Jonathan Riggs | March 14, 2023 In mid-March every year, the spotlight shines extra brightly on the Greek letter pi, which represents the ratio of a...
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...
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...
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...
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 and Francophone Studies in the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, won the Gutenberg Research Chair. As part...
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...
Los Angeles — On Saturday, January 21 at 7 pm, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture will proudly present...
UCLA Law | December 16, 2022 Professor emeritus Herbert Morris, a globally renowned scholar and teacher of law and philosophy and a foundational member of...
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,...
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...
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...
Jonathan Riggs | October 11, 2022 Alexandra Minna Stern will become UCLA’s dean of humanities on Nov. 1, succeeding David Schaberg, who has helmed the division since 2011...
Scholars’ notes surround a central box containing a 14th-century Persian scholar’s commentary on a 12th-century Islamic religious tract. | UCLA Library Special Collections The collaboration...
For more information, contact: Nikki Erinakis, Program Manager UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture nerinakis@humnet.ucla.edu The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has awarded...
Photo: Peter J. Caloyeras with his parents Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras, who lived on the Greek island of Spetses and were lifelong champions of...
[ Left to right: Siblings George, Alice and Harold Kachigian] Jonathan Riggs | July 21, 2022 The UCLA Division of Humanities has received a $1.2 million...
Photo: A scan from “Certaine errors in navigation, detected and corrected” by Edward Wright (1558?–1615), a new addition to the Paul Chrzanowski Collection. | UCLA’s...
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...
Courtesy of Elaine Kahn By Anushka Chakrabarti Elaine Kahn, a writer and artist based in Los Angeles, is the writer-in-residence in the UCLA Department of...
Courtesy of the UCLA Comparative Literature Website By Anushka Chakrabarti Angela Davis, internationally celebrated author, scholar and activist, delivered the second annual Edward W. Said...