Morris Appointed as Director of Humanities Institute at UW
Published June 11, 2025
University of Wyoming history assistant professor, author and Fulbright scholar Dr. Melissa Morris has been appointed the next director of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research (WIHR) at UW.
WIHR promotes, supports and showcases humanities scholarship at UW and throughout the state and world. The institute supports individual and collaborative research projects of UW faculty, students and staff as an engine that fosters interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Morris’s appointment was the culmination of an extensive review and planning process that began in late 2024. At that time, UW’s College of Arts and Sciences organized a highly successful humanities summit; WIHR then conducted a five-year review of its activities and accomplishments. A review committee made up of internal and external distinguished researchers in humanities summarized the review in a report.
