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Humanities Division Returns to Rockefeller Chapel for 536th Convocation
While many still wore masks, graduates celebrated their first Division of the Humanities Convocation ceremony on June 3 in Rockefeller Chapel since 20...
Humanities Graduate Students Are Pivotal to the Success of Transcending Boundaries Symposium
Since elementary school, Rachel Chery has been a leader in diversity work. This spring, the Humanities Division doctoral candidate in Music spearheade...
UChicago Instructors, Grad Students Honored in 2022 for Exceptional Teaching
The following was published in UChicago News on May 26, 2022.
The University of Chicago has honored nine instructors and graduate students for their e...
Kate Petroff, a Doctoral Student in Philosophy, Earns Freund Prize
The following was published on the University of Chicago Law School website on May 16, 2022.
Spencer Caro, ’23, and Kate Petroff, a UChicago graduat...
Humanities Doctoral Student's Creative Vent Turns into Career
For several summers, Isabel Lachenauer had a secret. During her doctoral program at UChicago, she wrote a novel each summer, channeling her anxious en...
How the University's First Ph.D. Graduate Strengthened Ties Between Chicago and Japan
The following was published in UChicago News on January 18, 2022.
In the late 1880s, a young Japanese scholar named Eiji Asada came to the Chicago ar...
Graduate Student Council Reconnects Community Amid the Pandemic
The pandemic didn’t just disrupt in-person classes. It interrupted many social activities that help friendships develop and flourish for graduate stud...
Division of the Humanities Recognizes Student and Faculty Scholarship at the 534th Convocation
As the pandemic winds down, the Division of the Humanities at UChicago conducted its Convocation on Friday, June 11, at Amos Alonzo Stagg Field in Chi...
100 Years Ago, Georgiana Simpson Made History as the First Black Woman to Graduate with a Ph.D.
The following was published in UChicago News on June 10, 2021.
In the summer of 1907, Georgiana Rose Simpson left Washington, D.C., to pursue a bache...
Drawn from Music: Art Exhibition Opens Window into Composers' Creative Process
The following was published in UChicago News on February 19, 2021.
For composers, drawing a “map” of music can give shape to a new work and articulat...