Between 2007 and 2016, the FHI was the administrative base of the CHCI, an international membership organization for university and college-based humanities centers, institutes, and interdisciplinary programs in the humanities with a significant research component. Past FHI Directors Srinivas Aravamudan and Ian Baucom each served as CHCI President. CHCI operations relocated to the Center for the Humanities at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in January 2017.