Boozhoo Anishnabwe (Hello friends and family). Welcome back, Transform! I am thrilled to learn alongside you this upcoming year. And what a year we have ahead of us. A presidential election, ongoing global conflicts, and many other challenges will be top of mind for many of us. But, we have much to look forward to […]
Read MoreAfter seven years as a program, Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Utah has new stature as an interdisciplinary research center. The University of Utah’s Board of Trustees gave final approval to the Center for Pasifika Indigenous Knowledges during its meeting on Tuesday. The Academic Senate signed off on the center in February. “We […]
Read More“Students are my favorite part of the work I do. No matter what course I teach, whether it’s gender studies or theatre or my honors course, I know the students are going to bring amazing ideas into the classroom. I don’t think people give undergraduate students enough credit for their thirst for knowledge.”
Read More“I joined the U last July and was drawn to the interdisciplinary approach of the U’s Disability Studies program, where I am furthering my research on disability in Arab communities in the United States. Right now, I am focused on reworking and publishing my dissertation, which discusses culture and physical barriers within Arab American communities. […]
Read More“Learning about these concepts really changed my perspective, not only as a burgeoning intellectual on my way to divinity school but also as a human. It made me feel like I was represented in a religious tradition that I’d always been part of. I had never understood that there were other people who looked like […]
Read MoreBaodong Liu is a nationally recognized expert on race, voting rights and U.S. elections. He provided key expert witness testimony in court hearings on the state of Alabama’s redistricting map, testimony that made its way into a subsequent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found the map unconstitutional.
Read MoreWilliam A. Smith will receive the 2023 Albert B. Fritz Civil Rights Worker of the Year Award on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, from the NAACP Salt Lake Branch Life Membership and Freedom Fund.
Read MoreIntersectional inquiry cuts across disciplines and modalities – from the social sciences, scientific, humanistic and the arts. Join us for a panel discussion to learn about how intersectionality as methodology is seminal to fields of research, where difference, power dynamics and interlocking identities are part of who we are as humans.
Read MoreFaculty, research administrators and students from across campus are invited to attend a 2-hour, in-person town hall on November 16.
Read MoreProfessor Armando Solórzano collected the speeches made by city officials, religious leaders and community members at the march and created an archive of interviews, newspaper clippings and analysis surrounding the event.
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