Indigenous people are partners in this cultural conservation research
A paper by Thiago Puglieri and colleagues calls on conservation scholars to rethink the materials they study and to credit Indigenous creators as collaborators, not subjects.
O povo indígena é parceiro nesta pesquisa de conservação cultural
O estudo liderado por Thiago Puglieri, da UCLA, incorpora contribuições significativas da comunidade Tikuna da região amazônica.
Susan Slyomovics receives American Anthropological Association book award
A reviewer called it a “masterful piece of work — theoretically adept, ethnographically attuned, moving and engagingly written.”
Minh-Thu Nguyen is driven by curiosity
The ELTS staff member and UCLA alumna is pursuing a master’s in English literature at UC Irvine.
4 Humanities faculty among winners of inaugural UCLA global grants
Stephanie Bosch Santana, Jennifer Jung-Kim, Barbara Fuchs and Victoria Mateu received awards to support their teaching and research.
‘We don’t have to leave our communities behind when we enter academic spaces’
Nat Escobedo, a UCLA senior, is researching how artists in the Inland Empire play an important role as community-builders.
ELTS students pen ‘Letters to the Future’ to commemorate International Education Week
“The project was conceived as a multilingual ‘time capsule,’” said Nina Bjekovic, the department’s director of language programs.
A Russian language class project takes center stage during L.A. theater festival
Students in a course taught by senior lecturer Susan Kresin translated a contemporary drama for a reading at the Odyssey theater.
Refocusing the narrative around a larger-than-life literary figure
Senior Brinn Wallin says her research on Sylvia Plath is “the most prized part of my years as an undergraduate.”
He wrote the book on Michael Jordan’s cultural influence
Adam Bradley, a UCLA professor of English and African American studies, provided the text for a new volume celebrating the basketball great’s enduring influence.