The Humanities and Human Flourishing Project is made possible by deep, sustained, interdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers around the world. We offer our whole-hearted thanks to the following scholars, practitioners, and organizations, who have been and continue to be essential to our work.

 
 

COLLABORATING SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS

 
 

William D. Adams, Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University

Dudley Andrew, Yale University

David Armitage, Harvard University

Mia Bay, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Beckerman, New York University

Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University

Lisa Biggs, Brown University

Nathalie Bondil, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Arielle Bonneville-Roussy, Roehampton University

Norman M. Bradburn, University of Chicago

Melvin Butler, University of Miami

Beth Blum, Harvard University

Elvira Brattico, Aarhus University

Eva Caldera, Phi Beta Kappa

Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University

Andy Campbell, University of Southern California

Alisa Carse, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

Faya Causey, The Getty Research Institute

Enrique Martinez Celaya, University of Southern California

Anna Celenza, Georgetown University

Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary

Anjan Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania

Joseph Ciarrochi, Australian Catholic University

Jonathan Coopersmith, Curtis Institute of Music

Pamela Cooper-White, Union Theological Seminary

Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Croasmun, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University

Olena Helen Darewych, Martin Luther University College & Wilfrid Laurier University

Elliot Boskwick Davis, Norton Museum of Art

Todd Decker, Washington University in St. Louis

Dan Edelstein, Stanford University

Jim English, University of Pennsylvania

Bracha Ettinger, The European Graduate School

Nicole Eustace, New York University

Julie J. Exline, Case Western Reserve University

Annegret Fauser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marcia Ferguson, University of Pennsylvania

Steven Fine, Yeshiva University

Kelsey Procter Finley, Claremont Graduate University

Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh

Daniel Fisher, National Humanities Alliance

Kaitlin Fitzgerald, University at Buffalo

Angus Fletcher, The Ohio State University

John Fletcher, Louisiana State University

Barbara L. Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lori Gallegos de Castillo, Texas State University

Fabian Gander, University of Zurich

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, New College of the Humanities

Thalia R. Goldstein, George Mason University

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, King’s College London

Melanie Green, University at Buffalo

Anne M. Greenhalgh, University of Pennsylvania

Beatrice Gurwitz, National Humanities Alliance

Jennifer Hansen, St. Lawrence University

Dan Haybron, St. Louis University

Kristen Hayes, George Mason University

Louise Hayes, University of Melbourne

Maria Heim, Amherst College

Wendy Heller, Princeton University

Scott Herring, Indiana University

Rachel Hershberg – University of Washington, Tacoma 

Lois Hetland, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Cecily Erin Hill – National Humanities Alliance

Selma Holo, University of Southern California

Alan Howarth, Baron of Newport

Kelly Howe, Loyola University Chicago

Camille Kandiko Howson, Imperial College London

Erin Hurley, McGill University

John Lachs, Vanderbilt University

Alexandra Lamont, Keele University

Stephen Legari, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Laura Lodewyck, North Central College

Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania

Janet Lyon, Pennsylvania State University

 

Kate Ingold, Independent Artist, Los Angeles

Justin Ivory, University of Minnesota

Edward Jacobs, Edward Jacobs Design

David James, University of Birmingham

Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University

Mark Johnson, University of Oregon

Cathy Kelley, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Yoed N. Kenett, Israel Institute of Technology

