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Monica Muñoz Martinez stands on campus in front of two wooden doors. She is smiling widely and wearing a blue velvet blazer.

Bloody History, Historical Recovery

January 27, 2023 by Imani Evans

In The Injustice Never Leaves You, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, historian and MacArthur “genius” fellow Monica Martinez documents the disturbing history of anti-Mexican violence during a period of rapid growth and economic transformation for the Lone Star State.

This is the Work: Nine Things to Know About Amira Rose Davis

January 26, 2023 by Leora Visotzky

An assistant professor of sociology, Davis specializes in 20th-century American history with an emphasis on race, gender, sports, and politics. But there’s a lot more you should know about her.

Headshot of scholar and Professor Christen Smith

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

January 25, 2023 by Alaina Bookman

From its start at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 2018, Cite Black Women has developed into a movement. As founder and COLA professor Christen Smith has said, “I’m not fighting to be on someone’s bibliography. I’m fighting to have my intellectual self respected, and the intellectual work of my foremothers respected, the intellectual work of my sisters and friends respected.”

The Bell Tolls for WHOM: The complicated fate of the stuffiest object pronoun

October 21, 2022 by Kaulie Watson

Whom is dying out … mostly. As an essential part of grammatical English, that stuffy, old-fashioned object pronoun is declining in usage, and has been for more than a century. As a stylistic marker, though, it has some life left.

Silvio Berlusconi

How Populism Dies: Political scientist Kurt Weyland sees a bright-ish future for liberal democracy 

October 21, 2022 by Daniel Oppenheimer

A longtime scholar of democratization and its discontents, Kurt Weyland’s work over the past few years has focused on explaining in detail why we are not, despite some appearances, in the midst of either a crisis of global democracy or an ascendant wave of illiberal populism.

White marble ancient Roman bust found at Goodwill and brought to UT Austin experts strapped into carseat

Antiquities Road Show Busts Its Way to UT

October 16, 2022 by Lauren Macknight

In October of 2018, Austin-based antiques dealer Laura Young purchased a marble bust at Goodwill for $34.99. Suspecting that the sculpture might be a much greater find, Young reached out to The University of Texas at Austin professors Rabun Taylor (Classics), Stephennie Mulder (Art & Art History), and Penelope Davies (Art & Art History), to understand more about the piece. As it turns out, the artifact was indeed a find dating to ancient Rome, approximately the late first century B.C. or early first century A.D.

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