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July 5, 2018
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May 10, 2017
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…
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May 10, 2017
Dante Lauretta, a 1993 College of Humanities graduate who has captured global attention as principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission, is this year's recipient of the UA's Alumni Achievement Award.
Lauretta, who earned a …
May 2, 2017
Two College of Humanities students will represent the COH and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education.
In its 30th year, NCORE will take place May 30 through June 3 in Fort…
April 24, 2017
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton received his Ph.D. in American Culture and Ethnic Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016). He is…
April 10, 2017
The UA's David Soren, Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Classics, talks with The Atlantic about the surprising connection between baseball and vaudeville. Soren will teach a course about the Forgotten Stars of Vaudeville this summer as part of…
April 7, 2017
The Arizona Daily Wildcat reports on a COH-sponsored display of ritual Buddhist art:
As part of a religious studies expansion, the UA has brought three Buddhist monks to campus where they are currently creating a mandala from only colored…
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April 4, 2017
College of Humanities Dean Alain-Philippe Durand received the top faculty honor for 2016-2017 at the UA’s Visionary Leadership Awards Ceremony.
In his first year as Humanities Dean, Durand received the UA’s Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty…
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March 16, 2017
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University Communications
UA researcher Colleen Lucey explains that famed Russian authors of the 19th century reimagined prostitutes as martyrs. Click here to read the full article in UA…
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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:…
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…