Beyond an individualistic impact, the defunding and abandonment of the humanities damages society as a whole. It declines into our current panorama: a new wave of conservatism that ends...
I never bothered to take AP calculus in high school. By junior year, I had firmly decided that I would not go beyond the threshold of required math classes....
In a wonderful night spent at the Arlington Theatre listening to a reading by author David Sedaris, I've been reminded the importance of keeping humanities human centered.
Can a university survive without the arts and humanities?
How the unlikely scientist, Jane Goodall, taught me the value and importance of understanding non-human culture.
Every other week seems to bring another news headline that whispers of our future dream jobs being doomed to digitization, or worse, oblivion. In an age where algorithms can...
This summer I came back to America Ferrera's speech from the "Barbie" movie for an assignment inspired by the Guerrilla Girls. I have written about this speech numerous of...
At the charming Eastern Divide Brewery, the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech recently hosted a “Books at the Brewery” event, celebrating published books from within the last year...
Participating in a fly-in to D.C. with the Humanities Edge program at FIU had been on my wish list since I first learned about it a year ago—and it...