Charolette Gordon

Welcome

Welcome to the Tadler Center for the Humanities. My name is Charlotte Gordon. I am a Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the author of six books.

Founded in 2018, the Tadler supports interdisciplinary work in the humanities through fellowships, programming, and special projects. In everything we do, we seek to represent a diverse range of voices and perspectives.

We hope to see you at one of this semester's upcoming events.

"I am struck by the impact that bringing in famous thinkers, performers, and authors has on our community—and how it can change our culture."
Charlotte Gordon
Distinguished Professor of Humanities

Upcoming Events at The Tadler Center for the Humanities

Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen

April 8, 2025
5 p.m.
Klebanoff Auditorium
Free tickets here

Danielle Allen is a seasoned leader, public policy and public affairs expert, national voice on pandemic response, and distinguished academic and author. Danielle’s work to make the world better for young people has taken her from teaching college and leading a $60 million university division to driving change as board chair for a $6 billion foundation, writing for the Washington Post, and most recently, to running for governor of Massachusetts. Currently, she serves as the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center.

Allen is also the author of several books addressing the broad history and personal significance of justice and democracy including Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Cuz: An American Tragedy, and, most recently, Justice by Means of Democracy.

Dahlia Lithwick

Tadler Center for the Humanities Presents: Dahlia Lithwick

Postponed until Fall 2025

Author Dahlia Lithwick is coming to Endicott to talk about the impact of the election on the Supreme Court. She will address women and the Court, and address the challenges of having civil conversations about difficult subjects.

Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributing analyst at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate Magazine - and, in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court.

Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis (2018). She was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court and how MeToo impacts federal judicial law clerks. Lithwick’s new book, Lady Justice, published by Penguin Press (September 2022), became an instant New York Times Bestseller.

More Information & Past Events

  • About

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

    Founded in 2018, Endicott’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.
  • Funding

    The Tadler Center supports Endicott 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 in the spring semester 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.
     
    Application and Review Process
    Faculty submit proposals by the deadline listed below that include: 

    1. a description of the faculty member’s project; 
    2. the faculty member’s goals; 
    3. a timeline for the project;
    4. an explanation of how the course release will benefit the faculty member and the college; 
    5. confirmation that the faculty member has consulted with their dean around the planned course release, should it be awarded; and
    6. confirmation that the faculty member has not received an ECFA professional development course release
      for the same semester. 

    Deadlines
    Proposals must be submitted no later than September 15 for the spring semester and February 15 for the fall semester. 

    Review Process
    A three-person committee, appointed by the director, will decide on the merits of the proposals. The committee will send their recommendations to the director, who will have the final say on the applications. If a proposal is approved by the director, the director will send the decision to the provost who will ensure that the proposed course release aligns with the goals of the college before granting final approval.

    Please refer to the Professional Development committee's document for tips on how to write a successful application.

    Apply Now

  • Fellowship Winners

    Sara Johnson Allen, Professor of Communication, and Elizabeth Winthrop, 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.

  • Past Events

    2025

    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 Endicott’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 Endicott College 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 Endicott 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 Endicott’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

Charlotte Gordon

A “Life-Changing” Gift to the Humanities

The Tadler Center for the Humanities recently received an anonymous $250,000 gift, which is helping Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Tadler Center Director, to bring luminaries like Stephanie Land to campus while fortifying a place for the arts at Endicott.

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