News Archive

International scholars recognize UChicago professor's original thinking
Welcome to Haven Academy
UChicago students engage their senses outside the classroom
Humanities scholar analyzes racial perceptions through architecture and home ownership
Meet the Staff: Eduardo Suh-Chavez
Media Mentions November 2024
UChicago fourth-year student named 2025 Rhodes Scholar
Norman Maclean biography uncovers personal stories of beloved UChicago author
Unraveling the ancient past one tablet at a time
Media Mentions October 2024
Meet the Staff: Sarah Hill
Howard Aronson, advocate for study of Slavic and non-Slavic languages, 1936-2024
Werewolf books and movies that make us more human
Lessons from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
UChicago philosopher to receive the prestigious Luhmann Science Prize
UChicago writer Ling Ma received 2024 MacArthur Fellowship
Media Mentions September 2024
Meet the Staff: Margot Browning
Prof. Philip V. Bohlman to address complexity of "doing good" through music during Humanities Day keynote
New human rights track offers MA students new opportunities for learning
Acclaimed UChicago composer's new orchestral composition debuts at the New York Philharmonic
Media Mentions August 2024
Meet the Staff: Hyeonjin Schubert
Robyn Schiff's epic poem 'Information Desk' draws critical acclaim
The valuable role video games play in the classroom
UChicago's Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations changes name to Department of Middle Eastern Studies
For a 'Citizen Artist,' Creativity Is a Matter of Survival
Media Mentions July 2024
Meet the Staff: Déja Motley
Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer Elected to the British Academy
Lewis 'Alan' Longino, UChicago graduate student and scholar of postwar Japanese art, 1987‒2024
Vanessa German brings open mind and Sun Ra to Exhibition at Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts
Media Mentions June 2024
Florence Illuminated project to receive generous NEH grant
The UChicagoGRAD Diversity Advisory Board Announced the Fourth Annual Diversity Awards.
George Haley, acclaimed critic of the Golden Age of Spanish Literature, 1927‒2024
Bridging Research and Public: Humanities Students Engage Diverse Audiences
How UChicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 'is here for everyone'
Meet the Staff: Trista Trone
Media Mentions May 2024
Humanities Division Honors Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff at 538th Convocation
Meet the Staff: Alyssa Miller
Humanities scholar elected as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy
Two Humanities Scholars to Receive 2024 Quantrell Awards
W. Ralph Johnson, pre-eminent UChicago critic of Latin poetry, 1933‒2024
Media Mentions April 2024
Two Humanities scholars elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024
UChicago scholar wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Diversity and Inclusion Pillars: Past, Present, and Future
Donald Whitcomb, renowned scholar of Islamic archaeology, 1944‒2024
Two UChicago scholars awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships
Meet the Staff: Michael Fischer
What eclipses have meant to people across the ages
Media Mentions March 2024
Author and "Odyssey" translator Daniel Mendelsohn to deliver Berlin Family Lectures, beginning April 23
William Walker Tait, renowned UChicago philosopher of mathematics, 1929‒2024
Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024
Meet the Staff: Kat Byrnes
Media Mentions February 2024
Humanities Division Strengthens Its Commitment to Teaching the Modern Greek Language
Young Scholars Worldwide Interact at the International Balzan Prize Inaugural Symposium
Meet the Staff: Stephen Carver
Martha C. Nussbaum Honored with the Norman Maclean Faculty Award
A UChicago Composer Finds Inspiration in Rome
Music and Medicine Foster Creativity and Belonging at South Side School
Media Mentions January 2024
Serious Gaming in China: Humanities Professor's Journey to the No. 1 Mecca of the Gaming Industry
News on Gifts
Humanities Division to Elevate the Study of South Asian Art and Media
Vera Klement, Painter Who Saw Both Beauty and Evil, Dies at 93
Perspective: An Ode to my BYU Major
Setting the Scene
Meet the Staff: Salma Tahrani
Prof. Jonathan Lear To Examine Gratitude in 2024 Ryerson Lecture
Media Mentions December 2023
Humanities Scholar Receives Prestigious Award for Analyzing India's Art Cinema
William Pope.L, Renowned Interdisciplinary Artist and Scholar, 1955–2023
Meet the Staff: Isaac Rainey
Modern Language Association and College Art Association to Honor W. J. T. Mitchell with Lifetime Achievement Awards for English and Writing on Art
UChicago Fourth-Year Student Earns Marshall Scholarship
Two UChicago Scholars to Receive Scaglione Prizes from the Modern Language Association
Media Mentions November 2023
UChicago Scholar Receives ASAP Book Prize
UChicago Humanities Alum Earns Prestigious Mitchell Scholarship
Meet the Staff: Gaby Choi
Two Humanities Scholars to Receive the Charles J. Goodwin Award
Media Mentions October 2023
Meet the Staff: Vanessa Armand
Modern Language Association to Honor W. J. T. Mitchell with Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
Media Mentions September 2023
Prof. Sianne Ngai to Address Relationship Between Aesthetic Judgments, Capitalism in Humanities Day Keynote
Meet the Staff: Greg Panciera
Gaming Islam
Summer Program Expands Humanistic Research
NEH Recognizes Three UChicago Humanities Scholars
A Generous Gift Expands the Reach of Translation Studies
Media Mentions August 2023
Meet the Staff: Paul M. Goerner
Four Questions with Robert Morrissey
Humanities Visiting Scholar Is an Artist in Exile
Media Mentions July 2023
Humanities and History Scholar Elected Fellow of the British Academy
UChicago Humanities Scholar Honored for His Work on French Culture
'The Classics Are Everywhere; Most of Us Are Likely Just Not Looking for Them'
Five Questions for Author Linda Seidel about van Gogh and Summer Reading
Meet the Staff: Eleanor Timmermann
Two Humanities Faculty Receive Named Professorships
Media Mentions June 2023
UChicago Teaching Award Winners Share their Summer Reading Recommendations
Meet the Staff: Carol Ng-He
Sarah Curran Is New Executive Director for UChicago Presents
Media Mentions May 2023
Four Humanities Graduate Students Shine at the 2023 Transcending Boundaries Symposium
Humanities Division Honors Graduate Students and Faculty at the 537th Convocation
Experimental UChicago Course Compares Maya, European Stories of Creation
Deborah Nelson Appointed Dean of UChicago's Division of the Humanities
Meet the Staff: Annie Diamond
Media Mentions April 2023
Cornell Fleischer, Historian Who Revolutionized Study of Ottoman Empire, 1950-2023
Humanities Scholar Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Meet the Staff: Verletta Bonney
Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?
