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Your opera
Graduate student performers embody anarchy at the opera to cap off the 2025 Berlin Family Lectures.
With minimal rehearsal time and a sparsely set st...
From the dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,It is my pleasure to write to you as dean of the officially renamed Division of the Arts & Humanities, our new moniker reflect...
The nimble minds of MADD
Media Arts and Design program spurs creativity and careers in the College.
At the DuSable Black History Museum this past spring, Josh Nkhata, AB’25, ...
Out of the cave
Philosophy junior faculty explore knowledge, freedom, and human action.
“Their interests are diverse,” says Matthew Boyle, Philosophy chair and Emers...
Working for sustainability
How two Humanities alumnae built careers that confront climate change
Ann Goodman, AB’72, AM’73, PhD’81, and Anne Stephenson, AM’01, PhD’07, took skil...
Humanities and STEM
New DIGS master’s program upgrades Arts & Humanities students’ digital tools.
Liang-Chun Wu, AM’24, studied architecture at the Chinese University of...
Meet the Staff: Joshua Oaks
More than 100 staff members work in the Division of the Humanities. We’ll introduce you to our staff in this continuing series.
Joshua Oaks
Direc...
Fugitive records
A UChicago English PhD brings a forgotten emancipation narrative back to life.
In 1855 the Australian newspaper The Empire published a 20,000-word ar...
Two perspectives on representing climate change
A historian–postcolonial theorist and a literature scholar make sense of a global crisis.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished...
“Wrong and strong”
CAMPAIGN, a two-day event, celebrated the lasting influence of artist and scholar Pope.L.
This past October, more than 400 people gathered at the Rev...