Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 King-Kok Cheung, professor emeritus of English and Asian American studies at UCLA, received the Association for Asian American Studies lifetime achievement award late April…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 Sarah Beckmann, an assistant professor of Roman archaeology in the classics department and a faculty member at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has been…
Jonathan Riggs | June 23, 2023 Michael Rothberg, UCLA’s 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Professor of Holocaust Studies, was one of the first scholars to recognize and write about the troubling,…
Lucy Berbeo | June 14, 2023 UCLA received a gift of $552,693 from Arcadia, a charitable fund that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge,…
Jonathan Riggs | May 9, 2023 This 2023 Guggenheim Fellow plumbs the depths of the ancient epic Few forms can rival poetry for its power — through the enduring…
Jonathan Riggs | May 9, 2023 Professors Jacob Foster and Danny Snelson weigh in on how artificial intelligence might influence and invigorate writing, art and culture One of the Writers…
Jonathan Riggs | April 20, 2023 In 1781, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were among the first members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s…
Sean Brenner | April 7, 2023 Five UCLA professors — including three from the UCLA Division of Humanities — are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for 2023. Presented annually since 1925…
UCLA Humanities | February 22, 2023 Joshua Javier Guzmán, assistant professor of gender studies and chair of the LGBTQ studies program at UCLA, received a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts…
Anushka Chakrabarti | February 17, 2023 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 Fellowship…
Jonathan Riggs | January 23, 2023 Last November, Dominic Thomas, Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, won…
Anushka Chakrabarti | January 19, 2023 Among the 204 projects nationwide funded by $28.1 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities this year are initiatives by UCLA…
UCLA Humanities | January 9, 2023 On Saturday, January 21, at 7 p.m., the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture will proudly present the premiere…
UCLA School of 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…
Anushka Chakrabarti | October 29, 2022 In the latest installment of the “Possible Worlds” lecture series, French economist Gabriel Zucman joined UCLA students, faculty and community members on October 11…
Anushka Chakrabarti | October 29, 2022 Elizabeth DeLoughrey, a UCLA professor of English who also holds an appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, received a 2021…
Jonathan Riggs | September 21, 2022 The collaboration between the Islamic studies program and UCLA Library continues to enrich the field and the world If there was any question that…
UCLA Humanities | September 15, 2022 The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has awarded more than $1.2 million to the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF…
UCLA Humanities | September 6, 2022 The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture announces the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Ioannis P. and…
Anushka Chakrabarti | June 10, 2022 UCLA Buddhist studies scholar Robert Buswell will be the keynote speaker for the Division of Humanities commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 11 at Royce…