2019 Anteater's gift guide
Literature by UCI Humanities faculty and alumni spotlighted
Taking art to unexpected places
UCI art history alumna finds career success through internships
Axis of hope
UCI professor's new book documents women's rights activists and activism in Iran and the diaspora
Revisiting medieval times
UCI professor's courses show the relevance and intrigue of the past
UCI Podcast: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The acclaimed writer shares the tale of his prison captivity and writing the influential novel, Devil on the Cross
Designing for play
UCI alumna leveling up in gaming world
Giving to keep a language alive
UCI alumnus funds second-year Western Armenian course
Bilingual booster
First-gen senior majoring in both Spanish and education sciences hopes to become an academic counselor in low-income communities
Humanity in focus
Award-winning film and media studies alumnus uses film to tell authentic stories
Visual studies doctoral student is named to 1804 List of Haitian American change-makers
UCI Ph.D. student has been included on The Haitian Roundtable's 1804 List for 2019
David Fedman wins prize for best article on historical link between tech and environment
UCI historian has received the 2019 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize
Philosophy for the masses
Ph.D. student runs engaging kiosk at cafés and farmers market
MOOCS with a message
UCI faculty create massive open online courses to counter extremism
Chance and dance
UCI professor's book provides fresh perspective on choreographer Merce Cunningham
Keeping it real
UCI historians launch podcast blending history and reality TV
Shaking the family tree
UCI alumna discovers complicated ancestry via Slave Voyages database that UCI professor helped create
A humanity seen
Writer and UCI professor Héctor Tobar wants you to tell your story
Five senate faculty retire from UCI School of Humanities
Please join us in celebrating the five senate faculty who retired from the UCI School of Humanities this spring
A call to empathy
James Kyung-Jin Lee shares vision for UCI Center for Medical Humanities
Centering the human experience
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu to lead UCI Humanities Center
Social media for good
UCI alumna leads crowdsourcing effort for Netflix's "Diagnosis"
Media Advisory
UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies to present Korean hip-hop conference, concert
Imagining Los Angeles
New book by Barry Siegel traces rise of metropolis to the 1932 Olympics
Lifelong learner
UCI alumnus honors the classics
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in history wins 2019 Native American 40 Under 40 award
Holly Guise has received a 2019 Native American 40 Under 40 award
Keeping up with Korean pop culture
A Q&A with UCI professor and founding director of the Center for Critical Korean Studies, Kyung Hyun Kim
Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change
Tyrus Miller, Dean of the School of Humanities, and Steven D. Allison, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, posit that a strong partnership between the humanities and science is an imperative step for progress.
Robert Folkenflik, UCI professor emeritus of English and literary scholar, dies at 80
Remembering Robert Folkenflik and his 44 years at UCI
Ngugi wa Thiong'o receives honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Edinburgh
Honorary degree conferred on Ngugi wa Thiong'o in recognition of his leadership in shifting the focus and language of African writing
Curating 1,000 years of art
A Q&A with visual studies alumna and chief curator at the Autry, Amy Scott
Distinguished Professor is awarded the 2019 Lebowitz Prize for achievement in philosophy
Margaret P. Gilbert will be honored in April 2020
Cultivating an inclusive culture
A Q&A with historian and chief diversity officer Douglas Haynes
Rebel waltzes into the future
UCI alumnus plans to speak candidly to 2019 grads
Matthew P. Canepa is named to endowed chair in art history and archaeology of ancient Iran
Position cements UCI as a destination for the study of Iran
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus wins award from Society for Study of Southern Literature
For "The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White"
Arts trek
Class boldly goes on 1,900-mile mission to explore artworks embedded in the environment
Dissecting Disneyland
New UCI course examines inner workings and idiosyncrasies of theme park
Zotfest marks 20th anniversary
UCI student film festival takes place June 3 at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Distinguished Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o wins 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize
For "Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature"
Natural Storyteller
From founding a magazine to making a living as an influencer, senior Aditi Mayer has a good story to tell
Challenging the standard
UCI professor studies how languages change, blend
Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture receives $50,000 gift
Support for lectures, conferences and other programs
Anime planet
New class on Japanese animation examines globalization, sociocultural context of popular film genre
Cyber Shakespeare
New online course is first of its kind to bring the world of Will to life for all UC students
Collecting stories
UCI professor documents the diversity of the Asian American community
A physician-scholar first
UCI grad student Sarah O'Dell is pursuing both an M.D. and a doctorate in the humanities
Curating the past & future
UCI professors organize daylong symposium on art during the age of Black power
UCI Humanities graduate students awarded fellowships
Funding will cover travel and dissertation completion
Margherita Long earns UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship
Fellowship will support completion of her book on Fukushima
Bauhaus at 100
Look at your iPhone, or go to IKEA - the legacy of the artistic and social movement lives on
Bringing forgotten queer history to the forefront
Ph.D. candidate Finley Freibert takes LGBT approach to visual studies
Leading with heart
UCI alumna pays it forward in business and life
Vicki Ruiz earns distinguished service award from the Organization of American Historians
Award recognizes those who have significantly enriched the understanding and appreciation of American history
Celebrating Latinx excellence
UCI honors several humanities scholars
Why Asian Americans never seem to get sick
A Q&A with James Kyung-Jin Lee, associate professor of Asian American studies
Beyond financial literacy
UCI scholars examine creative works that represent and critique economies
UCI co-leads project adding 11,400 intra-American journeys to Slave Voyages database
Scholarly reach and public impact of highly utilized humanities resource are expanded
Early education advocate
UCI alumnus puts humanities in action
Connecting history
UCI professor spotlights Armenian revolutionaries
Cinema of financial despair
UCI professor's book explores cinema after South Korea's economic collapse
Penning protest
UCI professors edit anthology of unruly writing
Zine queen
UCI professor's teaching and scholarship make space for marginalized voices
Four reasons the future will rely on humanities majors
As new technological and scientific advancements are made, humanists are needed at every turn
Asia (hyphen) America
UCI professor explores Asian-American fiction, identity
Curating Hollywood history
UCI alumna on mission to bring history of Hollywood icons to the public
Math geek/lit prof
UCI English professor explores intersection of Victorian mathematics and culture
Textbook on Chinese poetry by UCI professor of East Asian studies awarded Buchanan Prize
Michael A. Fuller, has won the Association for Asian Studies' Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for high-quality curriculum materials on Asia.
Confronting climate change
Interdisciplinary experts will convene on campus for two-day public conference on looming existential threat
Spotlight on Douglas M. Haynes
Historian leads campus-wide inclusion efforts and Center for Medical Humanities
Professor emerita of history is awarded top honor in field of American foreign relations
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has bestowed the 2018 Norman and Laura Graebner Award on Emily Rosenberg
UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism
Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations
Literary journalism at UCI: The backstory
The who, what, when, where and why of the only such major in the nation
Making history
History faculty member and Ph.D. student build career pathways for history grad students
Foodie historian
UCI Ph.D. candidate explores American food legislation
His best shots
Sports Illustrated photographer Robert Beck '77 reflects on six of his favorite pics
Reconstructing Latin America's African past
UCI professor uses linguistics, DNA to help long-isolated Colombian community descended from escaped slaves find its roots
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