Department Archives: College of Arts and Humanities

With the election approaching, history professor Robert Cassanello chats with Pegasus Magazine about voter suppression.

100 years after the 1920 Ocoee massacre, history professor Robert Cassanello discusses the lessons and healing in the Central Florida community for Pegasus Magazine.

The installation, created by artist Nancy Gutkin O’Neil, was produced in partnership with Parramore residents and business owners and is part of the Art in State initiative at UCF.

Don Harrell, adjunct professor of Africana Studies, shares why his past and present make him proud of his heritage.

Philosophy’s Ann Gleig writes “While white people are not to blame for policies that began before they were born, they are still benefiting from them at the — often grave — expense of Black Americans.”

As of Fall 2020, students have the option to add the new Interfaith Dialogue Certificate, a four-course program that helps students understand the world interculturally.

As part of an ongoing look at issues surrounding equity for people of color within Orlando’s arts scene, the Orlando Sentinel featured the UCF Art Gallery an its current exhibition.

Anna Eskamani ’12 ’15MNM ’15MPA won the Distinguished Alumni Award and Margery Pabst-Steinmetz won the John C. and Martha Hitt Honorary Alumni Award.

Two of the three honorees are from CAH: Cheryl Briggs of the School of Visual Arts and Design, and Laurie A. Pinkert of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric.

Inspired by the arts and multimedia, five Knights discuss their cultural pride and the importance of representation.