College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Psychology Learning Community students came together on a hot, muggy Friday afternoon to fund raise for the UNC Charlotte Habitat for Humanity house, participating in a university-wide effort to raise $49,000 and build a house for a Habitat family.

The first Center City Literary Festival will pair authors with artists for a community creative event on Saturday, October 12, at UNC Charlotte’s Center City. The festival will offer a carnival-like program for children in the afternoon and a salon-like program for adults in the evening.  The children’s program will take place from noon to […]

Psychology professor Kimberly Buch is the 2013 recipient of the highest teaching honor bestowed by UNC Charlotte, the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.

In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site’s continuous use over millennia. But when an area has also been abandoned for intermittent periods, paradoxically there may be even richer finds uncovered, as […]

Danay Downing, a master’s student in anthropology and a graduate certificate student in cognitive science, used her Love of Learning fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to conduct primate research this summer.

History Department Chair Jürgen Buchenau has just published a new book with Gilbert M. Joseph of Yale University, titled “Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century.”

English faculty member Balaka Basu’s co-edited volume Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers, considers dystopian fiction from literary and political perspectives.

Africana Studies faculty member Debra C. Smith is the co-author of a recently published article on Mediating Culture: Media Literacy and Cultural Awareness.

Steven Rogelberg has been appointed the inaugural University Professor of UNC Charlotte. The title recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement in a professional field as well as demonstrated ability to excel at interdisciplinary research, teaching and service.

Akin Ogundiran has published an essay that offers a new interpretation of the origins of cities and states in the West African rainforest. The paper offers new evidence and interpretation that debunk the “tribal model” of African history.