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During normal circumstances, our Outstanding Senior would be recognized at a banquet hosted by the College of Arts & Letters. We encourage you to recognize Emma's achievements on the CCS Facebook page since we cannot honor Emma at the annual banquet. We are very proud of Emma and all her accomplishments! The Public Humanities faculty nominated CCS major (emphasis in Public Humanities) Emma Parish for the CCS Outstanding Senior award for spring 2020. Dr. Gioia Woods writes "Emma exemplifies what…

Under normal circumstances, the department of Comparative Cultural Studies honors its scholarship recipients and winners of the Junior Book Prize in a ceremony during the spring semester. We are incredibly proud of our students and invite you to congratulate them on their awards on our department Facebook page. Dominic Counihan CCS major (emphasis Comparative Study of Religions) Dominic Counihan will receive the Lakeview United Methodist Scholarship. He is from Tehachapi in California and is also pursuing a major in Military…

Humanities West in San Francisco invited Dr. Carpino to speak at their 2020 series Etruscan Italy: Life and Afterlife. An internationally recognized expert in Etruscan art, Dr. Carpino will present "Quintessentially Etruscan: Art and Architecture from the Villanovan to the Etrusco-Roman Period" on February 29, 2020. Her talk will explore how analysis of Etruscan art reveals a remarkable Mediterranean culture. From the 9th century on, Etruscan and immigrant artists and craftsmen created temples, tombs, vases, jewelry and more for individuals eager to communicate…

It is never too early to decide to advance your degree progress by taking summer courses offered by Comparative Cultural Studies!

The NAU Aspirations website features the hopes, dreams, and goals of Lumberjack students, faculty, and staff. Comparative Cultural Studies Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and director of the Martin Springer Institute Björn Krondorfer frequently provides students with opportunities to participate in public humanities projects focused on original research. During spring 2020, undergraduate and graduate students began archiving a box of World War II photos donated to the Martin Spring Institute under the direction of Dr. Krondorfer. Learn more…

It is never too early to decide to advance your degree progress by taking summer courses offered by Comparative Cultural Studies!       

Congratulations to CCS Art History alum Margaret Sheble, recipient of the 2020-2021 Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fellowship in Medieval Studies at Rochester University! Margaret Sheble is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Purdue University. Her dissertation project, “Arthurian Women and the Autonomy of Suicide,” argues that suicides in “Arthurian texts reflect wider concerns of ideal heteronormativity, gender roles, and one’s faithfulness to the Arthurian community.” Her investigation of medieval attitudes toward suicide incorporates texts and images from the English, French,…

Lecturer Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges will be speaking at Arizona State University on October 8 on different kinds of careers for art historians as part of an invited alumni speaking series hosted by the School of Art in Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Congratulations to Comparative Study of Religions Lecturer Dr. Diana Coleman on her recent article, "El Sur También Existe: Imagining futures" in Cultural Dynamics Volume 31 Issue 4!   Abstract: Guantánamo is infamous as a site of extra-legal detention in the wake of 9/11; more than a single site, it is part of a web of the United States’ militarization operating in the Global South. An area of the military base is now being revitalized as a new camp for climate…

Congratulations to Public Humanities Lecturer Dr. Patrick Pynes! He received the Arizona Forward 2018 Crescordia Award for Environmental Excellence for his collaborative work with the Northern Arizona Pollinator Habitat Initiative (NAPHI). NAPHI won the award for Site Development and Landscape for their innovative work in support of endangered pollinators, such as monarch butterflies, native bees, and honeybees. NAU staff, students, and faculty worked together for two years to support NAPHI's commitment to create, protect, and register pollinator habitats across northern…

Congratulations to art historian Dr. Tara Kohn! She received an honorable mention award for her Fall 2018 essay, "Elevated: Along the Fringes of 291 Fifth Avenue", in the Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art Panorama  in the competition for the Director's Essay Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.    

Congratulations to Public Humanities Professor Gioia Woods on her recent publication Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West (University of Nevada Press, 2018)! In this edited collection, Dr. Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural Left in the American West—as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in major eastern metropolitan centers. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary…