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Silos are out. Integration is in. And the humanities are here to stay. 
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Congratulations to the 2021-22 COH Teaching and Outreach Grant awardees! Jacqueline Barrios Assistant Professor, Public and Applied Humanities Project: Urban Humanities Un-Conference: Building a Tucson Network for Justice-Driven Spatial...
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A project that uses digital mapping to layer additional data sets an offer new insights into The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca and has earned Dr.
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A project that weaves together Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield with a field study of historic Tucson locations has earned Dr. Jacqueline Barrios one of two Dorrance Dean’s Awards for Opening the Canon.  
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The inaugural recipient of the Dorrance Dean’s Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism is Dr. Kristy L. Slominski, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies.  
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With the support of a $5.4 million gift commitment from alumni Jacquelynn and Bennett Dorrance, the College of Humanities is launching the Fearless Inquiries Project, a strategic set of initiatives designed to make the University of Arizona a leader...
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Congratulations to the 2021-22 COH Faculty Research Grant awardees!  Ana Carvalho Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Project: Voices from the Margins: A Language Documentary Chronicling Portuguese Speakers in Uruguay Erika Gault Assistant Professor,...
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An NEH-funded project centered on the challenges of soldiers returning home after war will present a series of public discussions this week.  
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Dorrance Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is pleased to announce Dr. Caleb Simmons as the next Faculty Director of the Bachelor of General Studies program in the College of Humanities. Simmons is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the...
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The University of Arizona will participate in a three-year, $5-million grant-funded project that unites 16 universities in a national initiative to support Latinx humanities studies. The University of Illinois Chicago is the lead institution of the...
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While most scholars focus on their singular specialty, Sonia Colina has long found herself drawn to both the formal aspects of language structure and the practical work of translating between languages.  
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For Robert Stephan, summers mean archaeological field research in Greece, working on a project trying to understand the collapse of civilizations at the end of the Bronze Age.  
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Professors Kátia da Costa Bezerra and Cynthia White have been awarded grant funding from AZ Humanities for the Listening to Other Voices project, a celebration of world literature featuring multiple events over two days in February.  Bezerra,...
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The Center for Digital Humanities at The University of Arizona and Snobal, a technology company developing cloud enterprise virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software, are the successful recipients of a Facebook Reality Labs (FRL)...
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Two College of Humanities professors are among 24 UA employees selected to participate in the 2021-22 Academic Leadership Institute. 
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The Arizona State Museum (ASM) and two College of Humanities centers – the Poetry Center and Center for Digital Humanities – have received a $190,953 Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a...