College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Nigerian master woodcarver, structure designer, folklorist and environmental activist Kasali Akangbe Ogun is serving as the 2013 Africana Artist-in-Residence at UNC Charlotte.

It will be “hats off” to Dr. Seuss at the Seuss-a-Thon event co-sponsored by UNC Charlotte’s English Department and Park Road Books at the bookstore on Saturday, March 2 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Faculty Featured: Sean McCloud, religious studies, wrote a column that was published on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 in Huffington Post Religion titled “Nones, Somes and the Combinativeness of American Religion.” Eric Heberlig, political science & public administration, was quoted on Friday, February 15, 2013 on WRAL.com in “What you might hear in the state of […]

Faculty Featured: Martin Klotz, biology, was featured on Monday, January 28, 2013 in the America Now television segment “Who has the most germs at work?” Justin Conrad, political science & public administration, was quoted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 in The Charlotte Observer Lake Norman News in “Foreign policy lectures held at UNCC.” Eddy Souffrant, […]

The New Books Network is featuring a podcast with Richard W. Leeman, communication studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and his co-editor, Bernard Duffy, about their book The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches.

Communication studies faculty members Daniel Grano and Margaret Quinlan and graduate student Elliot Hamer presented “Did Race and Money Matter? Discrimination in the N.C. Eugenics Program”

Faculty Featured: Peter Thorsheim, history, was quoted on Friday, December 28, 2012 in International Herald Tribune, the Global Edition of The New York Times, on “The Great Smog of China.” James Tabor, religious studies, was quoted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 in NBC News’ COSMIC LOG on “The year’s ancient mysteries (and missteps) put into […]

Faculty Featured James Tabor, religious studies, published “Christianity Before Paul” on Thursday, November 29, 2012, in Huffington Post. “America Aflame,” a book by David Goldfield, history, was among “Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Picks for the Omnivorous Reader” on NPR books on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Jonathan Marks, anthropology, wrote “My ancestors, myself” in Aeon, a digital […]

Faculty in UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences published over two dozen books in 2012, contributing to the university’s research and the telling of stories that help make sense of the world.

Knowledge lives in research. As scholars pursue answers to big questions and researchers push the boundaries of what we already know, knowledge shifts, grows, and expands. The vitality of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is linked to the vitality of its faculty’s research. In fiscal year 2012, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences […]