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UChicago Arts & Humanities Day Returns to Showcase Luminous Makers and Thinkers
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Annual celebration spotlights UChicago scholars and artists, visiting luminaries, and special exhibitions across campus.
Library of Congress awards John W. Kluge Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum
Prestigious award recognizes renowned UChicago scholar’s achievements in study of humanity
Making History of the Recent Past
With Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years, Art History PhD student Jenny Harris considers how we interpret a period we are still living through
The Liberty and the Right to Study the Arts and Humanities
Deputy Dean Eric Slauter’s column for the Chicago maroon explains how the arts and humanities are a defining element of a UChicago education.
New hire Ann Lui poised to shape architecture studies at UChicago
Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts brings nationally recognized design practice, adding her interdisciplinary vision to Art History Departmen...
From Home Movies to History: Jacqueline Stewart Named Getty Scholar
As a 2026-2027 Fellow, Stewart will develop a new book drawn from two decades of the South Side Home Movie ProjectWhen Jacqueline Stewart, MacArthur F...
Remembering Joel Snyder, scholar, teacher, and steward of photographic culture
Contending with received wisdom, the Art History Emeritus Professor encouraged that thought begin with scrupulous lookingFor over five decades, Joel S...
From Climate Cinema to Ancient Law: Meet the 2026 Arts & Humanities Award Recipients
540th Convocation Honors Winners Who Put Scholarship into Practice
James M. Redfield, renowned scholar of the ancient Greek world, 1935-2026
Longtime UChicago professor remembered as a ‘profoundly original’ thinker and encouraging teacher
Andrew Pettegree Delivers 2026 Paleography and the Book Visiting Scholar Lecture
On May 13, historian Andrew Pettegree, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, delivered this year’s Paleography a...