David Kidd, Harvard University

Stephen Kidd, National Humanities Alliance

Laura A. King, University of Missouri, Columbia

Evan M. Kleiman, Rutgers University

Cher Knight, Emerson College

Irwin Kula, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

James E. Maddux, George Mason University

Alejandro Madrid, Cornell University

Scott Magelssen, University of Washington

Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University

Neal H. Mayerson, VIA Institute on Character

Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania

Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College

José Medina, Northwestern University

Michelle Moody-Adams, Columbia University

Mary Clark Moschella, Yale Divinity School

Scott Muir, National Humanities Alliance

Jeanne Nakamura, Claremont Graduate University

Jeffrey Nesteruk, Franklin & Marshall College

Ryan Niemiec, VIA Institute on Character

Keith Oatley, University of Toronto

Shigehiro Oishi, Columbia University

Ivonne Chand O’Neal, MUSE Research

Kenneth I. Pargament, Bowling Green State University

Faye Reiff-Pasarew, Mount Sinai

Patrice Petro, University of California Santa Barbara

Dana Polan, New York University

Sonya Posmentier, New York University

Leela Prasad, Duke University

Leah Price, Harvard University

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers University

Shana Redmond, University of California, Los Angeles

Willibald Ruch, University of Zurich

Mark Runco, Southern Oregon University

David Russell, Oxford University

John Sadler, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Baljinder Sahdra, Australian Catholic University

Noah Salomon, Carleton College

Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University

Claire Schneider, C.S.1 Curatorial Projects

James Schulman, American Council of Learned Societies

Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College

Ellen Scott, University of California, Los Angeles

Martin E.P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania

Harriet Senie, City College of New York

Gwynn Shanks, Colby College

Yerin Shim, Chungnam National University

Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

Murray Smith,University of Kent

Peter Stearns, George Mason University

Peter Struck, University of Pennsylvania

John Stuhr, Emory University

Anna Sverdlik, Université du Québec à Montréal

Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota

Piercarlo Valdesolo, Claremont McKenna College

Robert J. Vallerand, Université du Québec à Montréal

Hoda Vaziri, University of North Texas

Katherine Vrooman, Claremont Graduate University

Jessica Wahman, Emory University

Steve Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania

Saranne Weller, St George's University of London

Erin Westgate, University of Florida

Patricia White, Swarthmore College

Alexis N. Wilkinson, University of Missouri, Columbia

Stacy Wolf, Princeton University

Serena Wong, Bowling Green State University

Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Arizona State University

Katie Wright-Bevans, Keele University

Kulapat Yantrasast, wHY Los Angeles

Harvey Young, Boston University

Jeffrey Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis

 
 

COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

 
 

Barnes Foundation

Founder Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) understood that art had the power to improve minds and transform lives. He chartered the Barnes Foundation in 1922 to teach people from all walks of life how to look at art. Over three decades, he collected some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, including works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. He displayed them alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork. To better serve Dr. Barnes’s educational mission, the Foundation moved to Center City Philadelphia in 2012, where its vastly expanded program reaches 12,000 Philadelphia school children every year. In its award-winning Parkway home, Dr. Barnes’s final 1951 arrangement of the collection is still on view, enhanced by a wide variety of special exhibitions, public programs, and classes for adult learners. Community and family programs are offered on-site and in neighborhoods throughout the city, honoring Dr. Barnes’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity.

 
 
 

City of Adelaide

Adelaide is a city where the health and wellbeing of people is paramount. When Colonel Light designed the city in 1837, his dream was to design a city that could grow in a sustainable way, while continuously supporting and enriching the wellbeing and quality of life of its residents. Part of its strategic plan includes that city of Adelaide residents will have wellbeing above the global average.

 
 
 

Curtis Institute

The Curtis Institute of Music educates and trains exceptionally gifted young musicians to engage a local and global community through the highest level of artistry. With a small student body of about 175, Curtis ensures that each young musician receives an education of unparalleled quality, distinguished by a “learn by doing” philosophy and personalized attention from a faculty that includes a high proportion of actively performing musicians. A tuition-free policy ensures that talent and artistic promise are the only considerations for admission. Curtis students hone their craft through more than 200 orchestra, opera, and solo and chamber music offerings each year and programs that bring arts access and education to the community. This real-world training allows these extraordinary young musicians to join the front rank of performers, composers, conductors, and musical leaders, making a profound impact on music onstage and in their communities. To learn more about the Curtis Institute, click here.