NEH Grant to Transform UChicago's Creation and Delivery of Digital Collections and Research Data
UChicago Writer's Second Book Wins Three Significant Awards
Two UChicago Scholars Awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
Media Mentions March 2023
UChicago to Expand English-Language Translation of South Asian Literature
Humanities Scholar Receives the Prestigious William Nelson Prize
Scholar Mary Beard to Deliver Lecture Series on What We can Learn from the Classics
Meet the Staff: Mike Zmija
Media Mentions February 2023
Soujourner Truth Festival to Bring Together Generations of Black Women Filmmakers
UChicago Composer to Debut Opera about Anne Frank
Meet the Staff: Jennifer Woodrum
Celebrating Humanities Scholars: Black History Month
Media Mentions January 2023
UChicago Humanities Scholar Receives NEH Fellowship
Meet the Staff: Lara Madden
UChicago Humanities Professor Receives Honorary Doctorate from the Universite Jean Monnet
Meet the Staff: Anna Dobrowolski
Media Mentions December 2022
Composition in Color
Media Mentions November 2022
Meet the Staff: Claire Snarksi
Ancient Civilizations
Monthly Humanities Newsletter Archive
Janel M. Mueller, Formidable Intellect and Pioneering Figure at UChicago, 1938–2022
Media Mentions October 2022
Meet the Staff: Molly Heiler
Two UChicago Humanities Scholars Receive the International Balzan Prizes
Franklin D. Lewis, Prolific and Dedicated Scholar of Persian Literature, 1961-2022
Prof. Kenneth Warren to Address How Unprecedented Income Inequality Affects Literature in Humanities Day Keynote
Is a book hidden inside a decades-old piece of concrete? Scientists seek answers to art mystery
Media Mentions September 2022
Meet the Staff: Rosemary Cook
Media Mentions August 2022
UChicago Humanities Division Centers Awarded $4.5 Million in U.S. Government Grants
Media Mentions July 2022
Meet the Staff: Sarah Brock
Summer Reading Recommendations from UChicago Faculty
19 UChicago Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Media Mentions June 2022
Humanities Graduate Students Are Pivotal to the Success of Transcending Boundaries Symposium
Humanities Division Returns to Rockefeller Chapel for 536th Convocation
How Teaching Film Inspired a UChicago Scholar to Bridge Media and Legal Studies
Media Mentions May 2022
Meet the Staff: Allison Muscolino
Salikoko Mufwene Elected to American Philosophical Society
UChicago Instructors, Grad Students Honored in 2022 for Exceptional Teaching
University Announces 2022 Winners of the Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
GSAS Awards Centennial Medals to Neil Harris and Robert Zimmer
Kate Petroff, a Doctoral Student in Philosophy, Earns Freund Prize
Three UChicago Humanities Scholars Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
Meet the Staff: Miller C. Prosser
Media Mentions April 2022
Media Mentions March 2022
Meet the Staff: Brent Fergusson
Poet Claudia Rankine to Explore Meaning of Survival in UChicago Lecture Series
UChicago's Korngold Festival rediscovers composer who straddled two worlds: A Q&A with Prof. Philip V. Bohlman
From 'Dune' to Climate Change, UChicago Scholar Draws from Unique Experiences in New Course
What Does 'Drawing' Mean? Gray Center Exhibition Explores Interdisciplinary Possibilities
Media Mentions February 2022
Meet the Staff: Shea Wolfe
Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Established at the University of Chicago
Humanities Doctoral Student's Creative Vent Turns into Career
Why you can’t stop playing Wordle, according to a computational linguist
Meet the Staff: Joshua Stapleton
Media Mentions January 2022
How the University's First Ph.D. Graduate Strengthened Ties Between Chicago and Japan
The Overlooked History of Black Cinema, with Jacqueline Stewart
UChicago President Alivisatos Joins the Humanities for an Immersive Experience
Media Mentions December 2021
Meet the Staff: Loreal E. Robertson
19 UChicago Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
What UChicago Faculty and Staff Want You to Read Over Winter Break
Humanities Scholar to Receive the Friedrich Katz Prize in History
Media Mentions November 2021
Graduate Student Council Reconnects Community Amid the Pandemic
Advancing Innovative East Asian Arts Research Within the Humanities
Meet the Staff: Russell Pagano
In Humanities Day Keynote, Wu Hung Explores the Rehabilitation of Damaged Art
Meet the Staff: Sharonda Lewis
Media Mentions October 2021
Music, Poetry by UChicago Faculty Will Welcome President Alivisatos on Oct. 29
From the Forbidden City to UChicago, Art Historian Searches for 'a Human Perspective'
Meet the Staff: Tara Rutledge
Media Mentions September 2021
UChicago Film Scholar Jacqueline Stewart Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Make Film History More Inclusive. That's Jacqueline Stewart's Mandate at Academy Museum
UChicago Scholar Receives ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship
Meet the Staff: Paul Quaintance
Media Mentions August 2021
In New Book, Prof. Martha Nussbaum Examines the Path Forward After #MeToo
