Category: 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, […]

Pre-med student Sugat Borthakur, a junior in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, was selected for a 2022 Undergraduate Research Scholar Award for a project in history under the supervision of associate professor Monica Rankin. His project examines the impact of propaganda on public health, chiefly the rhetoric used by Harry Anslinger (director of […]

In Fall 2021, the University of Texas at Dallas added two new undergraduate minors to its course offerings as part of its Strategic Plan. Adding the two new minors was also among the recommendations of the UT Dallas Living Our Values Task Force and was supported by the Black student body and the Black Faculty […]

Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Hobson Wildenthal stepped onto The University of Texas at Dallas campus as the chief academic officer for the University. His influence over the next three decades would affect every aspect of the institution — from the sciences to the arts, from business affairs to campus architecture and landscaping, to the […]

With a leadership gift to UT Dallas’ Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, a local doctor and his wife hope to encourage students to focus on the human side of medicine. Dr. Marvin Stone, chief emeritus of hematology and oncology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and a clinical professor in the UT Dallas […]

The story of African Americans in shaping Texas history has not been fully told, according to Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. But she is working toward filling in the gaps of the missing aspects of Texas history lessons through her work as […]

A new book by Dr. Ming Dong Gu, professor of literature and associate director for the UT Dallas Center for Asian Studies, provides a comprehensive investigation of Chinese and Western studies. Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, […]

Students in a public history graduate course at The University of Texas at Dallas are hoping their research will help enhance the narrative of a local house built in the 1840s. According to Dr. Whitney Stewart, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities, the purpose of the spring project was to […]