Welcome to the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute at Saint Anselm College. Established in 2018 with a generous gift from Robert and Beverly Grappone, this Institute represents several years of thought and planning by Saint Anselm faculty who seek to affirm and invigorate the College’s 128 year-old commitment to humanistic studies as an integral part of a Catholic Liberal Arts Education.

Gary Bouchard, Ph.D. has been an active teacher and scholar in the English Department at Saint Anselm College since 1987. A specialist in the poetry of Early Modern England, he has taught a wide variety of courses in literature and rhetoric and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books. He has specialized for the past two decades on the life and work and influence of the sixteenth century priest and poet, Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595)

The man for whom the Grappone Humanities Institute is named was himself a model of the examined life that Socrates said was the only one worth living. Greg was young man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, a deep love of books, and a persistent engagement with the great ideas that have informed human existence. A resident of Concord, New Hampshire, he graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2004 as a Great Books major.

In January of 2019, the Humanities Institute launched a new Minor in Humanities that features team-taught, interdisciplinary courses with faculty from twelve different departments. Students enrolling in HU courses will be building upon their first year Conversatio seminar experiences where they examined life’s big questions with their classmates.

In cooperation with a dozen academic departments on campus, the Grappone Humanities Institute intends to offer a Minor Humanities beginning in the spring semester of 2019.