College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

(Pictured, from left: Chancellor Philip L. Dubois; Julie S. Harris, senior vice president and corporate treasury CFO/Controller, Bank of America; recipient Joanne Robinson; Provost Joan Lorden; and Jeffrey Price, music professor and chairman of the Bank of America Award Committee.) Associate professor Joanne Robinson from the Religious Studies Department in the College of Liberal Arts […]

Jon Marks has won the 2012 prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association. The GAD supports innovative scholarship that transcends boundaries that divide the various fields of anthropology. It awards the Cross-Field Award each year for a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years […]

UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty members Dan Morrill and Kathy Reichs were among the eight ASC Honors recipients on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 in recognition of their impact on Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s cultural community. The Arts & Science Council (ASC) and Charlotte Symphony partnered for ASC Honors during an evening celebration in the […]

A venture capitalist with a solid grounding in the liberal arts and a quarter-century experience in business has joined UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences as its first executive in residence.

(Pictured, left to right: Aliaga-Buchenau, Robinson.) Two faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are among the five finalists for UNC Charlotte’s top teaching award, the 2012 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, associate professor of German and comparative literature, and Joanne Robinson, associate professor of religious studies, join […]

UNC Charlotte is hosting over 200 scholars from around the world at the first International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and the fifth International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics on October 19-21 at UNC Charlotte Center City. Pragmatics, generally speaking, is the investigation of human language and communication. The joint conference is promoting theoretical and applied […]

UNC Charlotte’s Center for the Study of the New South on Oct. 11-13 will host “Without Sanctuary: A Conference on Lynching and the American South,” in conjunction with the Levine Museum of the New South and its exhibit of photographs, postcards and narrative that explores one of the most horrific chapters of history. The “Without […]

Faculty Featured Gregory Weeks, political science & public administration, was quoted in elEconomista on Monday, October 22, 2012, in “La población latina de EEUU, clave para elegir al nuevo presidente.” John Szmer, political science & public administration, was a panelist on on WFAE 90.7’s Charlotte Talks program on Monday, October 22, 2012, on the subject, […]

A nationally recognized author and UNC Charlotte alumna will continue her visit at UNC Charlotte on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 with a public lecture and classroom visits.

Stephanie Powell Watts started her visit on Oct. 3 with a workshop with students. She guided students through a writing exercise, disucssed her writing process and provided tips on writing submissions to journals and other publications.

A memorial is scheduled in honor of Jordan Slusher, a religious studies student in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who died this summer. The memorial will be at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, at Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.