Jessica Wolf | January 16, 2024 UCLA researchers from the humanities, arts and engineering aim to foster stronger ties between America’s vibrant creative sector and those involved in pioneering scientific…
Lucy Berbeo | December 6, 2023 With a gift of $2 million from an anonymous donor, UCLA plans to establish the Robert E. Archer Chair in the Study of Religion,…
Lucy Berbeo | November 16, 2023 UCLA has received a commitment of $11 million from the Persian Heritage Foundation to establish the UCLA Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary…
Lucy Berbeo | October 24, 2023 The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures received a gift of $345,000 from the Robert Lemelson Foundation to establish the Amazigh Studies…
Jonathan Riggs | August 31, 2023 When he was working on his master’s degree at the highly selective program at Syracuse University’s campus in Florence, Italy, Peter Weller experienced firsthand…
Jonathan Riggs | July 24, 2023 Professors Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a project called Race in the Global Past…
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,…
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 | 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…
Jonathan Riggs | July 21, 2022 The UCLA Division of Humanities has received a $1.2 million bequest from the estate of siblings George and Alice Kachigian to support the Armenian studies…
Margaret MacDonald | June 27, 2022 A new donation of 40 historical texts from Paul Chrzanowski further bolsters an already remarkable collection of early English texts at UCLA’s William Andrews…
Margaret MacDonald | May 10, 2022 Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his wife, Christina, will establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist Studies outside of…
Cover of the Arabic translation of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (author Jessica Marglin) Credit: Khalid Ben-Srhir. Margaret MacDonald | February 2, 2022 The UCLA Alan D. Leve…
The UCLA Department of Art History has established the Diane C. Brouillette Graduate Fellowship in Art History, thanks to a $250,000 tribute gift in memory of the late UCLA alumna…