Sanna Alas (B.A.S., Human Biology & Society, Comparative Literature ’15) has been selected as one of 35 US scholars to receive the prestigious Gates Cambridge...
The American Heritage Society and the County of San Diego has selected Quyen Di Chuc Bui to receive the 2016 Asian Heritage Award for Innovation...
History is mostly silent to us now. Thousands of years of human stories have been told in paintings, and sculptures, and sheet music, and text;...
Students and faculty gathered at Young Research Library Tuesday night to learn about the Quechua, an indigenous group native to South America, and UCLA’s courses...
February 12, 2016 A team of UCLA students has won a national prize for art history research. The Art Libraries Society of North America awarded...
Malina Stefanovska is a professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. She has published on the French court and on memoirs and autobiographies in the...
UCLA International Institute, February 8, 2016 — Verónica Cortínez, director of the UCLA Center for Southern Cone Studies and professor in the department of Spanish...
Malik Chaudhary’s contradictory upbringing led him to question everything. Chaudhary was born to immigrant parents, grew up gay in a traditional Muslim household and attended...
Matthew Fisher is an associate professor of English. He is working on a book about library fires. This column appeared Dec. 1 in Zócalo Public...
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, one of UCLA's major libraries for rare books and manuscripts, has received a grant for $194,000 to produce digital...
Can a new app that takes a scholarly yet playful approach to studying calligraphy help students learn to read classical Japanese texts the way people...
Steven Nelson recently joined a long line of respected Africanists who have led the African Studies Center at the UCLA International Institute. And as its...
Elisabeth Le Guin, a professor of musicology and director of graduate studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, won the American Musicological Society’s Otto...
As the new director of the Center for European and Russian Studies, Laure Murat, with great sadness, is now thinking through ways to organize a...
Professor Fred D’Aguiar, who joined the UCLA English department this fall as head of creative writing, hopes to create a robust and diverse program that...
The spectacular medieval manuscript known as the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies tells the story of a bigamous French-speaking knight from Hainaut (a county in...
Seven out of 10 Americans will be celebrating Halloween this Saturday, spending just under $7 billion on candy, decorations, costumes and greeting cards, with $350...
Ely Guerra, an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter from Mexico, showed the UCLA community last week why her artistic activism on behalf of women, indigenous people and...
With three thousand undergraduate humanities majors and minors each year, the Division of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles is making it a...
It featured a makeshift runway and a bevy of fit and beautiful young models. A casual observer passing Royce Hall might have confused it with...