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UAH presents 2022 University Awards for Excellence to faculty, staff

Apr 26, 2022

On April 21 UAH hosted the annual University Awards for Excellence ceremony to recognize the achievements of the university’s faculty, staff members and researchers. ...


Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival

UAH to host Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival March 30 - April 3, 2022

Mar 29, 2022

The Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival will take place March 30 – April 3 on the campus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville. ...


Dr. Eletra Gilchrist-Petty

Dr. Eletra Gilchrist-Petty receives Black Caucus Rex Crawley Outstanding Service Award from National Communication Association

Mar 23, 2022

Dr. Eletra Gilchrist-Petty, a professor and Department Chair of the Communication Arts Department at UAH, has received the Black Caucus Rex Crawley Outstanding Service Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). ...


UAH Humanities Center Hosts Dr. Ussama Makdisi

UAH Humanities Center Hosts Dr. Ussama Makdisi

Mar 22, 2022

As a part of a digital speakers series visit to UAH, history graduate student Amber Laxson interviewed Dr. Ussama Makdisi (Professor of History and first holder of the Arab American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice Universi...


UAH to host The Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival March 30 – April 3, 2022

UAH to host The Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival March 30 – April 3, 2022

Feb 11, 2022

The Huntsville Human Rights Film Festival will take place March 30 – April 3 on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The Festival is a collaboration of the UAH Humanities Center, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Stu...


Sarah Hakim

Scholarship recipient and political science student Sarah Hakim advocates for policy change during CAHS-funded trip to Washington, D.C.

Feb 10, 2022

Sarah Hakim, a junior working toward her degree in political science and philosophy, likes keeping her options open. ...


An interview with Humanities Center guest Dr. Blake Ball

An interview with Humanities Center guest Dr. Blake Ball

Feb 07, 2022

By: Greta "Gigi" Rhuberg (Secondary Education & History) Dr. Blake Ball says that Peanuts works as a window to the public’s perception of the world. In his research for Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts, Ball came acro...


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CAHS’s Chris Taylor creates sculpture installation for Huntsville Botanical Garden

Jan 20, 2022

Chris Boyd Taylor, an associate professor of sculpture and art at UAH, recently unveiled a sculpture installation at the Huntsville Botanical Garden. ...


Diverse voices in the Humanities

UAH CAHS, Diverse Voices in the Humanities present webinar featuring Dr. Cynthia A. Young

Feb 18, 2021

Dr. Cynthia Ann Young, head of the Department of African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, will be featured when The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, presents a webinar to highl...


Diverse Voices in the Humanities

The History Department and Humanities Center welcome guest lecturer Dr. Colleen Ho, a specialist in medieval history  

Oct 26, 2020

The History Department and Humanities Center are delighted to host a virtual lecture by Dr. Colleen Ho, a specialist in medieval history and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. In “The Unintended Legacy of Medieval...


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