Humanities War & Peace Initiative

The Humanities War and Peace Initiative (HWPI) fosters the study of war and peace from the perspective of scholars in the Humanities, in conversation with colleagues from around Columbia and the world. 

Generously supported by President Bollinger, this initiative aims to encourage creative thinking about the critical topic of war, with an ultimate goal of perpetuating a more peaceful world. 

Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grants

HWPI Grant Winners

The HWPI supports a broad range of activities, including individual scholarship, new scholarly collaborations, projects and events within existing interdisciplinary and collaborative structures, teaching, community outreach and programming, performance and exhibition, and ongoing dialogue in other forms.

Graduate Student Research Grant Winners

Each spring, the Division of Humanities in the Arts and Sciences awards summer research grants for graduate student projects under the Humanities War and Peace Initiative. Spring applications are due by 5:00pm on March 9, 2020.

Upcoming Calls for Proposals

This Spring 2020 is the final call for proposals for the Humanities War and Peace Initiative grants.  The spring proposal, with a deadline of March 9, 2020, is now open.  

Theater Of War

Theater of War will present readings of
Sophocles’ Ajax, translated and directed by Bryan Doerries,
to Columbia University Core students and the wider community on 
November 6 & 7, 2019.  

Individual tickets and reservations for classes and groups
will be available here this September.