PHR Professor Accepted to Prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar Program

Associate Professor of Politics and Human Rights, Dr. Manolo Estavillo, has been accepted to the NEH “Maps in the Digital Age” summer seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago this summer.

The four-week program, set to begin June 10, will focus on how map research in the humanities, and map literacy itself, is being transformed by the challenges and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. The seminar will be comprised of reading, discussion, map study, and research immersed at historic Chicago library, The Newberry. Scholars will utilize the facility’s extensive and renowned collection of historic map documents and other humanities materials.