Michael Murrin, Leading Scholar of Allegory and 'Dracologist,' 1938-2021
Meet the Staff: Allie Scholten
Robert K. Ritner Jr., eminent Egyptologist and beloved teacher, 1953–2021
Media Mentions July 2021
Twenty-One UChicago Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Lauren Berlant, Preeminent Literary Scholar and Cultural Theorist, 1957–2021
Meet the Staff: A. Özge Koçak Hemmat
Longtime Journal Editor W. J. T. Mitchell Reflects on Career, the Loss of His Son
Media Mentions June 2021
100 Years Ago, Georgiana Simpson Made History as the First Black Woman to Graduate with a Ph.D.
Division of the Humanities Recognizes Student and Faculty Scholarship at the 534th Convocation
UChicago Scholar Mitchell S. Jackson Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essay on Ahmaud Arbery
Two Humanities Scholars Receive the Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching
Media Mentions May 2021
The Hidden History of 'Guerrilla Television': UChicago Scholars Preserve Decades-Old Videos
Meet the Staff: Don Dunbar
UChicago Announces 2021 Winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
Humanities Scholar Wins the Prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award
UChicago Humanities Professor To Be Honored as Commandeur by the French Government
Eight UChicago Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Media Mentions April 2021
Meet the Staff: Katie Kahal
Humanities Alum Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction
What Words Cannot Express: Ian Bostridge on the Power of Music
One Humanities Scholar Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
Vocalist Ian Bostridge to Deliver Lecture Series on Music and Identity
Media Mentions: March 2021
Meet the Staff: Ahmet Dursun
Take a Closer Look at Artist Pope.L's Newest Exhibition
Controversial Classics Spur New Conversations for TCM Hosts
Neubauer Collegium's New Research Projects Signal Enduring Commitment to Inquiry
Martha C. Nussbaum Awarded 2021 Holberg Prize
Meet the Staff: Katherine Tsiang
Art Historian Darby English on Why the New Black Renaissance Might Actually Represent a Step Backwards
New Concert Series Weaves Together Music, Architecture for Online Audiences
Amid pandemic, UChicago scholar launches program for international artists
Media Mentions February 2021
Drawn from Music: Art Exhibition Opens Window into Composers' Creative Process
Humanities Scholar Receives Prestigious Donnelley Fellowship to Cambridge College
Norman Golb, Dead Sea Scrolls Contrarian, Is Dead at 92
Prominent Alumnus Inspires New UChicago Humanities Endowment in Islamic Studies
Humanities Lecturer to Receive Prestigious Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Media Mentions January 2021
Meet the Staff: Shekinah Thornton
Pope.L's New Exhibition at Neubauer Collegium Is Shaped by COVID-19
Humanities Scholar Hoda El Shakry Receives the Prestigious MLA Scaglione Prize
Norman Golb, Renowned Scholar of Medieval Jewish History, 1928-2020
Humanities Grad Student Nova Smith Receives Diversity Leadership Award Tonight
Jacqueline Stewart Is One of 2020 Chicagoans of the Year
Meet the Staff: Annie Williams
Twenty-Three UChicago Faculty Receive Named Professorships or Have Been Appointed Distinguished Service Professors
What You Should Read Over Winter Break
Media Mentions December 2020
Grant to Support Humanities Scholar's New Novel on Black Cult Leader
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing the Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schlit
Aught Culture: The Exhibitions That Defined the 2000s
Meet the Staff: Abbey Newman
ECHO Game Brings Students Together--and Keeps Them Safe
UChicago Humanities Scholars Expand Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, Middle East
Media Mentions November 2020
Our Love-Hate Relationship with Gimmicks
With Augmented Reality, You Can Now Superimpose Publicly Exhibited Artworks in Your Home
Meet the Staff: Bonnie Tucker
Media Mentions October 2020
Building Ideas: Students Help Reimagine Core Texts in Renowned Alum Jenny Holzer's Innovative Artwork
Media Mentions September 2020
Meet the Staff: Krishna Kulkarni
Prof. Martha Nussbaum to Address Animal Rights in Humanities Day Keynote
True or False? What a UChicago Linguist Will Look for During the Presidential Debates
Robert Bird, prolific scholar of Russian literature and film, 1969–2020
Court Theatre Reimagines the Stage Through Online Programs During Pandemic
Media Mentions: August 2020
Meet the Staff: Maria Savannah
Meet the Staff: Tesbih Habbal
Media Mentions: July 2020
Living Through Turbulent Times with Jane Austen
Michael Silverstein, Groundbreaking Anthropologist and Linguist, 1945-2020
How an Alternate Reality Game Helped Build Community During the Pandemic
Op-Ed: Bias Against African American English Speakers Is a Pillar of Systemic Racism
Three Division of the Humanities Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Meet the Staff: Laurel Darling
The Berlins Endow New Chair for Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature
Why We Can't Turn Away from "Gone with the Wind"
Allyson Nadia Field Receives the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, Allowing Her to Focus on Uncovering Early Films Defying Racial Stereotypes
Gimmicks Might Be the Key to Understanding Capitalism
Division of the Humanities Recognizes the Scholarship and Teaching of Students and Faculty at the 533rd Virtual Convocation
Four Graduate Students Honored for Exceptional Teaching of Undergraduates
The College Announces Winners of the Undergraduate Teaching Award
University Announces 2020 Winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
Media Mentions: June 2020
Humanities Conversation Centers on Ling Ma's Novel "Severance"
From Concerts to Museums, UChicago Artists Find New Inspiration Under Quarantine
Co-Creating Worlds: An Interview with Guggenheim Fellow Patrick Jagoda
Meet the Staff: Maria Chavez
Humanities Scholar David Wellbery Elected to American Philosophical Society
Media Mentions: May 2020
Danielle Allen to Deliver Lecture Series on "Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus"
Meet the Staff: Zespo
Six UChicago Scholars Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UChicago Philosopher Agnes Callard Receives 2020 Lebowitz Prize
'Road Map' to Recovery Report: 20 Million Coronavirus Tests Per Day Needed to Fully Open Economy
Humanities Professor Receives the AAP Prose Excellence Award in Classics
How Do We Live Online? Virtual Philosophy Discussion Tackles Big Questions
Five UChicago Scholars Awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships
Alternate Reality Game Sparks Innovative Student Ideas About Climate Change
Media Mentions: April 2020
Meet the Staff: Jessica Barbaro
UChicago Writer's Post-Apocalyptic Novel Earns Her Prestigious Honor
UChicago Infectious Disease Specialist: What We Know About Novel Coronavirus
University of Chicago Transitioning to Remote Learning for Spring Quarter
Media Mentions: March 2020
Meet the Staff: Maja Sunleaf
Two Humanities Faculty Members Receive NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
From Cigarettes to Human Hair: Exhibition Uses Materials to Explore Chinese Art
Experimental Composer Channels The Doors During UChicago Residency
Media Mentions: February 2020
UChicago Alum Tim Cassedy Receives the MLA First Book Award
Meet the Staff: Joyce Kuechler
UChicago Fellow Adam Singerman Receives the SSILA's Mary R. Haas Award for His Groundbreaking Dissertation
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Awards $500,000 to Endow UChicago Art History Doctoral Fellowship
UChicago Composer Reigns as Matriarch Among Creative Women on Chicago's Music Scene
Humanities Emeritus Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Advancing Persian Literature and Linguistics
Media Mentions: January 2020
Humanities Professor Jacqueline Stewart Watches Movies Over Your Shoulder on Airplanes
Trump's Threat to Attack 52 Iranian Sites Draws Criticism, Concern from Humanities Professor Emeritus
Two UChicago Scholars to be Honored by Modern Language Association
Six Humanities Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Meet the Staff: Angela Risi
UChicago Humanities Professor Robert Kendrick Is Honored as Knight of the Italian Republic
Theaster Gates: "Liverpool Has the Complexity of Race In Its DNA"
Jacqueline Stewart Helps to Add More Diversity to Films in the National Film Registry
Media Mentions: December 2019
Humanities Scholar Edgar Garcia to Receive MLA's William Riley Parker Prize Honorable Mention
Humanities Scholar Lauren Berlant to Receive 2019 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature
Meet the Staff: Maren Robinson
Beatboxer Finds New Sound in Opera by UChicago Composer
Media Mentions: November 2019
Kimberly Peirce Reflects on How UChicago Shaped Her Filmmaking Career
Why Chasing the Good Life Is Holding Us Back, With Lauren Berlant
Christopher Taylor Receives the ASA Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize
Media Mentions: October 2019
Meet the Staff: Starsha Gill
Humanities Scholar Explores Overlapping Worlds of Black and Trans Communities
Humanities Day Keynote to Examine How Home Movies Represent Cultural History
Mixing Beatboxing with Opera, Acclaimed Composer Redefines Genre
Meet the Staff: Bridget Madden
Media Mentions: September 2019
To Understand Today's Global Data Economy, Look to the Middle Ages
2019 Humanities Day Keynote Presenter To Become Turner Classic Movies' First Black Host
Meet the Staff: Nadine Clark
Media Mentions: August 2019
UChicago Library Becomes Home to 2,700 Vintage Photographs by Vivian Maier
New Book Explores 'Concept of the Ordinary'—100 Words at a Time
Humanities Scholar Receives the 2019 Tagore Memorial Prize
Division of the Humanities' Department of Art History Announces $1 Million Endowment for Art Conservation Courses
David Bevington, Preeminent Shakespeare Scholar, 1931-2019
Meet the Staff: Amy Iwano
Media Mentions: July 2019
Two Division of the Humanities Faculty Members Receive Named Professorships
Meet the Staff: Carmen Caswell
Kenneth Northcott, UChicago Scholar, Translator, and Actor, 1922-2019
Media Mentions: June 2019
