University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies Professor and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wu said he was thrilled to be named a fellow and called the honor a "gratifying moment that comes after so many years of hard work and research."
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Lillian Gorman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is awarded the university’s 2023 Mentoring Future Scholars Award.
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University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies Professor and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wu said he was thrilled to be named a...
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In a new paper published in a joint issue of the ADE/ADFL Bulletin on the Public Humanities, Alain-Philippe Durand and Ken S. McAllister describe a vision for humanities education centered on what they call “Contrarian Entrepreneurial Humanists.”
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From FORGE, a remodeled 1929 Montgomery Ward building in the heart of downtown Tucson, to the geodesic domes of Biosphere 2, the inaugural Urban Humanities Network “(Un)Conference” will draw close to a hundred scholars, practitioners & community...
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In celebration of Black History Month, the College of Humanities is spotlighting faculty, staff and students. This week, meet Brittney Crawford, Internship and Engagement Coordinator and Lecturer in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities.
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With a deep commitment to literary arts and languages and world-renowned experts and literary translators among the faculty, the College of Humanities was a natural partner for the American Literary Translators Association.
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The University of Arizona has received a $3 million grant to connect distance students and underserved communities across Southern Arizona with enhanced broadband access and technology, as well as educational and workforce development programs.
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A generation ago, the local chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society published a collection of recipes, family stories and historical details spanning a century of Black life in Tucson.
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A project to develop online training for police officers about the relationship between cultural memory, civil and human rights, and atrocity recovery and prevention has been awarded the Dorrance Dean’s Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism.
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Aiming to create a more vibrant and dynamic approach to literature, a new course in development will connect students with an array of analytical and interpretative tools, including films, digital mapping, sociopolitical and environmental data, and...
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For about 12 years in the middle of the 14th century, an anonymous writer from Germany lived in Cairo, producing a detailed text about the Muslim world.
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Two faculty projects in the College of Humanities have been awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The awards, announced Jan. 10, are among $28.1 million in grants for 204 humanities projects across the country.
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Richard Shelton, a longtime University of Arizona professor and renowned writer known as the poet laureate of the Sonoran Desert, passed away Nov. 29. He was 89.
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Dorrance Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is pleased to announce the recipients of the College of Humanities 2022 Helen H. Chatfield Awards.
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A one-time baseball prospect who followed his calling into the priesthood and then into academia, Dr. Robert A. Burns is remembered as a professor who dedicated 45 years to making the world a better place through education and understanding, with...
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