Humanities | Amanda Womac

Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

This year, American pet owners will spend close to $100 billion on their pets, but these exorbitant spending habits have not always been the norm. A little over a century ...Read More

National History Day

History leaps off the pages of books and into the lives of middle and high school students during National History Day, a year-long education program for middle and high ...Read More

Studying the Memory of War

Memory creates powerful narratives that inform several aspects of a nation’s identity. During the summer of 2018, undergraduate students at UT will travel to Europe and ...Read More

From Buddhist Scriptures to Distilled Spirits

As an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, Nancy Fraley (’93) learned how to learn. After graduating with a degree in religious studies, Fraley went ...Read More

Diversity of Thought: Environmental Ethics

John Nolt—a self-described nerd—began his career in the Department of Philosophy teaching philosophical logic. However, like Marvel comic characters, such as Spider-Man, ...Read More

Diversity of the Past: Classical Archaeology

Stephen Collins-Elliott spent the 2015-16 academic year as a fellow at the UT Humanities Center, which not only allowed him to work on his book manuscript, but also gave him ...Read More

Diversity of Writing: Creative Nonfiction

Margaret Lazarus Dean, director of the creative writing program in the Department of English, learned to write fiction. Her latest book, however, is a work of creative ...Read More

Celebrating conversos and 400 years of Ets Haim

In the 1600s, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who were forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism, fled to Amsterdam in order to return to Judaism in a tolerant society. They ...Read More