Four Humanities Division Faculty Who Inspire Students Honored with UChicago Teaching Awards
Academy Honors UChicago Scholar Who Identified Historic On-Screen Kiss
Meet the Staff: Ellen Pierce
Prof. Lauren Berlant To Receive Norman Maclean Faculty Award
Electronic Musician's Offbeat Approach Melds Sound With Computer Science
Jonathan Lear Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Acclaimed Art Historian Serves as the Exhibition Scholar for the US Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale
Media Mentions: May 2019
Humanities Scholar Wins the Sonya Rudikoff Prize
Acclaimed South Asian Visiting Scholar to Deliver Annual Vivekananda Lecture
UChicago Press Awards Top Honor to Deborah Nelson for 'Tough Enough'
Wu Hung Explains How Western Concepts Have Drastically Shaped the History of Chinese Art
Meet the Staff: Matthew Weflen
Kenneth Warren Is One of Four UChicago Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five University of Chicago Scholars Earn Guggenheim Fellowships
Media Mentions: April 2019
Meet the Staff: Nancy Pardee
John Muse Receives the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
How Lauren Berlant's Cultural Criticism Predicted the Trumping of Politics
Media Mentions: March 2019
Author and Photographer Teju Cole to Deliver a Series of Talks at UChicago
How Jewish Refuges Found a Wartime Home in Shanghai
Meet the Staff: Benjamin Shurtleff
Media Mentions: February 2019
Register Today for the 2019 Berlin Family Lectures: Award-Winning Author Teju Cole
Gates Cambridge Scholar to Study Science Behind Art Conservation
Eric P. Hamp, Renowned Scholar of Indo-European Linguistics, 1920-2019
Frank E. Reynolds, Leading Scholar of Buddhism and Revered Teacher, 1930-2019
Miguel Civil, World’s Leading Scholar of Ancient Sumerian, 1926-2019
Media Mentions: January 2019
Meet the Staff: Julie Matsubara
Eric Slauter Discusses Solitude in America for a BackStory Podcast
David Wellbery to Receive the Golden Goethe Medal
Visual Arts Scholar Theaster Gates's Art Basel Exhibition Draws Celebrities
NELC and Oriental Institute Excavation Team Discovers Ancient Urban Villa with Shrine for Ancestor Worship in Egypt
Humanities Graduate Student Earns Kudos as a Poet
Scholarly Associations for Middle East Studies Laud NELC Researchers for Illuminating Recent and Ancient History
Meet the Staff: Amanda Young
Media Mentions: December 2018
UChicago Cinema Expert Helps Identify 1898 Film as Earliest Depiction of African-American Affection
UChicago Scholar Writing about Space and Race Wins Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize
UChicago Professor To Receive the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for His Transformative Scholarship
Two UChicago Graduate Students Receive Coveted AMS Fellowships
UChicago Professor to Receive the MLA's Prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize
Media Mentions: November 2018
Meet the Staff: Jessica Haley
UChicago Professor Wins 2018 Lewis Lockwood Award
Prominent Harvard Law Professor Publishes New Book Condemning the Compromises at the Core of American Civic Life
Media Mentions: October 2018
Meet the Staff: Mai Vukcevich
UChicago Professor Martha Nussbaum Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize
UChicago Professor Wins 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Meet the Staff: Walter Bourdaghs
Media Mentions: September 2018
Philosophy Professor Gabriel Richardson Lear to Deliver Aims of Education Address
Edward Wasiolek, renowned scholar of Russian literature, 1924–2018
Heralded Composer and UChicago Colleagues Launch New Concert Series
Meet the Staff: Ingrid Sagor
Media Mentions: August 2018
Piano Donated by Franke Family Fosters ‘Extraordinary Musicianship’ at UChicago’s Department of Music
Media Mentions: July 2018
Faculty Bookshelf: January – July, 2018
Five UChicago Humanities Professors Receive Research Funding
Heshmat Moayyad, influential Persian scholar, translator, and writer, 1927–2018
Meet the Staff: Kaveeta Burres
Media Mentions: June 2018
David J. Levin Appointed Senior Adviser to the Provost for Arts
D. Nicholas Rudall, distinguished UChicago professor, playwright, and founding director of the Court Theatre, 1940–2018
Faculty Members Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Wu Hung named 2019 Mellon Lecturer
Meet the Staff: Dawn Brennan
Philip Roth, award-winning author and UChicago alumnus, 1933-2018
Media Mentions: May 2018
Four faculty members receive Guggenheim fellowships
Big Brains podcast dives into the creative process of renowned UChicago composer
Kali Charan Bahl, a pioneer in South Asian scholarship, 1917-2018
Meet the Staff: Barbara L. Williams Myers
Media Mentions: April 2018
Media Mentions: March 2018
Meet the Staff: Margo Strebig
Steven Collins, world-renowned scholar of Buddhism, 1951-2018
Meet the Staff: William Weaver
Media Mentions: February 2018
Media Mentions: January 2018
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
Meet the Staff: Traci Verleyen
Michèle Lowrie and Claudia Brittenham Receive NEH Fellowships
Media Mentions: December 2017
Meet the Staff: Alyssa Padilla-Drexler
Media Mentions: November 2017
Meet the Staff: Thomas Ott
Media Mentions: October 2017
Meet the Staff: Tracy Davis
Gift from Joyce Z. Greenberg, AB’52, Supports Jewish Studies at UChicago
Media Mentions: September 2017
Meet the Staff: Alison LaTendresse
UChicago Appointed Co-commissioner of U.S. Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale
Media Mentions: August 2017
Meet the Staff: Dana Treglia
Media Mentions: July 2017
Meet the Staff: Deborah Blumenthal
Meet the Staff: Vicki Walden
Faculty Bookshelf: Spring 2017
Philip Gossett, Scholar of 19th-Century Italian Opera, 1941–2017
Meet the Staff: Tiffany Parach
Christopher Woods Appointed Director of Oriental Institute
Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Delivers Berlin Family Lectures
Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Selected to Participate in documenta 14
Meet the Staff: Lex Nalley
Curating Classicisms
Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Anne Walters Robertson Named Dean of the Division of the Humanities
Meet the Staff: Courtney Guerra
Faculty Bookshelf: January–March, 2017
UChicago Receives $25 Million Gift from Neubauer Family Foundation to Support PhD Education
Poetry and the Human Becomes the Newest Humanities Core Sequence Option
The College Announces New Curricular Initiatives in the Humanities
Meet the Staff: Jamie McCormick
Department of English to Offer Undergraduate Major in Creative Writing
Biography Examines Political Motivations of Montaigne
Transmedia Story Lab to Reframe Narratives of Chicago’s South Side
College Student In Classics Earns Fellowship
Justin Steinberg Awarded NEH Fellowship
Meet the Staff: Michael Beetley
Bartsch-Zimmer Earns Award for Classical Scholarship
Meet the Staff: Kathy Fox
Meet the Staff: Peter Gillette
Richard Strier to Lead NEH Seminar
Meet the Staff: Jane Bohnsack
Humanists on Humanities Day: Suggestions from the Presenters
UChicago Receives $350K Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Paolo Cherchi Elected to Accademia dei Lincei, Highest Academic Honor in Italy
Alison LaTendresse Honored with Marlene F. Richman Award
Anne Walters Robertson Named Interim Dean of Humanities
Tableau Receives Gold Award in Circle of Excellence Competition
Outstanding Teaching, Mentoring, and Scholarship Recognized at 527th Convocation
UChicago Honors Legacy of Czech New Wave Films
University of Chicago Receives $2M Grant from Mellon Foundation for Language Instruction
Three Humanities Division Faculty Members Earn Guggenheim Fellowships
Creating Unsuspending Disbelief
Faculty Members Honored with Named Professorships
Neubauer Collegium Announces Newest Projects
Karlos Arregi and Alan Yu Named LSA Fellows, Class of 2016
South Asia Exhibit Addresses Representation, Identity
Ramakrishnan Professorship to Support Study of Sanskrit
Lindsay Gift to Establish Booth Professorship and Humanities Fellowships
Philosopher Candace Vogler on Virtue, Happiness and the Meaning of Life
Exhibit Features Archival Images of Persepolis
Collaborative Research Project to Examine Sources of Happiness and Personal Fulfillment
Amitav Ghosh to Deliver Berlin Family Lectures
Artist, DOVA Chair Jessica Stockholder Champions Contemporary Art at UChicago
UChicago Hosts ‘All-Star Team of Linguistics’ at 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute
Faculty Members Honored with Named Professorships
Filmmaker Agnès Varda In Residence at UChicago Oct. 8-15
Philippe Desan Receives Honor from Académie Française
Edes Prize Winner Explores Contrasts in Xilitla, Mexico
Nussbaum to Receive 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize
Tableau Receives Circle of Excellence Award
Outstanding Teaching, Mentoring, and Scholarship Recognized at 523rd Convocation
Norman W. Ingham, Scholar of Medieval Slavic Literature, 1934-2015
2015 Department of Music Student Award Recipients Announced
Cinemetrics Quantifies Creativity in Film
Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015
Anne Walters Robertson Elected to the American Philosophical Society
University of Chicago Acquires Papers of Cartoonist Daniel Clowes
Four Graduate Students Win ACLS Dissertation Fellowships
Françoise Meltzer Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Neubauer Collegium Celebrates Opening of New Home at 5701 S. Woodlawn
Sir Christopher Bayly, Visiting Scholar of South Asian History, 1945-2015
Two Faculty Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
T.H. Tsien, Scholar and Librarian of East Asian Studies, 1909-2015
Three Faculty Members Receive American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships
University Establishes Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Objects and Voices Exhibition Foregrounds Smart Museum's Collection and the Craft of Curation
Exhibition Documents History of LGBTQ Life at UChicago
Visiting Fellows Bring Expertise, Energy to Neubauer Collegium
Game Changer Chicago Awarded $1 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant
Exhibition Shows How Christians, Muslims, Jews Created Vibrant Society in Medieval Cairo
Tom Gunning and D.N. Rodowick Honored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Linguists Tackle Computational Analysis of Grammar
Graduate Student Kate Pukinskis Premieres Composition
Steven Rings on the Many Voices of Bob Dylan
Neubauer Collegium Selects New Interdisciplinary Projects
Ptaszynska to Serve as Artistic Director of Contempo
Exploring the Life and Legacy of Susan Sontag at UChicago and Beyond
American Culture From Every Angle
Arts, Science, and Culture Fellows and Collaborators Stretch Academic Boundaries
Creating Lands End
Shulamit Ran on 50 Years of Contempo
MLA Honors Steinberg for Work on Dante
New Anthology Showcases MAPH Scholarship
The Digital Humanities at UChicago
Faculty Members Honored with Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Dipesh Chakrabarty Awarded 2014 Toynbee Prize
Brenda Johnson named Library Director and University Librarian
Rescuing Endangered Native Languages
Jonathan Lear Named Roman Family Director of Neubauer Collegium
Berlin Family Lectures: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption
Humanists on Humanities Day: Suggestions From Bevington, Grenoble, Levin, and Rokem
DoVA Faculty Members and Alumni Recognized as "Chicago's Artists' Artists"
Victor Friedman Honored for Scholarship and Professional Service
Connecting Dickinson and Herbert: Strier Leads NEH Summer Seminar
Learning Through Play
New Exhibit at Special Collections Unearths UChicago’s Research in Mexico
Combining Math and Music
Joyce Kuechler Honored with Marlene F. Richman Award
NELC Student Reports on Humanitarian Crisis in Northern Iraq
Center for Italian Opera Studies Receives Five-Year Grant
Gray Center to Continue Bold Collaborations Between Artists, Scholars
Joan Harris One of Three Arts Leaders With UChicago Ties to Receive National Medal of Arts
Chute Goes 'Outside the Box' in New Book on Contemporary Comics
Turkish President Presents Cornell Fleischer with Order of Merit
Faculty Members, Graduate Student Receive ACLS Fellowships
Ancient Parasite Suggests Human Technology Contributed to Spread of Diseases
Arts|Science Initiative Collaborations Inspire New Directions, Approaches to Research
Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Recognized at 519th Convocation
W.J.T. Mitchell Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Making Disability Matter: English Grad Student Recognized with Bridge Builder Award
For Archaeologists, Middle East Conflicts Create "Perfect Sandstorm" of Challenges
Gift from Randy and Melvin Berlin to bring leading public intellectuals to campus
Mellon Foundation grant to support art history initiative with UChicago, Northwestern, Art Institute
French Foreign Minister Presents Robert Morrissey with Legion of Honor
New Summer Language Institute Offers Courses on Wide Range of Languages
James Chandler, AM’72, PhD’78, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chicago Linguistics Society Celebrates 50th Annual Conference
Alumnus Dale Hoiberg, AM'74, PhD'93, Heads Editorial Team at Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bridging Historical and Economic Schools of Thought
Campus-Wide Festival Explores Chinese Arts and Culture
Haun Saussy Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
David Schloen and Virginia Herrmann, PhD’11 , Co-Curate Oriental Institute Exhibit on Death in the Ancient Middle East
Queen of Spain Honors Frederick de Armas and Julio Velez-Sainz, PhD’01
UChicago Celebrates Opening of Center in Delhi
Spring Lecture Series to Feature Distinguished Scholars, Writers, Artists
Composition by Augusta Read Thomas Garners National Media Attention
Ted Cohen, Philosopher Who Found the Extraordinary in the Ordinary, 1939–2014
Berthold Hoeckner Discusses Links Between Music and Memory
"Because" is 2013 Word of the Year; Jason Riggle Explains Why
Robert Morrissey-Led Project Receives Digital Humanities Grant from NEH
Malynne Sternstein Offers Close Reading of Nabokov Classic
UChicago Artists Well Represented at Whitney Biennial
Linguistics Alumna Defends the Listicle
Watch Innovative Piece Composed by Howard Sandroff
Named Professorships Honor Humanities Faculty Members
Human or Animal? Watch UChicago Scholars at 2013 Chicago Humanities Festival
GradUCon Connects Current Students with Successful Alumni
2014–2015 Neubauer Collegium Projects Announced
Revisit Humanities Day 2013 Online
College Art Association Honors UChicago Faculty
UChicago Alumnus and Harper-Schmidt Fellow Wins Book Award
Composition by Music PhD Student Receives International Recognition
Humanities Graduate Students Receive Fulbright-Hays Awards
Gary Tubb Appointed Inaugural Director for the Center in Delhi
Arnold I. Davidson Honored by French Government
Gift from Emmanuel Roman, MBA'87, to support Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Inaugural Vivekananda Visiting Professors Announced
Visit by William Kentridge Celebrates Launch of Neubauer Collegium
New Distinguished Service Professorships Recognize Outstanding Scholars
Library Digitizes Jazz Age Magazine
