The Symposium will showcase four HASS researchers as they describe how they made successful pitches about why their HASS research mattered and garnered funding for their projects! Speakers will include: 

• Edda Fields-Black, Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. 

• Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh 

• Jeanne-Marie Laskas, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh 

• Erin Anderson, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh 

Attendees will learn from local funding organizations to understand what they found most intriguing and exciting to fund in various HASS research projects.