Faculty & Student Accomplishments

Prof. Brian A. Catlos will be a featured author at the Jaipur Literary Festival taking place from 22–27 January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur, India. In a session sponsored by the Agha Khan Foundation he will be interviewed by best-selling author, William Dalrymple, regarding Catlos’s recent book, Kingdoms of...

Read the CU Boulder Today article about Associate Professor Oliver Gerland's play "Play Therapy," running from Nov. 7-10! Inclusive casting brings all abilities on stage for ‘Play Therapy’ From the article: “I’ve found that creating theater with people whose minds work differently than typical and who come into the room...

Brian Catlos’s Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain to Brian Catlos’s recent book Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic: 2018) has just been published in Spanish as Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la España musulmana by Pasado y Presente, with a...

The 2018 Haskins Medal is awarded to Brian A. Catlos for his monograph, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Committee members: Richard W. Kaeuper (Chair); Jocelyn Wogen Brown; Alastair Minnis. Awarding the coveted Charles Homer Haskins Medal to Brian Catlos for his Muslims of...

Brian Catlos’s recent book Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic: 2018) has just been published in Spanish as Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la España musulmana by Pasado y Presente, with a prologue by leading Spanish historian, Eduardo Manzano. Translations to Polish, German, Korean,...

After graduation, Humanities students have the knowledge and skill to pursue a myriad of careers. Stephanie Strauss graduated from CU in Spring 2011. Since then, she has moved to Chicago, IL and is pursuing a career in professional photography. Currently, Stephanie works as the photographer at Rosalind Franklin University of...

Humanities majors are taking the world by storm! This summer and coming fall, fourteen Humanities students are traveling the globe and enhancing their educations: Copyright by Moyan Brenn Summer 2012 Global Seminar: Art in Spain Nicole Avant Global Seminar: Democracy & Development in Bolivia Alina Odom CIEE France: Paris Language...

Humanities major Jennifer Burnham was awarded first place for undergraduate fiction this year in the Center of the American West’s Thompson Awards for Western American Writing. Each year, thanks to the generosity and kind support of CU alumni Jeannie and Jack Thompson, the Center of the American West awards cash...

Humanities faculty member Brian Catlos (History: UC Santa Cruz/Religious Studies: CU Boulder), has been named as an Associate of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies . Catlos is co-director of The Mediterranean Seminar / UC Multicampus Research Project and co-convenor of the University of Colorado Mediterranean Studies Group...

The Humanities Program’s very own Shirley Carnahan and Giulia Bernardini will star in the Shakespeare Oratorio Society’s staged reading of ‘The Winter’s Tale’! Come see them perform for free: Tuesday, November 1st (6pm, Boulder Public Library Canyon Theatre) or Wednesday, November 2nd (7pm, California Actors Theater at Twin Peaks Mall,...