The UCLA professor explains how ‘the beauty, diversity and fragility of life’ inspired her latest work By Lucy Berbeo | August 7, 2023 Harryette Mullen has a singular way of…
Zrinka Stahuljak (left) and Shannon Speed Jonathan Riggs | July 24, 2023 Professors Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a project…
Courtesy photo BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of humanities at the UCLA College, served as the commencement speaker for the 2023 humanities commencement ceremony. Stern said she was…
Courtesy of King-Kok Cheung BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI King-Kok Cheung, professor emeritus of English and Asian American studies at UCLA, received the Association for Asian American Studies lifetime achievement award late…
Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Sarah Beckmann, an assistant professor of Roman archaeology in the classics department and a faculty member at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has…
Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom Michael Rothberg, UCLA’s 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Professor of Holocaust Studies, was one of the first scholars to discuss and write about the links between remembrances…
Courtesy of UCLA College In honor of commencement, UCLA College Communications created a video, “What the UCLA College Taught Me About Myself.” Introduced by Dean García-Garibay, it features 10 students…
Courtesy of the GoArts Website BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI The UCLA Chancellor’s Council on the Arts will honor two students – a graduate and an undergraduate student – as 2023 class…
Daniel Treisman, Harryette Mullen and Heather Maynard Jonathan Riggs | April 20, 2023 In 1781, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were among the first members elected to the American Academy of…
Clockwise from top left: Prineha Narang, Michael Berry, Alex Purves, Michael Rothberg and Scott Cummings. Sean Brenner | April 7, 2023 Five UCLA professors are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for…
Courtesy of Alisée Devillers BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Alisée Devillers joined the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures as a postdoctoral researcher through a fellowship awarded by the Belgian…
Joshua Javier Guzmán, assistant professor of gender studies and chair of the LGBTQ studies program at UCLA, received a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in support of his…
Courtesy of Julio Vega-Payne BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Julio Vega-Payne joined the classics department as a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow this academic year. According to the fellowship website, “The Chancellor’s Postdoctoral…
Dominic Thomas, UCLA’s Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies | UCLA Jonathan Riggs | January 23, 2023 Last November, Dominic Thomas, Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French…
Courtesy of The National Endowment for the Humanities Website BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Among the 204 projects nationwide funded by $28.1 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities…
UCLA Law | December 16, 2022 Professor emeritus Herbert Morris, a globally renowned scholar and teacher of law and philosophy and a foundational member of UCLA School of Law’s faculty,…
Image courtesy of Arushi Avachat By Anushka Chakrabarti Arushi Avachat, a third-year English and political science undergraduate student at UCLA, will see her debut novel, “Arya Khanna’s Bollywood Moment,” hit…
Courtesy of Gabriel Zucman BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI In the latest installment of the “Possible Worlds” lecture series, French economist Gabriel Zucman joined UCLA students, faculty and community members on October…
Courtesy of Elizabeth DeLoughrey BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Elizabeth DeLoughrey, a UCLA professor of English who also holds an appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, received a…
Courtesy of Robert Buswell By Anushka Chakrabarti UCLA Buddhist studies scholar Robert Buswell will be the keynote speaker for the Division of Humanities commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 11 at…