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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), through its Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington) recently announced the research focus of the next two-year module of the Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC).

Every summer, labs across campus and at JPL host undergraduates eager to hone their research skills. One such avenue for growth is the 10-week program known as SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships). Though most SURF students are future scientists and engineers, opportunities also arise in the humanities.

The annals of science fiction are filled with tales of creations turning against their masters: HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Skynet of the Terminator films, the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all: Frankenstein's monster.

The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations is pleased to welcome our research fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year, Rory Cox.

Jennifer Jahner, assistant professor of English and co-director of the current “Violence and Order” research module, talks about her research and the Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations in an interview for the Caltech Break Through campaign.

Susanna Throop, associate professor of history at Ursinus College, visits Caltech and The Huntington this spring as part of the Violence and Order research module of the Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC).

On January 20, 2017, the Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) held its first workshop, “Defining Violence: Texts and Methodologies,” to bring scholars together to explore foundational questions in the study of violence and social order. Part of the CHHC’s current research module, “Violence and Order Past and Present,” the workshop featured six distinguished guest speakers and a roundtable discussion.

The Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC), launched in the fall of 2016, brings scholars together across the institutions for a series of two-year multidisciplinary research modules, under the overall direction of Caltech professor of English and dean of undergraduate students Kevin Gilmartin and Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman, a political analyst known for his views on terrorism and insurgency, spoke on “The Rationality of Terrorism and Other Forms of Political Violence: Lessons from the Jewish Campaign in Palestine, 1944-1947.”

Cary Nederman, professor of political science at Texas A&M University, visited in November 2016 as part of the CHHC’s Violence and Order research module.