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A scholar’s path to policy
Adam Shapiro, AM’03, PhD’07, reflects on his path from the history of science to public service.Like many people who enroll in PhD programs, Adam Shap...
Setting the tone
James Kirby, AM’07, PhD’10, reflects on studying and teaching linguistics around the world.For speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, and many other languages,...
Life of the mind
The Cognitive Science major and minor train students to think differently about what makes us human.Faculty had tried multiple times over the years to...
New faculty fall 2026
The Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomes nine assistant professors. Canaan Breiss joins Linguistics as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor fro...
Our brains at work and play
A performance by TAPS and Manual Cinema meditates on how we (mis)use technology.What would you do with a brain if you had one?Dorothy’s question to th...
Two perspectives on consciousness
From AI chatbots to Paradise Lost, two scholars explore what consciousness is and how we came to think about it.Jason Bridges is an associate professo...
Dean’s message fall 2026
Dear Alumni and Friends,It is my pleasure to update you on the latest from the Division of the Arts & Humanities and the exceptional work of our stude...
Grasping the idea
Tracing a concept from Aristotle to Persian and English poetryIn “Two Perspectives on Consciousness,” Timothy Harrison, associate professor in English...
Handmade for history
Manual Cinema transformed letters to Barack Obama into a handcrafted film for the Obama Presidential Center.Sarah Fornace, AB’07, co–artistic director...
Making policy work
MAPH alumna Carolyn Caine, AM’08, improves the programs that put policy into practice.Like Adam Shapiro, AM’03, PhD’07, Carolyn Caine, AM’08, arrived ...