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Faculty Profile — Sidney Homan
Blue-Collar Scholar English Professor Sidney Homan never imagined his blue-collar childhood in South Philadelphia would lead to his career as a Shakespearean scholar. Until fate – in the form of his mother — intervened and secured him an interview at Princeton, Homan expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. “My father worked hard installing phones […]
Tales Teeth Can Tell
Dental enamel reveals surprising migration patterns in ancient Indus civilizations. University of Florida researchers have discovered that ancient peoples in the Indus Valley did not stay put, as was previously thought. Equally surprising is how they found out: by examining 4,000-year-old teeth. As tooth enamel forms, it incorporates elements from the local environment. When the […]
War Stories
UF is a top contributor to Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. World War II veteran Frank Towers landed on Utah Beach shortly after D-Day, survived the frigid nights of the Battle of the Bulge, and participated in the liberation of thousands of Jews headed to the death camps just before that terrible war ended […]
Mickey and the Turtle
Disney partners with UF to save and protect sea turtles. The world’s seven sea turtle species are classified either as endangered or vulnerable; Walt Disney’s Conservation Fund is partnering with UF to save these creatures. In April, the Disney Conservation Fund announced that UF would be the only university partner in its new initiative, “Reverse […]
Student Profile — Hector Lacera
How one boy’s love of physics started with a cat. Even as a small child, Hector Lacera ’18 wanted to understand the nature of things. He distinctly remembers the first time he felt the inexorable tug of physics. He was seven years old and living in Bogotá, Colombia. One afternoon, while petting the family cat, […]
The Needs of the Many
Health disparities minor reaches out to underrepresented populations. Cathaerina Appadoo ’17 wants a revolution in healthcare. One of many pre-med students in the Health Disparities in Society minor at UF, she’s training to be a leader in “culturally competent” healthcare that’s sensitive to the needs of minority patients. She’s witnessed health providers who are ill-equipped […]
A Bequest for the Best
French professor donates his estate to further the humanities at UF. After 57 years of teaching — 29 of them at UF — William Calin, Graduate Research Professor of French and Francophone Studies, is not planning to give it up anytime soon. He says he doesn’t plan to retire. “I love teaching and researching too […]
Student Profile — Gabriella Larios
Breaking the Color Barrier Gabriella Larios ’17 enjoys putting the pieces together — literally. This aspiring lawyer discovered jigsaw puzzles for stress relief while studying for the LSAT and now regularly assembles 500-piece puzzles when she’s not leading student government or leadership training. A women’s studies and political science double major from an all-girls Catholic […]
Faculty Profile — Thomas S. Bianchi
Delta Blues “Burn and burial,” offers Thomas S. Bianchi, the Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences, as a central theme of his research. He’s referring to carbon cycling, especially the release of carbon into the atmosphere or its sequestration in flora in “blue carbon” areas, such as wetlands and rivers. […]
Humanities and the Sunshine State
High school students enjoy a different kind of summer camp. Water is Florida’s largest resource. UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, in collaboration with UF’s Center for Precollegiate Education and Training, has developed a distinctive weeklong program that teaches high schoolers Florida history and culture through the perspective of water use — […]
Libris | March 2016
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages Will Hasty The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, […]
Two CLAS Scholars to Study at Oxford
Two UF students have received the Frost Scholarship, which funds an intensive master’s-level course for graduating seniors in the State University System of Florida to study at the University of Oxford. The scholarship covers 100 percent of tuition and academic fees and includes a grant for living costs. Out of 10 students selected from the […]
Libris | June 2016
Encyclopedia of the Yoruba Edited by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies […]
Libris | May 2016
Defining Duty in the Civil War Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front J. Matthew Gallman The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war […]
Libris | February 2016
Chica Lit Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century Tace Hedrick This study illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and especially commodification shape the genre of “chica lit,” that is, chick lit written by Latina authors with Latina characters. Chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary […]
Libris – December 2015
Early Medieval Chinese Texts Cynthia L Chennault Languages, Literatures, and Cultures A guide to primary sources that date from China’s early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-three essays, arranged alphabetically by title, discuss authorship, contents, history of editions, traditional commentaries and assessments, modern scholarship, […]
Libris – October 2015
Traveling in French Sylvie Blum-Reid Languages, Literatures, and Cultures This book covers different travel modes and tropes at play in French cinema since 1980 to the present day. It follows the archetypal figure of the traveler and the way these journeys are ‘performed.’ Films travel for us, spectators, and we in turn virtually take off […]
Libris – July 2015
Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power Jeffrey D. Needell Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies. Available from University Press of Florida For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world’s largest economies for the last twenty years. […]
Libris – June 2015
Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (Civil War America) J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor of History. Available from Amazon. The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print […]
Libris – May 2015
Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous Brigitte Weltman-Aron Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Associate Professor in French. Available from Columbia University Press Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise […]