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Humanities Professor Explores Hip Hop

April 20, 2011

Professor Reiland R abaka’s new book, Hip Hop’s Inheritance, explores the real roots of hip hop, from the Harlem Renaissance to the hip hop feminist movement. Rabaka investigates the evolution of black popular culture throughout history, even through “Obama’s America.” Hip Hop Inheritance is available through Lexington Books. For more...

Humanities Professor Receives Innovative Seed Grant

April 15, 2011

Brian Catlos (Religious Studies/ Humanities Core Faculty) has received an Innovative Seed Grant from the University of Colorado at Boulder for the academic year 2011-12. The award will fund a program which will include two visiting scholars, a reading group, and a three-day event in the spring. Gerard Wiegers (Religious...

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Humanities Major wins Jacob Van Ek Scholar Award

March 15, 2011

Humanities senior, Stephanie Strauss is one of twelve recipients of a Jacob Van Ek Scholar Award for 2011. As a student with severe dyslexia, Stephanie has worked hard to be successful academically. This includes spending thousands of hours of painstaking effort dedicated to improving her reading fluency. She is now...

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Coloradoan Spotlights Humanities’ Shipwrecks Course

March 14, 2011

The March 2011 edition of The Coloradoan shines the spotlight on our course, Shipwrecks, Mutinies and Other Catastrophes at Sea , taught by Professor Davide Stimilli. The sea is the natural theater of human history. It is the stage for mutinies, discoveries, acts of piracy, ecological disasters and deadly confrontations...

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Humanities professor witnesses Mubarak’s overthrow

Feb. 15, 2011

Humanities Professor Paul Gordon is currently on sabbatical in Egypt. You can read his perspective on the recent events, “Truly kind people of Egypt overthrow ruthless tyrant” at the Arts and Sciences Magazine.

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Prof. Giulia Bernardini Spotlighted in Daily Camera Article

Oct. 21, 2010

Professor Giulia Bernardini was pictured in the Daily Camera last Saturday (10/16) as part of an article about RAP (Residential Academic) Programs on the CU Boulder campus. CU has one of the premiere programs in the country with ten different RAPs currently, including the one Giulia teaches for in Libby...

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Prof. Gordon receives recognition award

Oct. 18, 2010

Representatives from the Alumni Association surprised Professor Paul Gordon recently during one of his lectures to announce that he has been selected as one of three honorees for the 2010 Teacher Recognition Awards. The Awards are the only student chosen awards for professors and have been a tradition since 1962...

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Coloradan magazine spotlights Professor Gordon

June 22, 2010

Humanities professor, Paul Gordon is featured in June’s issue of the Coloradan, the alumni magazine for the University of Colorado at Boulder. The article shines the spotlight on Gordon’s ever-popular Hitchcock and Freud class which he taught during the Maymester. This course applies Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic method of interpreting works...

Katherine Jacob Lamont Scholarship Awards

April 23, 2010

This year’s Lamont Scholarships go to Humanities majors Matt Holmes and Travis Allen. The scholarship is awarded to continuing Humanities students for their academic achievement, dedication and involvement in the major.

Chancellor's Recognition Award

April 16, 2010

Each semester, the students who have received A’s throughout their college careers are awarded the Chancellor’s Recognition Award during the commencement ceremony. This semester, Humanities major Lindsay Talbot is one of seven students earning this impressive distinction. Congratulations Lindsay!

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