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A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,Publicly focused work from the Humanities Division punctuated the 2016–17 academic calendar. This scholarship and artistry ema...
An interview with Dean Robertson
The Dean answers a few questions from Tableau about her own scholarship.In April, Anne Walters Robertson, the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service P...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,The Oxford English Dictionary defines “signature” as “a distinctive technique, attribute, product, etc., which is identified o...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,“Virtue stands in the middle.” I paused when I found this inscription in a fifteenth-century sacred musical composition by Fle...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,The Division of the Humanities remains committed equally to foundational fields of knowledge and to the pursuit of new lines o...
A Message from the Dean
On my office shelf sit 14 well-worn volumes of Assyrian and Babylonian Letters, a monumental work by the early UChicago professor of Assyriology Rober...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Friends,For this issue of Tableau, I turn my traditional dean’s letter over to Karla Scherer, the chair of the Humanities visiting committee. Thi...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,At the University of Chicago, we take great pride in the fact that the most senior members of our faculty teach and advise stu...
A Message from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,In the humanities there is a productive tension between the emergence of new fields and new technologies and the preservation ...
From the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends, The inherent value of humanistic research and instruction remains a subject of debate in the popular media. I imagine that ma...