 
 
 

International Positive Psychology Association

Positive psychology is an exciting field of inquiry that has captured the interest of thousands of researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world. This burgeoning area of psychology focuses on the study and practice of the positive emotions, strengths, and virtues that make individuals and institutions thrive. The International Positive Psychology Association aims to 1) promote the science of positive psychology and its research-based applications, 2) facilitate collaboration among researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of positive psychology around the world and across academic disciplines, and 3) share the findings of positive psychology with the broadest possible audience. IPPA has thousands of members from more than 70 countries.

 
 
 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Founded in 1870, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, stands on the historic homelands of the Massachusetts people, a site which has long served as a place of meeting and exchange among different nations. The MFA opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation's centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. Over the next several years, the collection and number of visitors grew exponentially, and in 1909 the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. Today the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art. We welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs.

 
 
 

National Endowment for the Arts

Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the Arts Endowment supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. The Humanities and Human Flourishing Project has been designated a NEA Research Lab through June 2022.

 
 
 

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PMA) is Philadelphia’s art museum, housing a world-renowned collection in a landmark building in a place that welcomes everyone. They bring the arts to life, inspiring visitors—through scholarly study and creative play—to discover the spirit of imagination that lies in everyone. They connect people with the arts in rich and varied ways, making the experience of the Museum surprising, lively, and always memorable. The PMA committed to inviting visitors to see the world—and themselves—anew through the beauty and expressive power of the arts. The PMA was founded in 1876 with the fundamental belief that the arts are vital to the well-being of individuals and communities - “for the improvement and enjoyment of the people of the Commonwealth."

 
 
 

Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania

The mission of the Positive Psychology Center is to promote research, training, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

 
 
 

Purdue University

Purdue University’s College of Health and Human Sciences Our college prepares scholars, develops leaders, translates theory to practice, and advances knowledge of human behavior, health, and quality of life. Its key characteristics include: 1) an interdisciplinary environment for discovery, learning, and engagement; 2) faculty and graduates who are leaders in the health and human sciences; 3) research that advances knowledge and is responsive to ever-changing conditions; 4) applications of knowledge to improve people's well-being; and 5) engagement with diverse constituencies and communities to address a broad spectrum of human needs.

 
 
 

Shawnee Institute

The Shawnee Institute is a global hub for well-being science, education, and social impact. Its mission is to cultivate creativity, innovation, and the positive effects of well-being on the human condition; train individuals to lead productive, flourishing lives; educate global well-being professionals, researchers, and practitioners; and bring together world-class leaders and scholars to address critical global issues.

 
 
 

Templeton Religion Trust

Templeton Religion Trust (TRT) is a global charitable trust chartered by Sir John Templeton in 1984 with headquarters in Nassau, The Bahamas. TRT has been active since 2012 and supports projects as well as storytelling related to projects seeking to enrich the conversation about religion. Their aim is to improve the well-being of individuals and societies through spiritual growth and an ever-improving understanding of spiritual realities and spiritual information.

 
 
 

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania’s West Philadelphia campus reflects its rich heritage—a heritage closely bound with the birth of the United States—boasting more than 180 buildings and many notable landmarks, including the nation’s first student union and first double-decker college football stadium. The 190 research centers and institutes on campus also reflect the University’s innovative, civic-minded, and pragmatic creator: More than 250 years after Ben Franklin broke new ground in founding Penn, its faculty, students, and alumni continue to make breakthroughs in research, scholarship, and education. Its many subsequent “firsts” include the world’s first collegiate business school (Wharton, 1881); the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer (ENIAC, 1946); and the first woman president of an Ivy League institution (Judith Rodin, inaugurated in 1994); as well as the first woman Ivy League president to succeed another woman (Amy Gutmann, inaugurated in 2004). From campus walkways engraved with Franklin’s words of wisdom to the University’s most important strategic initiatives such as Penn Compact 2022, the President’s Engagement Prizes, and the President’s Innovation Prizes, Penn continues to educate and inspire future leaders to move our now-global society forward.