CCS Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi has released the catalogue of her Manichaean Art in Berlin Collections (Breplos 2001), in Persian translation by Sonia Mirzaie (Iranian Academy of Arts 2023). The 2001 publication addressed Manichean artwork and illuminated pieces from Turfan (in East Central Asia) found in two German institutions. Learn more in Global Art Magazine.
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The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund supports Public Humanities programming that advances the professional development of students and is community focused. Thanks to a generous grant from past NAU president Dr. Clara Lovett (1993-2001), the department of Comparative Cultural Studies will award two annual grants to teams of NAU faculty and students engaged in community-based public humanities projects. Two grants for up to $2000 each will be awarded each year. The deadline for submission is April 11,… Read more
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Apply today for the $5000 Gary Kane Comparative Cultural Studies Study Abroad Scholarship! Learn more here.
Congratulations to CCS Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent invitation to join the membership of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University! Dr. Gulácsi was awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Studies for spring 2024. While at Princeton, she will join the School of Historical Studies for the semester as she works on her sabbatical research project, “Manichaean Artifacts at Dunhuang Cave 17 and the ‘Book Cemeteries’ of… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Emily Lawhead (Art History and Asian Studies, minors in Japanese and Museum Studies, class of 2016)! In 2022, she received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture with a certificate in New Media & Culture from the University of Oregon and became the Editorial Manager for Peer Review at DAJH, a platform for digital art history… Read more