Alumni

James Chandler, AM’72, PhD’78, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

James Chandler, the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Alumnus Dale Hoiberg, AM'74, PhD'93, Heads Editorial Team at Encyclopaedia Britannica

Dale Hoiberg, AM'74, PhD'93

When Dale Hoiberg, AM’74, PhD’93, started at Encyclopaedia Britannica, he thought it would be a one-year hiatus from his doctoral studies. Thirty years later Hoiberg is Britannica’s editor in chief.

Campus-Wide Festival Explores Chinese Arts and Culture

"Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts and Culture," February-June 2014

Since February, “Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts and Culture” has explored the influence of Chinese arts and culture, particularly opera, in knitting together the vast Chinese empire through a range of cultural events on campus spanning from live opera performances to a contemporary video installatio

David Schloen and Virginia Herrmann, PhD’11 , Co-Curate Oriental Institute Exhibit on Death in the Ancient Middle East

This stela with hieroglyphic text asks the living to leave food or to say prayers evoking food for a deceased man and his wife. (Egypt, ca. 2219–1995 B.C. OIM E16955) Photo by Anna R. Ressman

A new exhibit at the Oriental Institute curated by two Division of the Humanities scholars explores how the living cared for the dead in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant.

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