Cal Maritime Collaborates with Stanford Faculty on NEH-Funded Oceanic Humanities Program

(January 28, 2025)

Cal Maritime News

California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) is proud to be part of a new project supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This two-year effort, led by Stanford University, aims to develop an innovative Oceanic Humanities Program, with Cal Maritime helping to show how to integrate humanities scholarship with ocean science and maritime practice.

The project is led by Stanford University’s Margaret Cohen, the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, in the Department of English in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, and Fiorenza Micheli, the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Professor Colin Dewey, who leads the Department of Culture and Communication at Cal Maritime, is a key contributor to the initiative and will help bridge the humanities with ocean science and applied maritime studies.