College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

History’s Smith Named a Finalist for 2013 Top Teaching Award

John David Smith, Charles Stone Distinguished Professor of History, was one of five finalists for the 2013 Bank of America (BofA) Award for Teaching Excellence – the University’s top teaching honor. Kim Buch, professor in the Department of Psychology, was named the recipient during a Sept. 20 reception. Of the five finalists, three were from […]

English’s West named a finalist for 2013 BofA Teaching Award

Mark West, chair and professor in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, was one of five finalists for the 2013 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence – UNC Charlotte’s top teaching honor.

Psychology Learning Community Students Lend a Hand to Habitat for Humanity Build

Psychology Learning Community students came together on a hot, muggy Friday afternoon to fund raise for the UNC Charlotte Habitat for Humanity house, participating in a university-wide effort to raise $49,000 and build a house for a Habitat family.

Center City Literary Festival to Feature Authors, Artists

The first Center City Literary Festival will pair authors with artists for a community creative event on Saturday, October 12, at UNC Charlotte’s Center City. The festival will offer a carnival-like program for children in the afternoon and a salon-like program for adults in the evening.  The children’s program will take place from noon to […]

Psychology Professor Wins Highest Teaching Honor

Psychology professor Kimberly Buch is the 2013 recipient of the highest teaching honor bestowed by UNC Charlotte, the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.

Mt. Zion Dig Reveals Possible Early Roman Period Priestly Mansion

In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site’s continuous use over millennia. But when an area has also been abandoned for intermittent periods, paradoxically there may be even richer finds uncovered, as […]

Anthropology Graduate Student Receives Phi Kappa Phi Award

Danay Downing, a master’s student in anthropology and a graduate certificate student in cognitive science, used her Love of Learning fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to conduct primate research this summer.

UNC Charlotte History Faculty Member Co-Authors Book on Mexican History

History Department Chair Jürgen Buchenau has just published a new book with Gilbert M. Joseph of Yale University, titled “Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century.”

Brave New Teenagers: Basu’s Book Speaks to Dystopian Fiction

English faculty member Balaka Basu’s co-edited volume Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers, considers dystopian fiction from literary and political perspectives.

Africana Studies Faculty Member Publishes on Mediating Culture

Africana Studies faculty member Debra C. Smith is the co-author of a recently published article on Mediating Culture: Media Literacy and Cultural Awareness.