Welcome to the Taft Research Center
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center provides competitive research support for tenure-track faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in ten departments within the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences: Anthropology; Economics; English and Comparative Literature; German Studies; History; Mathematical Sciences; Philosophy; Political Science; Romance Languages and Literatures; and Sociology.
Our mission is to promote scholarly research through fellowships and awards; foster critical conversations across disciplines; create and sustain an intellectual community for the exchange of ideas; and support lectures, conferences, seminars, study groups, and symposia in the Taft disciplines. Above all, we hope to fulfill and further Annie Sinton Taft's own vision of sustaining a "concentration of interest in the development of ideas."
In 1930, Annie Sinton Taft endowed the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund in honor of her late husband. Today, members of the Taft family serve as trustees of the endowment.
"A concentration of interest in the development of ideas." ~ Annie Sinton Taft