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Established in 1976, the  (CIH) fosters advanced study and research in a broad range of subject areas. We are multi-disciplinary and multi-faculty orientated. We support research in traditional humanities disciplines such as languages and literature, history, religious studies and philosophy as well as in philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, arts, sciences and professional studies. The humanities are not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines, but as forms of study that examine what is human – typically guided by literature, history, social and physical settings, artifacts, visual and performing arts. 

For the 2026-27 academic year, four annual fellowships were awarded to outstanding scholars to pursue a particular research project, and two graduate student fellowships were awarded to students to support the final phase of their PhD dissertations. All fellows maintain a regular presence at the Institute, share their research in an in-house lecture and involve themselves in the community of scholars working at the Institute. Resident fellows also present their research as part of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Lecture Series. 

We are delighted to announce the 2026-27 CIH Fellowship recipients: 

• Jessalynn Keller, Making the Internet Feminist: A Cultural History of the Aughts Feminist Blogosphere

  2026-27 Naomi Lacey Resident Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media & Film

• Alexandra Giancarlo, "The strength...is going to be a part of me always": Indigenous Healing Walks and the Legacy of Canada's Indian Residential School System

  2026-27 McCready Emerging Fellow, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology 

• Wendi Adamek, Animal, Vegetable, Ephemeral: Phenomenologies of Copoiesis

  2026-27 Annual Fellow, Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies, Department of Classics and Religion

• Michael Ullyot, The Mind's Eye: Developing a Taxonomy of Filmed Shakespeare

  2026-27 Annual Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of English 

• Melissa Glass, Major George Strangways versus John Fussell, Attorney at Law: Property, Family, and Murder in the Wake of the Seventeenth Century English Civil Wars

  2026-27 Frances Spratt Graduate Student Fellow, PhD Candidate, Department of History

• Lyla Patricia Campos Díaz, Community Engagement as a Strategy for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Indigenous Heritage Conservation in Highland Chiapas, Mexico

  2026-27 Graduate Student Fellow, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology