Posts Tagged humanities

The acclaimed writer and University of Rochester English professor explores the theme of ‘lost stories.’

Written in the aftermath of a cancer diagnosis, Forever is the University of Rochester English professor’s sixth book of poetry.

Winter in Sokcho is the first title from the University’s literary translation press to be awarded the prize.

Rochester textual scientist Gregory Heyworth led the development of a digitization method for books with fragile binding.

Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.

With masks, social distancing, and other safety measures in place, the University’s museum has reopened and is once again welcoming visitors.

The assistant professor of history is the first recipient of the award, which will support research for his forthcoming book, In the Wake of the Raid: Piracy, Captivity and the 1683 Raid on Veracruz.

You’ll find University of Rochester connections in some of your favorite movies, musicals, and television series, all ready for binge watching.

Rochester professor Gregory Heyworth and his Lazarus Project colleagues have created a 3-D model of one of the treasures of the New York Public Library, the Hunt-Lenox Globe, one of the first globes to show the New World — and to warn “Here be dragons.”

“It’s in our best interest to make sense of the US and Mexico as places that receive and places that send—that goes for both countries,” says associate professor of history Ruben Flores, who will host acclaimed writer Valeria Luiselli in the latest Humanities Center Public Lecture Series.