91重口

Enriching the intellectual life of the college and community through the arts & humanities.

Founded in 2018, 91重口’s Tadler Center for the Humanities promotes the arts and humanities at the college and community level by:

• fostering public awareness and understanding of the humanities through program offerings that engage audiences at local, national, and international levels;
• supporting the core values of the humanities - including aesthetic exploration, intellectual inquiry, and historical understanding - through interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives; and 
• encouraging dialogue, creativity, and inquiry through the support of bold and innovative work by artists, writers, scholars, and students in the humanities.

The Tadler Center supports 91重口 faculty in all phases of their careers by providing funding for research, creative and interdisciplinary projects, guest speakers, innovative programming and an annual fellowship.

Tadler Fellowship

This award provides full time faculty members with a course release and research funding on a case by case basis. Proposals should reflect the Tadler Center’s core commitment to creativity, excellence, and inclusivity, as well as an active, innovative engagement with the humanities' at the college and in the broader community. We are particularly interested in projects that support our core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Tadler Center for the Humanities Course Releases
The Tadler Center for the Humanities will grant 1-2 course releases a year, based on the merit of the applications. The Tadler welcomes proposals from faculty who are working on long term projects, such as book length manuscripts.

For more details on how to apply, please contact Charlotte Gordon at cgordon@endicott.edu.

, Professor of Communication, and , Associate Professor of English, have won this year's Tadler Fellowships.

Sara's current project is an exploration of cultural and political history, centering on her 17th century home in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She will work with local historians and archaeologists to uncover the history of the people who lived in her house over the last three centuries and thematically connect the story of the past residents with those living in the house since 2010: Sara's own family.

Elizabeth Winthrop is using her fellowship to continue work on a novel which explores the ramifications of American foreign policy in the middle east, the rise and appeal of ISIS, and the aftermath of the group’s fall in 2019. The novel specifically tells the story of one of the many young western women who has traveled to Syria to join ISIS, and the fate of the child she has after the group has been defeated.

2025

October 15; Ethics and Aesthetics of A.I. presents Jonathan Fardy
Jonathan Fardy is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at Idaho State University. His research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present.

October 9; Writing Memoir, Writing History with Martha S. Jones
Professor Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, will talk about her new book The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.

October 1; Play as Community Care with Gloucester School Resource Officers
This 90-minute symposium explores two unique extracurricular programs, SRO_Gaming and Youth Anglers, created by Gloucester's School Resource Officers.

September 25; The Underground Railroad with Brittany Walls-Miles
Brittany Walls-Miles is a 5th-generation descendant of John and Jane Walls, freedom seekers whose interracial love story defied the odds.

April 8; Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is a seasoned leader, public policy and public affairs expert, national voice on pandemic response, and distinguished academic and author.

February 27; Laugh it Out III: A Comedy Show. Seriously.
Join award-winning comedian Bethany Van Delft as she hosts a night of stand up comedy.

2024

Writer-in-Residence Program
In the Fall 2024 semester the Tadler Center will pilot our Writer-in-Residence program with local artist and storyteller Phoebe Potts. This new program will have both local and far-reaching impact–from nurturing the work of our talented student writers and enriching campus and community life to raising national awareness for 91重口’s growing creative writing program.

October 9; Bad News Makes Good Stories: A Presentation of the Tadler's Writer-in-Residence
Join Phoebe Potts for a masterclass in storytelling as she takes apart one of her true life stories.

October 3; Balla Kouyaté and Mike Block Band with special student collaboration
The culminating event of a two day residency with 91重口 and the Rockport Public, global Silk-Road ensemble musicians Balla Kouyaté and Mike Block will perform with their six piece band in the tradition of West African Djeli and modern fusion music.

April 11; Stephanie Land: Exploring Resilience in Pursuit of Dreams
Author Stephanie Land is coming to 91重口 to talk about her new memoir, Class

March 28; Brittany Perham
Poet Brittany Perham will read from her award winning book, Double Portrait

March 6; Finding Her Beat: Film & Discussion
A film screening of Finding Her Beat

February 13; January O'Neil
Poet January O'Neil will read from her new book, Glitter Road

2023

April 20; Kiese Laymon
MacArthur Fellow and award-winning author of the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and the genre-defying novel Long Division, will be speaking about his work, including his beststelling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir.

April 4; Carolyn Cooke
Author

March 28; January O'Neil & Alexandra Marvar
Emmett Till

February 8; Phoebe Potts: Too fat for China
Comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby.

2022

October 12; Laugh it Out III: Comedy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Bethany Van Delft hosts a comedian showcase about issues of race, queerness, and inclusion

September 29; Fish Tales, by the Gloucester Writers Center
students and professors tell their own personal stories on the theme "Song"

September 23; Fernande Tohme
economics and philosophy

September23; Julian Aguon and Joanna Kreilick, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists
speaks on the themes of climate change and environmental justice

September 12; Young Vo
discusses new book, The 5 Things I've Learned So Far

May 11; Elizabeth Matelski awarded Tadler Fellowship

April 21; Imani Perry
discusses new book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

April 12; Alex Gino
Part of 91重口’s inaugural PRIDE celebration, reads from new book, Melissa

March 30; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classes

March 1; January Gill O’Neil and Alexandra Marvar
Emmett Till

2021

April 15; Nancy Sherman
speaks on her new book Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

2020

October 6; Kate Bolick
discusses her new book Spinster

February 18; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classes

2019

October 15; Phil DeLoria
delivered a lecture on "The American Indian in American Popular Culture”

February 28; Jill Lepore
staff writer for The New Yorker and Harvard historian, discussed "The Rise and Fall of the Fact"

2018

November 8; Charlotte Gordon
Tadler Center inaugural event/lecture on Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

October 9; Kate Bolick
discussed Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own