Category: History

UT Dallas professors look back on the work of recently departed Dallas historian Dr. George E. Keaton Jr.’s, whose lifelong mission of exalting and guarding local Black stories often crossed paths with School of Arts, Humanities and Technology faculty. Keaton, the founder and executive director of Remembering Black Dallas, Inc. (RBD), was best known for […]

Works by Colette Copeland, an Arts and Humanities lecturer, are being featured at two locations in Texas. Copeland’s collection of solar plate etchings and chine collé prints – related to the American outlaw Jesse James — are on display at the Jody Klotz Fine Art in Abilene, Texas through August 31 and her My Jesse James Adventure project, which […]

Patricia Mathu BA’22, a recent history graduate from the School of Arts and Humanities, has been selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The highly competitive national program provides a stipend and tuition support for students pursuing graduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “My time at UT Dallas has […]

For 35 years the Holocaust Studies Program at UT Dallas has been a beacon of scholarship and enlightenment regarding one of the most traumatic events in human history. From 1933 to 1945, Jewish citizens and others who lived in countries throughout Europe were rounded up and killed in Nazi concentration camps. Among the 6 million […]

Patricia Mathu was one of seven University of Texas at Dallas students and alumni selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The highly competitive national program provides a stipend and tuition support for students pursuing graduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Mathu was born and raised in suburban […]

Seven history students have been inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society. The society’s mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students and faculty together both intellectually and socially for […]

Recent UT Dallas graduate Elizabeth “Tess” Helfrich BA’21 BS’21 recently had her undergraduate capstone/thesis published in the Yale Historical Review. The paper, “A House is Not a Home: Examining the Definition of Home for Nineteenth-Century Enslaved Americans,” appears in the Fall 2021 issue of the Review. Helfrich, who earned bachelor’s degrees in biology and history […]

To celebrate the Class of 2022, we asked some of our graduating Comets to share their plans for the future or a fond memory of attending A&H at UTD. Here’s what they had to say… Visit our full coverage of all Spring 2022 A&H ceremonies. Hayden Lopez BA, Visual and Performing Arts – Theatre Plans […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies recently hosted the event “Echoes of Atrocity in Ukraine.” The event, meant to recognize the recent invasion of Ukraine as well as pay tribute to those lost in this region both in the past and present, featured presentations by the Ackerman faculty as well as musical performances by students […]

Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, assistant professor of history, recently launched her book, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification.  Fischer’s book explores “how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion of police power.”  She recently held a launch event that featured a discussion with Treva B. Lindsey, associate professor of women’s, […]