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Nov. 4, 2025
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Steve Kerr Announces $1M Gift to Fund College of Humanities Study Abroad
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 million to support study abroad scholarships for students in the University of Arizona College of Humanities.Read More
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Nov. 25, 2019
Congratulations to the Fall 2019 COH Graduate Student Research Grant awardees!
Fall 2019 COH Graduate Student Research Grant Awardees
Chen Chen and Yuwei Wang
East Asian Studies
Project: A Longitudinal Learner Corpus of…
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Nov. 25, 2019
Congratulations to the 2019-20 COH Faculty Research Grant awardees!
2019-20 COH Faculty Research Grant Awardees
Rae Dachille
Religious Studies and Classics, East Asian Studies
Project: Nuancing “Appropriation” and “Soft Power”:…
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Nov. 25, 2019
Two College of Humanities faculty members received the University of Arizona’s Global Excellence Awards for 2019.
Robert Côté, Director of the Writing Skills Improvement Program, was recognized with the Award for Excellence in Global…
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Nov. 21, 2019
The University of Arizona’s Center for Digital Humanities, in partnership with The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, is being awarded a $175,000 grant to create high-resolution, three-dimensional scans of art and cultural …
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Nov. 19, 2019
The Humanities Seminars Program honored four University of Arizona professors with the annual Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award.
Ted Buchholz, Richard Poss, Greg Sakall and Steve Smith were honored at the November…
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Nov. 7, 2019
The Artistic Activism After Atrocity project examines how post-atrocity societies remember and engage with past violence, particularly the role of art in changing minds and attitudes that can lead to meaningful reconciliation.
A University of…
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Oct. 25, 2019
The University of Arizona ranks 30th in the world and 9th among U.S. public universities in arts and humanities, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Global Universities.”
Overall, the UA ranked No. 85 out of 1,500 higher…
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Oct. 9, 2019
In his new book, Takashi Miura, Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, analyzes a category of Japanese divinities known as “yonaoshi gods” and their place in early modern Japan.
The expression yonaoshi is often…
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Oct. 9, 2019
The College of Humanities 2019 Young Professional Achievement Award will be presented to Dr. Megan Lisbeth Strang, who says her study of language and culture was foundational to her career as a pediatric audiologist.
After finishing her…
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Oct. 3, 2019
Annette Kolodny, an internationally prominent feminist scholar who served as dean of the UA’s College of Humanities from 1988 to 1993, has died. She was 78.
Kolodny was “a pioneer in the field of ecofeminism,” according to The New York…
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Oct. 2, 2019
By Nick Prevenas, University Communications
The University of Arizona is one of the world's top institutions for arts and humanities studies, according to Times Higher Education.
The university ranked No. 80 out of 536 colleges and universities…
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Oct. 2, 2019
The Bauhaus was founded in Germany in 1919, during the post-war period when the country was reinventing itself, and the broadly interdisciplinary school would become a profoundly influential force across the 20th century.
This fall, the UA…