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May 10, 2018
College of Humanities Student Ambassadors assist the college in recruitment, events and serve as peer mentors to incoming students. Each year, the cohort includes some of the best and brightest students in the college. Dean Alain-Philippe Durand and…
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May 9, 2018
Bryan Carter, Director of the UA's Center for Digital Humanities, sees an opportunity for the UA to lead in technology and content development of virtual worlds.
In a new interview, Carter discussed virtual worlds, both in terms of fictional…
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May 7, 2018
Zy Mazza, a Religious Studies senior, is the recipient of the 2018 Humanities Matters Scholarship, with a winning essay arguing that the humanities have become more vital than ever in a world of rapidly advancing technology.
In his essay, Mazza…
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May 3, 2018
The UA’s National Center for Interpretation is awarding grants and tuition funding to five graduate students in the College of Humanities.
The Graduate Fellowships support individual students conducting research on translation and interpretation.…
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May 2, 2018
Congratulations to College of Humanities faculty and staff members who were honored for employment milestones at the UA’s 2018 Annual Service Awards Reception.
45 Year Awards
David Chisholm, German Studies
Alexander Dunkel, Russian and Slavic…
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April 23, 2018
Book lovers, collectors and librarians worldwide celebrate April 23 as World Book Day.
In designating a day to celebrate and promote the enjoyment of books and reading, UNESCO selected April 23 for its symbolic significance, as the date William…
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April 23, 2018
Dino Kadich (class of ‘18) is an Honors senior majoring in Geography and Africana Studies, with a minor in North Eastern and North African Studies. His hard work has culminated in him being named a 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholar. The scholarship he…
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April 16, 2018
Erika Gault, an assistant professor of Africana Studies, has been selected as a 2018 recipient of the Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant for Minority Scholars.
Gault’s award of $40,000 will fund research over the coming academic year as she…
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April 12, 2018
The College of Humanities is one of six institutions participating in the Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives grant. The overall goal is to give librarians, archivists, and curators better methodology for the preservation of digital…
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March 28, 2018
Edgard Ore-Giron, an instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, won the prestigious 2018 Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award.
Ore-Giron is the third consecutive College of Humanities faculty member to win the…
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March 13, 2018
Four College of Humanities students will receive scholarship funds to study abroad as winners of the 2018 SILLC Global Award.
Created in 2010 by Lehman Benson, UA associate professor of management who was then acting director of Africana Studies,…
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March 12, 2018
The UA Humanities Seminars Program summer courses feature subjects from Hopi archaeology to classical art to Shakespeare and international detective fiction.
Founded in 1984, the university’s premier adult education series has enrolled more than 21,…