Nouri Gana, associate professor of comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and cultures, has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2017 New Directions fellowship from the Andrew W….
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at UCLA and an archaeologist with the…
UCLA Daily Bruin BY MEGAN DALEY Posted: May 7, 2017 10:38 pm Josh Feldman stood in front of students in the Charles E. Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall and…
UCLA faculty members Judith Carney and Stephanie Jamison have been selected as members of the 237th class of American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows. Jamison, a professor of Asian…
As faculty in the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, associate professor of French and Francophone studies Lia Brozgal, along with vice chair and professor of history Sarah Stein, recently co-edited…
AS APPEARS IN UCLA MAGAZINE: By Wendy Soderburg ’82 Published Apr 1, 2017 8:00 AM In these turbulent times, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion director Carol Bakhos does not…
The Division of Humanities is excited to announce that the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Language,MTAAC, project co-directed by Robert K. Englund of UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures…
The Division of Humanities would like to congratulate Professor John Duncan, Professor of Korean in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, on his award as the twenty-third recipient of the Yongjae…
UCLA has established the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of ancient Iranian languages,…
UCLA Art History Professor Sharon Gerstel’s Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 inaugural book prize of…
The Division of Humanities would like to congratulate Richard E. Strassberg, Emeritus Professor of Chinese in Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA on the awarding of the The John Brinckerhoff Jackson…
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The Humanities Division is pleased to announce the launch of a three year collaborative project between UCLA and the Université François Rabelais of Tours (France), based on a research program…
UCLA professor Michael Cooperson of Near Eastern languages and cultures has won the Sheikh Hamad Award for his Arabic-to-English translation of the “Virtues of the Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal” by…
UCLA English Professor Uri McMillian to Receive MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for An Outstanding Scholarly Study for African American Literature or Culture New York, NY – 6 December 2016 –…
Teaching computers to read is one thing. But by designing an algorithm that examined nearly 2 million posts from two popular parenting websites, a multidisciplinary team of UCLA researchers has…
Professor and Chair of French and Francophone Studies, Dominic Thomas speaks on CNN International about France’s next Presidential Election, see clips below: CNN International, November 28th, 2016 http://www.snappytv.com/tc/3361991 In addition, Professor…
The College at UCLA has recently launched a dynamic video feature that asks 37 rapid-fire questions to a UCLA faculty member – in this video we tag along with NELC…
On November 21, a group of distinguished scholars, artists, activists and leaders will come together to discuss how human and humanistic knowledge can help inform action and make the…
While the #OscarsSoWhite controversy raged over the dearth of people of color nominated for Academy Awards this past year, a group of digital humanities students at UCLA channeled their frustration…