Humanities Division boasts 5 Distinguished Teaching Award winners
Daria Bahtina, Seonkyung Jeon, Lauri Mattenson, Javier Patiño Loira and Katarina Yuan were recognized for their excellence in the classroom
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Archaeology meets social media literacy in an innovative Fiat Lux seminar
Lara Fabian developed the course in response to the growing spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the ancient world
Classics chair David Blank to keynote 2026 Humanities commencement
A scholar of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Blank has been a UCLA faculty member for four decades
Ursula Heise elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The English professor explores how storytelling can influence what we know about the environment and how we act on it.
How Arabic helped shape everyday English
Kinda Al Rifae says the language has traveled alongside ideas, profoundly influencing the vocabulary of modern life.
High schoolers, community elders come together to explore artifacts from Vietnamese refugees
The event, organized by Kelly Nguyen, brought together Westminster High students, members of Orange County’s Little Saigon community and UCLA scholars.
Alexandra Minna Stern elected to Society of American Historians
Among her award-winning books is “Eugenic Nation,” which examines the broad reach of eugenics in the U.S. throughout the 20th century.
On Artemis II launch day, Alex Purves waxes poetic about the moon
The classics professor connects today’s lunar mission to questions that inspired ancient Greek scientists.
Susan Kresin honored for excellence in teaching
Although she has taught Russian and Czech at UCLA for 30 years, the senior lecturer says she has never run out of new things to discover.
To be, or not to be, misunderstood
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Distinguished Professor Robert Watson writes that the famous line doesn’t mean what ‘Hamnet’ thinks it means.