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
Spring 2024
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
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
The Re-Enfranchised, in Theory and Practice
Political scientist Hannah Walker explores how to bring the formerly incarcerated back into political participation.
Kingship, Godship, Scholarship
Azfar Moin locates the roots of secularism in the sacred kingship of Emperor Akbar
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?
Poetry, Goats, Revolution
Oksana Lutsyshyna’s new novel explores a little-known Ukrainian protest movement and the weight of change
Free Time Done Right
What should we moderns take from from both Catullus’s warnings against leisure and his embrace of it?
Eye of Guaraná
Historian Seth Garfield tells the rich cultural and commercial story of guaraná, the world’s most caffeine-rich plant
Democracy Then
Classicist Naomi Campa on how studying the past can illuminate the present.
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
Falling for Vertigo
Students in Doug Bruster’s “‘Vertigo’ In Context” course take film analysis to new heights.
We Have the Best Stories
Ward Keeler on life as an anthropologist.