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March 10, 2017
Congratulations to this year's COH Teaching and Outreach Grants Awardees!
Straight to the Goal!
Spring 2017 Teaching and Outreach Grants Awardees:
Naomi Caffee
Dept. of Russian and Slavic Studies
Project: Russia and the Muslim World: an…
March 8, 2017
COH Dean Alain-Philippe Durand speaks with ShareAmerica about hip-hop and its ongoing international evolution, describing a powerful form of expression with universal themes.
Read the full story here.
March 3, 2017
Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is very happy to announce Dr. Nick Ferdinandt, Dr. Sonia Colina, and Dr. Robert Côté as the next directors of the Center for English as a Second Language (CESL), the National Center for Interpretation (NCI), and the…
Feb. 24, 2017
Are you a science fiction fan? Add issues related to race, gender, class, and socially prescribed identities and you soon have “Afrofuturism”. Read more from Africana Studies Assistant Professor Bryan Carter as he describes the movement and how it…
Feb. 23, 2017
Video game archivists are divided on how to protect the medium’s history, but they know we need to do it now.
By Jacob Brogan
Ask someone about their earliest memories of playing video games and they’ll often tell you about the physical experience…
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Feb. 21, 2017
The Poetry Center is part of a national coalition of poetry organizations working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.
Twenty…
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Feb. 21, 2017
College of Humanities Prof. Melissa Fitch, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, has been selected as a University Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious teaching recognition at the University of Arizona. She joins a very impressive list of…
Feb. 13, 2017
The College is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 SILLC Global Award. The recipients will receive funding in support of their study abroad pursuits in the summer of 2017 or in AY 2017-2018.
Daniel Fitzsimmons
Majors: East Asian Studies…
Feb. 3, 2017
Read the latest article by Dr. Alex Nava, Professor of Religious Studies in the College of Humanities, titled "A Theology of the Desert." It is excerpted from Dr. Rubio-Goldsmith's new book, Migrant Deaths in the Desert: La Vida No Vale Nada. The…
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Feb. 2, 2017
Hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash will make a special appearance at the University of Arizona as part of Black History Month events.
Sponsored by the UA College of Humanities' African Studies Program, Grandmaster Flash — considered one of the…
Humanities Faculty Speak About Upcoming Inauguration Day Teach-In and March for Unity and Solidarity
Jan. 18, 2017
KXCI Community Radio 91.3 FM Tucson spoke with University of Arizona faculty members Suzi Dovi, Phyllis Taoua and Denis Provencher about the upcoming Inauguration Day Teach-In and March for Unity and Solidarity. Listen here! https://kxci.org/2017/01…
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Jan. 17, 2017
The College is pleased to congratulate Professor Fabian Alfie, who just published “La donna taverna: La ballata delle due cognate ubriache” as part of a collection of essays for a conference held in June 2015, "La poesia italiana prima di Dante" (…