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Lessons learned in the humanities - critical, creative and comparative thinking, cultural understanding and effective communication - set you up not only for multiple career paths but for an education that will see you through a lifetime

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Congrats to our College of Humanities Class of 2021!
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The humanities teach us to question the world around us in order to better understand our place within it. In the humanities, we seek to understand the nuances of cultural issues, to interpret human experience, and to appreciate the power of words and ideas. By studying humanities, we broaden our historical, ethical, social and international perspectives while enhancing ourselves intellectually and creatively.

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Perspectives 2019 - 2020

Check out our yearly publication, Perspectives. This year, the bulk of the magazine is devoted to how we have adapted our teaching, scholarship, and creative work to address COVID-19. We hear from several students and faculty about the impact this pandemic has had on their academic careers. Click below to read our online Perspecitves articles, and be on the lookout for the physical copy in your mailbox.

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Why Humanities with Tracy McMillan

Since graduating from the College of Humanities in 1989, Tracy McMillan has established a fascinating presence as a television writer, book author, TV personality and relationship expert. Her degree has taken her to the top of her profession and allowed her to connect to what it means to be human.

Humanities Radio Latest Episode

Season 4, Episode 3 - Day of the Dead with Taunya Flores

Season 4, Episode 3 - Day of the Dead with Tanya Flores

Día de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead – is a two-day Mexican holiday held on Nov. 1 and 2 to celebrate the lives of loved ones who have died. Tanya Flores, assistant professor of World Languages and Cultures, discusses a bit of its history and her personal experience celebrating the holiday.

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News

  1. Shoshana Zuboff, author, Harvard professor and social psychologist to present Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values

    The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah will host Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” for the Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values, Thursday, Oct. 28 at noon. Her lecture will explore the Digital Revolution entwined with the evolution of capitalism.

  2. Message From Dean Culver: Welcome Back

    Dean Stuart Culver welcomes students back to the College of Humanities for another eventful year.

Awards

  1. Ben Cohen Announced as AIIS Fellowship Recipient

    Ben Cohen, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of Utah, has received a senior fellowship award from the American Institute of Indian Studies to carry out his project, “Beyond Forests: Teak and the Making of Modern India c. 1700-2000.”

  2. French Professor Wins Malcolm Bowie Prize

    Vanessa Brutsche, assistant professor of French at the University of Utah, has been awarded the Malcolm Bowie Prize by the Society for French Studies for the most outstanding article published by an early-career researcher. Her winning article, “Duras’s Aurélia Steiner and the Ethics of Cinematic Form,” appeared in the journal French Studies (published by Oxford University Press) in July 2020.

 

Events

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  1. Oct 19

    Tuesday
    12pm - 1pm

    Community Read: Medical Apartheid

  2. Oct 19

    Tuesday
    2pm - 3pm

    Chinese Corner

    Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB)

  3. Oct 19

    Tuesday
    3pm - 4pm

    Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Info Sessions

    Zoom

  4. Oct 19

    Tuesday
    4pm - 5pm

    GCSC Seminar: “Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities” Heather Tanana

    Virtual and Zoom

  5. Oct 20

    Wednesday
    10:30am - 11:30am

    Russian Conversation Table

    Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB)

  6. Oct 20

    Wednesday
    12pm - 1pm

    Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Preparing Your Application Info Sessions

    Kahlert Village Rm. 1009

Faculty Publications

 
Nightengale

Nightingale

Paisley Rekdal

Possessing Polynesians

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaii & Oceania

Maile Arvin

Tokyo

TOKYO

Michael Mejia

The Science of Abolition

The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress

Eric Herschthal

 

 

The Collected Works of Walter Pater Vol. VIII Classical Studies Edited by Matthew Potolsky

The Collected Works of
Walter Pater
Vol. VIII - Classical Studies

Matthew Potolsky

Land and Literature

Land and Literature in a
Cosmopolitan Age

Vincent P. Pecora

Wan

Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture: Chinese Drum Ballads 1800-1937

Margaret B. Wan

Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State by Nadja Durbach

Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

Nadja Durbach

 

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Last Updated: 10/14/21