News
Feb. 18, 2019
Read More
UA Among Top Producers of Foreign Language Degrees
The University of Arizona ranks among the top 10 universities in the nation for producing graduates with foreign language degrees. According to a new Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of U.S. Department of Education data for the 2016-17 academic year, the UA conferred 216 bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages, literatures and linguistics, ranking 10th among all universities.Read More
Image
Image
April 16, 2018
Erika Gault, an assistant professor of Africana Studies, has been selected as a 2018 recipient of the Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant for Minority Scholars.
Gault’s award of $40,000 will fund research over the coming academic year as she…
Image
April 12, 2018
The College of Humanities is one of six institutions participating in the Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives grant. The overall goal is to give librarians, archivists, and curators better methodology for the preservation of digital…
Image
March 28, 2018
Edgard Ore-Giron, an instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, won the prestigious 2018 Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award.
Ore-Giron is the third consecutive College of Humanities faculty member to win the…
Image
March 13, 2018
Four College of Humanities students will receive scholarship funds to study abroad as winners of the 2018 SILLC Global Award.
Created in 2010 by Lehman Benson, UA associate professor of management who was then acting director of Africana Studies,…
Image
March 12, 2018
The UA Humanities Seminars Program summer courses feature subjects from Hopi archaeology to classical art to Shakespeare and international detective fiction.
Founded in 1984, the university’s premier adult education series has enrolled more than 21,…
Image
March 8, 2018
Gloria Rivera, one of the top medical interpreter trainers at the UA's National Center for Interpretation, has received the 2018 Trainer of the Year Award from the California Healthcare Interpreter Association.
Rivera, a certified medical…
Image
March 7, 2018
As a professor at Michigan State University, Malcolm Compitello was part of a very good program in Spanish.
But what he saw at the University of Arizona was a setting and a community where Spanish was everywhere. The UA had a learning environment…
Image
March 7, 2018
Tani D. Sanchez, associate professor of Africana Studies, is a featured author at the Tucson Festival of Books.
Her 2017 book, Didn't Come From Nothing: An African-American Story of Life, presents a genealogical narrative that traces family roots…
Image
March 5, 2018
In 2017, Melissa Fitch of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese was selected as a University Distinguished Professor and now Fitch is the subject of a new profile video that looks at her work inside and outside of the classroom.
"University…
Image
Feb. 28, 2018
Congratulations to the Spring 2018 COH Graduate Student Research Grant awardees!
Spring 2018 COH Graduate Students Research Grant Awardees
Adolfo Bejar Lara
Spanish and Portuguese
Project: Community Beyond the State: Mexico City and the Crisis…
Image
Feb. 28, 2018
The College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program extend a heartfelt thanks to KXCI Community Radio for the partnership to celebrate Black History Month.
Each Monday during February, KXCI's Home Stretch program hosted a professor from Africana…
Image
Feb. 23, 2018
The Tucson Weekly published an interview with Religious Studies Professor Alex Nava, who will speak about the spiritual dimensions of hip-hop at the Tucson Hip Hop Festival on Saturday, Feb. 24. Both the College of Humanities and the Africana…