CCS students and faculty represented the department at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7, 2024! Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges, Dr. Diana Coleman, and Dr. Gioia Woods set up and worked our table filled with swag and flyers with CCS majors Joce Dolezal and Ella Conner as well as CCS intern Colin Grosvenor. Dr. Woods also moderated the featured panel, Entangled Spaces: Past, Present, & Future with the CAL 2023-2024 Arts & Humanities Fellows, which included CCS Assistant Teaching… Read more
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Upcoming Career Workshops in March
Join the College of Arts and Letters for a series of career workshops in March! These are designed to support students with essential skills for their professional journey at NAU and beyond. The workshops will cover a variety of topics critical to career readiness and success, including resume building, interview preparation, networking strategies, and more. Learn more at https://nau.edu/college-arts-letters/events/workshops/.
March 6 Networking and Your Personal Narrative
3 p.m. SBS Castro Room 225
March 18 Internship Basics: Applying
1 p.m.… Read more
The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund Call for Proposals
The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund supports Public Humanities programming that advances the professional development of students and is community focused. Thanks to a generous grant from past NAU president Dr. Clara Lovett (1993-2001), NAU’s Department of Comparative Cultural Studies will award two annual grants to teams comprised of NAU faculty and students who are engaged in community-based Public Humanities projects. Two grants for up to $2000 each will be awarded each year. The deadline for submission… Read more
Summer 2024 research support for NAU students at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Martin-Springer Institute (MSI) is offering a stipend for one qualified NAU graduate or advance undergraduate student to pursue a research-based project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington D.C.
Application deadline: Friday April 5, 2024 (noon)
The MSI provides financial support of up to $4,000 to cover expenses for one NAU student spending a minimum of 10 weekdays in the USHMM archives and library in Washington D.C. The stipend is meant to cover expenses for airfare, local… Read more
Opening of “Disappeared: Portraits of Absence” at Coconino Center for the Arts
CCS Museum Studies minors often complete internships with the Martin-Springer Institute each semester. Several students contributed this last semester to the planning of the exhibit “Disappeared: Portraits of Absence” at the Coconino Center for the Arts, which opened this past Thursday. Missed the opening? Check out the exhibit March 2-23 in the Project Gallery. Learn more here.Read more
Alumni news: CCS alum Holly Filsinger now the Collections Specialist at Black Mountain College Museum
Congratulations to CCS alum Holly Filsinger on her new position as the Collections Specialist at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center. Holly recently graduated from Illinois State University with a M.A. in Visual Culture in 2023. She graduated from NAU with a B.A. in Comparative Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Arts & Cultural Management in 2018. Holly writes, ”
I’m happy to share that I’ve started a new position as the Collections Specialist at Black Mountain College… Read more