The Middle Ages has had a powerful, long-lasting effect on cultures worldwide. A medieval studies curriculum enables students to discover just how much of our modern world can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The Minor Program in Medieval Studies has been designed as an interdisciplinary minor, to ...
This interdisciplinary minor is for students with diverse interests in the material culture of the ancient world. Course work combines the study of archeology, literature, art, history, philosophy, myth, and religion. The scope of the minor is not limited to Greece and Rome, but touches on all the an...
Joan C. Bristol is the author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos series). Her articles appear in the Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial Histo...
This course will trace almost 1000 years of Jewish history (mid-sixth century BCE - fifth century CE) in order to examine the development of early Judaism and the formation of diverse Jewish communities. In locales as disparate as Egypt, Babylonia and Rome, Jews turned Judaism into a global religion,...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2022 and spring 2023 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2022-23 annual theme, "Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy." Congratulations to our third c...
This is a course about human imagination and experience of the divine world in the later Roman Empire. In a relatively compact chronological moment, between the second century and the fifth, the religious map of Europe and much of the Middle East changed forever. The old cults of the Mediterranean ba...
