Triumph of the Humanities Departments

I am not a big fan of Prof. Fish (actually I think he confuses legalistic professional practices for academic rigor) but this essay is a good introduction to the seriousness of new fields of research integrating sciences and arts and humanities - not as a warm fuzzy idea, but as working research operations. The humanities are viewed here essentially as interpretive sciences, necessary to understand complex social and biological phenomena. 

Of particular interest here is the difficulty and necessity of representing time in the broad field of geography, and allowing, if you will permit me an ancient metaphor, the tree of knowledge to branch freely but coherently.

The Triumph of the Humanities