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Thursday
The last thing Melissa Fitch had ever imagined she would be doing on her sabbatical was fleeing an angry 300-pound Antarctic fur seal on the remote South Georgia island near Antarctica. As a University Distinguished Professor of Latin American…
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Tuesday
Wildcat legend Steve Kerr's international upbringing sparked a curiosity about the world, a love of travel and a lifelong embrace of cultural diversity. Now, he and his wife Margot, also a U of A graduate, have made a gift commitment of $1…
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Tuesday
The College of Humanities community is profoundly saddened by the loss of two of its students in a traffic collision Thursday night near the U of A campus. Sophia Akimi Troetel, a double major in Spanish and Psychology, and Josiah Patrick Santos,…
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Nov. 2, 2025
Published in the Arizona Daily Star, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025By Steve KerrI recently turned 60, which means it’s been almost 40 years since I graduated from the University of Arizona. (Time flies when you’re getting old….or something like that.) Those…
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Sept. 30, 2025
The University of Arizona is ranked in the top five universities in the nation for producing graduates with foreign language degrees! According to a recent analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the U of A confers the fifth most…
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Sept. 30, 2025
The humanities are everywhere. It’s a message that Alain-Philippe Durand, Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities, hopes to share with the university and campus communities during this year’s Tucson Humanities Festival, with a series of…
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Sept. 11, 2025
Courtney Friesen, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies & Classics, has received the Frank W. Beare Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.Presented at the society’s annual meeting in June in Toronto, the Beare…
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Sept. 10, 2025
Grace Faerber, who was the College of Humanities’ Outstanding Senior for Spring 2020, earning a degree in East Asian Studies and Global Studies, is now President of the DC Alumni Chapter. Known as the Capitol Cats, the group…
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Sept. 10, 2025
Matt Mars, Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Public & Applied Humanities, has won the 2025 Ted K. Bradshaw Outstanding Research Award from the Community Development Society. Presented at the CDS Annual Conference on July 8 in…
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Sept. 9, 2025
Phyllis Taoua, Professor in the Department of French & Italian, has been elected to serve as Vice President of the African Literature Association. The largest association of its kind, the African Literature Association is an independent non…
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Sept. 9, 2025
The inaugural recipients of the College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence are Antonia Kampe in the Department of German Studies, Taehyeong Kim in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and Yuyu Zhang in the Department of…
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Sept. 3, 2025
Peter Ecke spends part of his evenings studying Polish, preparing to embark in April for four months as a Fulbright Scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. A Professor of German Studies, much of Ecke’s teaching concerns learning new…