Oscar Cásares brings the border to the stage
Features
A Tale of Three Nations
Sociologist Kim Pernell on what financial policy can tell us about what nations do or don’t prioritize — and why
Who’s Counting?
Anat Schechtman on non-quantitative notions of infinity
Blog
With Lessons Learned in Northern Ireland, Students Aim to Improve Healing Spaces on UT Campus
As part of an initiative funded by the President’s Award for Global Learning, four students bring trauma-informed design to UT campus
Graduate Student Spotlight: Gwen Ruth Jones
Diving into the archaeology of childhood in Eckley
Anthropology Professor Advocates for Fulbright Pakistan Scholars
Last year Kamran Ali welcomed 117 Fulbright Scholars from Pakistan to the Forty Acres
Just Like Football
Why we should think about liberal arts education as drilling students for the game of life
Teaching & Learning
Law, Societies, and Justice for All
UT’s Initiative for Law, Societies, and Justice unites scholars, researchers, students, and community organizers in the pursuit of a more equitable criminal justice system
Where the Great Books Live
The Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas relies on the great books to prepare its students for the future
Hunting Oppenheimer
Bruce Hunt regularly teaches a course at UT on the “History of the Atomic Bomb” — and he has a few quibbles with Christopher Nolan’s latest film
Research
Modeling Disability Justice, One Relative Unit of Forward Movement at a Time
Alison Kafer and Julie Minich are using their institutional platform — along with a financial boost from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — to make waves in the field of disability studies
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Has Some Questions For You
An experienced journalist turned university professor, Rivas-Rodriguez is leading CMAS through its largest oral history project yet
Tom Cook’s Legacy
UT anthropologist Maria Franklin spotlights Black history in Bolivar, Texas
Books
Writing Portraits
Javier Auyero on his new book, “Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America”
Eye of Guaraná
Historian Seth Garfield tells the rich cultural and commercial story of guaraná, the world’s most caffeine-rich plant
