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The Director of the Centre for the Humanities is Prof. Rosi Braidotti. Further information on the organisation of the CfH is available under Organisation.

About the Centre for the Humanities

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The Centre for the Humanities (CfH) of Utrecht University is the platform for pioneering work, innovative research and research training activities. The CfH aims to bundle the Faculty of Humanities' most innovative and excellent research and to present it to the outside world. This way a broader non-academic audience can become aware of the relevance of the humanities.

With the question 'What is Human about the Humanities?' the CfH aims to investigate different aspects of the fundamental categories within the humanities, in an interdisciplinary perspective. The CfH actively cooperates with the leading research institutes of the Faculty, the City of Utrecht and the Treaty of Utrecht organisation. For more information, visit www.uu.nl/cfh.

About Rosi Braidotti

Prof. Rosi Braidotti has been appointed University Professor by the Utrecht University Executive Board in effect as of 1 March 2011. Braidotti was previously Faculty Professor and Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies in the Faculty of Humanities. She was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht University and served as the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. She is at present the Director of the Centre for the Humanities. In her role as University Professor, Braidotti hopes to further expand the interdisciplinary function of this Centre, emphasizing the combination of academic excellence and social responsibility.

Braidotti’s publications include: Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2006), Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2002) and Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (Columbia University Press: New York, 1994).

In 2007 she was awarded an Honorary Degree in philosophy by the University of Helsinki and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy in 2009. Notably Braidotti was knighted in the Order of the Nederlandse Leeuw, awarded by H.R.M. the Queen of the Netherlands in 2005.

For more information, visit http://www.rosibraidotti.com/