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Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks
“My research is primarily about the way in which we are all constituted as citizens—whatever regime we live under—by a set of rights and duties, and about the legal scaffolding that makes those rights and duties a reality (or not).”
Demystifying Pre-Law: A Crash (Canvas) Course
Liberal Arts Career Services helps thousands of would-be law students navigate the pre-law process. Now, with the launch of a new Canvas page, that support is more available than ever.
Professor Partners with Ugandan University for Primate Conservation
Aaron Sandel on studying chimpanzee behavior and avoiding “parachute science”
Grad School Days
When I arrived in graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970s, Austin felt like a foreign land
Selling the Liberal Arts: Back to the Future
On the liberal arts as time machine, now machine, why machine, and so what machine
The Aims of a Presidential Assassin
On the history — and meaning — of the modern presidential assassination attempt
Meet Juan Pablo Abalo, LLILAS Artist-in-Residence
The Chilean composer, musical producer, and artist will be the first artist-in-residence at LLILAS in recent history
A Place to Belong
With her gift to the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UT, Mary Braunagel-Brown supports students as they find their footing on campus
Mākua’s Futures
Laurel Mei-Singh on the possibilities for life after militarism in Hawai’i
The King and I
On receiving the Vega Medal — and meeting the king of Sweden, Carl Gustav XVI
Lost in the Sauce
Ashanté Reese on the beautiful, the useful, and being on Team Too Much
Making Things, Making Meaning
Jürgen Streeck on linguistics, hip-hop, and car mechanics
Die in the Saddle
And other things I learned from Paul Woodruff
2024 Keene Prize in Literature Winners
The 2024 Keene Prize goes to Laurel Faye for an excerpt from her novel “Seal, Wife.”
Taking the Liberal Arts on the Offensive
How do you sell the liberal arts in a world where they’re frequently portrayed as on the decline and on the defensive?
Free Time Done Right
What should we moderns take from from both Catullus’s warnings against leisure and his embrace of it?
Polish Club Founder Graduates to International Stage
Nathan Silverstein came to UT Austin from Los Angeles, but it’s easy to see his heart beats in Poland, connected with his heroic ancestors as well as the modern population still reaching to secure democracy.
Politics of Religion, Religion of Politics
Three UT Austin scholars discuss the link between religion and politics, from Obeah in Trinidad to the religious right in the U.S.
Food Sovereignty — and Presentation Practice — at Planet Texas 2050
Third-year COLA student Shannon Henry has never been a fan of public speaking. Yet, in late February, she found herself presenting a poster at Planet Texas 2050 on “Food Sovereignty for a Secure Future.”
“Hungry for Revolution”
Joshua Frens-String’s book, “Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile,” explores the role of food politics and policy during Chile’s Popular Unity government.
Faculty Spotlight: Lori Holt
Dr. Lori Holt joined the Department of Psychology faculty this past year as a professor. Her research in the auditory cognitive neuroscience field has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and many other organizations.
Education, Dementia, and COLA’s Largest-Ever Grant
Lead investigator and sociology professor Chandra Muller on the first year of her record-breaking project
Extra Credit: Why Comics Matter
“Pyroclast,” Professor Latinx, and 12 comics to prove a point
Social Inquiry, Science, and Light Espionage with Megan Raby
Megan Raby, a historian of science and the environment whose latest book won the History of Science Society’s Philip J. Pauly Prize, discusses her current book project and the fascinating ways in which her area of study draws from multiple disciplines.