Category: Alumni

Congratulations to the 2021 spring graduates from the School of Arts and Humanities! Among the University of Texas at Dallas graduating class there are 47 who are earning bachelor’s degrees, 11 who are earning master’s degrees and 12 who are earning doctoral degrees. Dr. Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, […]

We are so proud of our graduates this semester — and year! The University of Texas at Dallas has produced a hub for finding all things related to Spring 2021 graduation. We decided it would be nice to put the spotlight on several of our students who were featured by the University as a whole. […]

Spring marks a particularly unusual milestone for University of Texas at Dallas students: This season’s graduates will be the second group of May graduates since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although the pandemic affected nearly every aspect of life, including the university experience, UT Dallas students have persevered and embraced opportunities to create and achieve academic success. […]

UT Dallas alumna, Dr. LaToya Watkins BA’06, MA’11, PhD’15, has received a two-book deal from New York publisher Viking-Penguin. The first book, a novel called Perish, will be published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint at Plume/Dutton, subsidiary of Viking-Penguin, and will be on the market in the Fall of 2022; Holler, Child will follow in […]

A graduate from the School of Arts and Humanities recently was highlighted at the Nasher Prize Dialogues Graduate Symposium, sponsored by the Nasher Sculpture Center. Austin Bailey MA’20 spoke about multi-media artist Michael Rakowitz, who won the 2020 Nasher Prize. Bailey became fascinated with the work of Rakowitz as he interned at the Nasher, subsequently […]

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in humanities from Bucknell University, Stacey Knepp MA’09 knew she wasn’t done with the work she had started as an undergraduate. “I had taken numerous years of ancient Greek, translating Greek text,” Knepp said. “UTD was one of a few universities in the country offering a graduate-level program in translation […]

The School of Arts and Humanities is pleased to honor its December 2020 graduates. This semester there are 40 undergraduate students and 10 graduate students earning degrees. The school is creating a Facebook page to recognize these students and their accomplishments. On Friday, Dec 11, at 4 pm, there will be a virtual celebration/end of […]

A new series of exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, called Nasher Windows, features several artists who are related to UT Dallas. The installations are viewable through the windows from the outside of the Renzo Piano-designed museum and provide exhibition space for North Texas-based artists, while offering the public an accessible way to view art. […]

Ciara Elle Bryant Since earning her Bachelor’s degree in Art and Performance from UT Dallas in 2016, visual artist Ciara Elle Bryant has exhibited widely in the Dallas area, including a solo installation, Server, in Echo Stop, at Ex Ovo and Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, and in a solo exhibition, Invisible, at the South Dallas Cultural […]

Mathew Shadegg Matthew Shadegg BA’20, recently conducted a survey (using quantitative social science method) to inquire how students use social media, particularly the underlying reasoning behind their individual usage of various social-media platforms. He applied for and obtained IRB approval (which took a few tries) and launched his survey to gather data via Qualtrics. He […]