The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) is extremely proud this year to be able to boast of the accomplishments of so many of our students. Despite our…
Originally published in the Daily Bruin BY MEGAN DALEY on April 17, 2018 12:27 am. Olga Kagan dedicated the last two decades of her life to a community that is often overlooked…
By Kevin G. McDonald on March 20, 2018 Dr. Lisa Felipe Dr. Lisa Felipe is the Director of the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Program (EPIC) at UCLA. EPIC, made possible by a…
Professor Kara Cooney (left) and Marissa Stevens (right) Marissa Stevens, Egyptology Graduate Student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, won UCLA’s 2018 Grad Slam Competition last night, Wednesday, March…
Cailey Hall | February 21, 2018 Hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, extinctions: with near-constant coverage of disaster scenarios, communities around the country can be forgiven for experiencing environmental news fatigue. How can we…
Jessica Wolf | February 15, 2018 One of the biggest champions of blockchain technology on the UCLA campus is a humanities professor — specifically David MacFadyen, professor of musicology who is currently…
Jessica Wolf | February 16, 2018 Modern Judeo-Christian rhetoric and imagery purports that Satan is an evil opponent to all that is good and godly — a literal opponent of God. But…
Photo: NBC Universal UCLA Professor, Pamela Hieronymi, has inspired, and consulted for NBC’s “The Good Place.” For the full story, please go to the Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Philosophers-Who-Give/242462
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is delighted to congratulate Professor David Schaberg, Dean of the Humanities at UCLA, on being awarded the 2018 Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize…
John Duncan is a UCLA scholar of Korean history and teaches in the departments of Asian languages and cultures and history. Duncan is the former head of the Center for Korean…
Margaret MacDonald | November 06, 2017 A donation of $1 million from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will establish the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Iranian Linguistics in the UCLA Department of…
Program opens with the world premiere of “David’s Quilt,” an original libretto about biblical King David Ariane Bicho | September 26, 2017 The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UCLA Alan…
Margaret MacDonald | October 12, 2017 A $5 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will enable UCLA to create the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. The…
The Division of Humanities is excited to announce that the project of Religious Landscapes of Los Angeles: Teaching and Exploring Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement, led by Principal Investigator and Center…
These five rising stars work in alternative-academic and traditional tenure-track positions at public research, liberal arts and Ivy League institutions. By Will Fenton August 2, 2017 The digital humanities have supported a remarkable…
LA Times Book Jacket Copy, July 27th, 2017, 3:00PM by Mark Athitakis “Our heroes tend to be orphans,” Zinzi Clemmons writes in her debut novel “What We Lose,” and the…
As the program celebrates 20 years of scholarship and advocacy, it also eyes expansion Jessica Wolf | July 17, 2017 For two decades, the field of queer studies has been thriving and…
Website and database they built sparked curator’s show about African-American women in silent race films Jessica Wolf | July 20, 2017 The meticulous work of UCLA digital humanities students who shone a…
Congratulations to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz of UCLA, the recipient of the 2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies for her outstanding academic work in the Humanities. Yasemin…
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….