CCS was pleased to recognize the achievements of graduating senior Joce Dolezal with the Outstanding Senior award for spring 2024 at our awards ceremony… Read more
Congratulations to the CCS Outstanding Senior Joce Dolezal for spring 2024!
Public Humanities
Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick presented in Costa Rica on May 3 and May 6
CCS Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick presented this week on the topic of Memory and the Filibuster War in Costa Rica this May. Sponsored by the Secretary of Culture of the government of Costa Rica, he talked about “The Rise and Fall of May 1st: Commemoration and Politics in the Memory of the Filibuster War” at the Cultural Historical Juan Santamaria Museum, in Alajuela, on May 3rd, and at the Museum of Popular Culture, in Barva,… Read more
Congratulations to our junior book prize winners for spring 2024!
Congratulations to our junior book prize winners for spring 2024! CCS faculty, graduating seniors and scholarship and book prize winners gathered for our spring awards ceremony last week to celebrate our students and their achievements. The Junior Book Prize is awarded annually to a junior in each area (Art History, Asian Studies, Comparative Study of Religions, Public Humanities, and Museum Studies) who shows outstanding academic promise.
Read more Congratulations to our spring scholarship winners!
Congratulations to our scholarship winners for spring 2024! CCS faculty, graduating seniors and scholarship and book prize winners gathered for our spring awards ceremony last week to celebrate our students and their achievements.
… Read more Congratulations to Museum Studies minor Zadie Henthorn!
Congratulations to graduating senior and Museum Studies minor Zadie Henthorn! Zadie was accepted to the Master of Science in Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a focus on Rare Books and Archives. They recently began their career through a student position in Cline Library Special Collections and Archives and a cataloguing internship at Creative Flagstaff. They intend to pursue a career in collections management for a library or archive.
The humanities in action in CCS 201 this semester!
Students in Dr. Anabel Galindo’s CCS 201 Indigenous Cultural Expression explored a wide variety of topics throughout the semester, including science, history, environment, cosmology, arts, language, and food through lectures, guest speakers, and hands-on activities to gain better understand the complex and vibrant Indigenous world. Two classes featured activities to support their understanding of the challenges of preserving Indigenous cultural traditions and learning about the significance of food in different societies. During one session, students had the opportunity to… Read more