Visual Arts Alumna to Publish Work on Cloistered Nuns
Robert Morrissey Named to French Legion of Honor
Janice Knight Featured on City-Wide "Lit 50" List
Humanities Teaching Award Winners Recognized at Spring Convocation
Philip V. Bohlman Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Bart Schultz Wins Outstanding Educator Award
New Book Examines Legal Issues in Shakespeare
Rebecca Zorach Curates Exhibit for 'AFRICOBRA in Chicago'
Alumna and Philosophy Professor Featured in Food-centric 'Chicago Reader' Issue
Jessica Burstein, AM'90, PhD'98, Publishes Work on Fashion and Modernism
Jeff McMahon, AM'02, on the Writing of Roger Ebert, X'70
Faculty Members Lecture on Identity and Language in Videos from 2012 Chicago Humanities Festival
Patrick Jagoda on Digital Storytelling and Video Games as Texts
Jennifer Chiaverini, AM'92, Publishes Historical Novel
Tom Gunning Illustrates Small Details on the Big Screen
Justine Nagan, AM'04, Honored by New Leaders Council
Chicago Literature List Features English and Creative Writing Faculty Members
Watch Kate Zambreno, AM'02, Read from Her Memoir, 'Heroines'
Humanities Faculty Members Recognized with New Professorships
PhD Candidate Paul Durica's Historical Tours and Reenactments Highlighted in the 'Chicago Tribune'
Arnold I. Davidson Named Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Four Innovation Grants Awarded to Humanities Graduate Students
Humanities Faculty Members Well-Represented in Inaugural Neubauer Collegium Research Projects
William Nickell's Digital Mapping Project Featured in 'The Washington Post'
UChicago Faculty Members Included in Newcity Art's "Art 50: Chicago's Artist's Artists"
David Nirenberg on Anti-Judaism in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education'
Alumni Recognized for Service and Professional Achievement During Alumni Weekend
Lauren Berlant Interviewed in 'Xtra! Canada'
Jessica Stockholder, Current Students, and Alumni Discuss Color at Logan Center
Master Class: Graduate Students Discuss Teaching Methods with Peers
Contemporary Music Ensemble CUBE Performs at Fulton Hall
A-J Aronstein, AM'10, Featured in 'Paris Review Daily'
William Pope.L Profiled in 'Interview Magazine'
With Valentine's Day Approaching, Why Not Try an Ancient Greek Love Spell?
Richard G. Stern, 1928-2013
Valerie Snobeck, MFA’08, Creates Piece for Smart Museum Courtyard
Alumna Traces History of Bowl Belonging to Cleopatra Through 20th Century AD
Philosophy Alumnus Named Distinguished Professor at University of Southern Maine
Alumna Publishes Personal Look at Gender Politics in Figure Skating
Package Addressed to Indiana Jones to be Displayed at The Oriental Institute
Augusta Read Thomas Awarded Order of Lincoln
MFA Alumnus Turns Circuitous Career Path into Engaging Fiction
Forged in the Fringes, Peter Selz, AM'49, PhD'54, Reflects on his Career in Modern Art
Michael I. Allen Donates Rare Manuscripts to Honor University Librarians
Jason Grunebaum Shortlisted For South Asian Literature Award
MLA Prize Awarded to Larry Norman
Patrick Jagoda Discusses Time Travel, Video Games During Interdisciplinary Panel
Anthony Elms, MFA'95, to Co-Curate Whitney Museum's 2014 Biennial
Steven Rings Wins Emerging Scholar Award
UChicago Composers Share Creative Processes
UChicago Writers Include University in Cast of Characters
MA Program in the Humanities Launches Digital Publication
National Prize for Historic Music Awarded to Alumni-Led Ensemble
Civic Knowledge Project's Winning Words Program Wins Prize for Innovation
Exhibit Honors Campus Veterans through Display of Original Work and Artifacts
Doctoral Student Discusses Symbolism of Korean Art at Smart Museum
Grant Awarded to UChicago to Preserve Endangered Urdu Periodicals
Connection between Magic and Medicine in Ancient World Discussed during Recent Lectures
Michael Bourdaghs's New Book Traces Japanese Pop Music from post-WWII to 1990s
New Oriental Institute Curated by Graduate Student
'Invisible Man' Adaptation among Honors for Court Theatre
UChicago to Host Conference on Algonquian Studies
Laura Letinsky's Food Photography Featured in the 'New York Times'
Clifford Ando Receives Research Prize
Three Faculty Members Recognized With Named Professorships
Martha Nussbaum to Speak on Religious Intolerance, Oct. 9
President Zimmer Discusses the Arts on Campus in the 'Wall Street Journal'
Logan Center for the Arts to Celebrate Grand Opening with Three-Day Festival
Chicago Demotic Dictionary Featured in the 'New York Times'
Augusta Read Thomas to Premier Four New Compositions During 2012-13 Season
Four Faculty Members Win ACLS Fellowships for 2012-13
Former University of Chicago Staffer Publishes New Biography of Oriental Institute Founder
Time Out Chicago Unveils “Who’s-Who Inventory” of Chicago’s Cultural Curators
'Scrappers' Currently Screening at Siskel Film Center, Receives “Two Thumbs Up”
Kathy Fox wins 2009 Richman Award
Ted Foss weighs in on “I love you” in the 'Chicago Tribune'
'Sun-Times' spotlights Project Bamboo, Arno Bosse

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