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The humanities teach us to question the world around us in order to better understand our place within it. In the humanities, we seek to understand the nuances of cultural issues, to interpret human experience, and to appreciate the power of words and ideas. By studying humanities, we broaden our historical, ethical, social and international perspectives while enhancing ourselves intellectually and creatively.

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Perspectives 2020 - 2021

The disciplines of the humanities provide tools for understanding, contextualizing and coping with powerful cultural and social transitions. This issue of Perspectives highlights some of the ways students and faculty are reflecting on the topic of change. Click below to read the Perspectives articles online and be on the lookout for a physical copy in mailboxes soon.

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Why Humanities with Doug Bowser

Doug Bowser majored in the humanities at the U knowing the skills he would obtain – writing, communication, creative thinking and problem solving – would benefit him in any career path. He has leveraged these skills to take him from marketing at Proctor and Gamble to being President of one of the most recognized brands in the world. He was named president of Nintendo of America in April 2019, overseeing the company’s business operations throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Humanities Radio Latest Episode

Comm 3520| Spring 2022 Episodes

Comm 3520 explores radio journalism and exposes students to news writing, reporting, covering a beat, interviewing sources and producing news for broadcast. These episodes are a collection of students’ final projects covering topics such as Covid, Utah history, environmental politics, and the fight against anti-Asian sentiment. Click Here to Listen

News

Maureen Mathison receives inaugural Robert A. Goldberg Prize

Maureen Mathison, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, has received the inaugural Robert A. Goldberg Endowed Faculty Prize in the Humanities. The prize recognizes faculty whose record in teaching and research reflects high merit and provides a stipend to support the faculty member’s ongoing projects.
Memorializing victims of lynching: Soil collection ceremony

The Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Coalition of Sema Hadithi African American Heritage & Culture Foundation in collaboration and Partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama will host a soil collection ceremony (raciallynchinginutah.org) at the sites of two racial lynchings that occurred in Salt Lake City in 1866 and 1883. The event will take place on Saturday, June 11 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Awards

Ben Cohen Announced as AIIS Fellowship Recipient

Ben Cohen, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of Utah, has received a senior fellowship award from the American Institute of Indian Studies to carry out his project, “Beyond Forests: Teak and the Making of Modern India c. 1700-2000.”
French Professor Wins Malcolm Bowie Prize

Vanessa Brutsche, assistant professor of French at the University of Utah, has been awarded the Malcolm Bowie Prize by the Society for French Studies for the most outstanding article published by an early-career researcher. Her winning article, “Duras’s Aurélia Steiner and the Ethics of Cinematic Form,” appeared in the journal French Studies (published by Oxford University Press) in July 2020.