Tag Archive for: UCLA Humanities

Uri McMillan honored for his book on black feminist art and performance

The Modern Language Association of America recently announced…

New exhibition at UCLA celebrates history of Boyle Heights

In line with its mission to uncover and preserve the rich history…

New book from UCLA’s Ursula Heise examines the conservationist thrall and narratives of extinction

It all began with the adoption of a Jardine’s parrot in the…

Anthropologist brings European refugee crisis to the classroom

Students in two global studies classes at UCLA this quarter will…

Literature and film help teach students to understand the brain

What can Shakespeare, Cervantes, Proust, and even contemporary…

Charlene Villaseñor Black is as good as gold as recipient of top faculty prize

Within the warm, terra-cotta-colored walls of her office in Dodd…

UCLA receives $1.65 million from Mellon Foundation to continue urban humanities program

By Margaret MacDonald   A $1.65 million grant from…

Professor collaborates with Getty Museum to bring 15th-century manuscript to the public

UCLA professor and recently named Guggenheim Fellow Zrinka Stahuljak…

First Director of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies at UCLA gives major lecture on Israel Independence Day

By: Todd Presner, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, UCLA Alan D.…

Jared Diamond: A dispassionate look at religion over the course of history

Jared Diamond, UCLA’s Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of geography…