Department Archives: College of Arts and Humanities

Led by History alumni Phil Zoshak, Hero Spark is an after-school program that uses role-playing games to help teenagers improve their self-esteem and hone their social skills.

Five staff members from the College of Arts and Humanities have been nominated for the university’s A&P Gabor Award: Gary Brown, Mariana Chao, Trisha Farmer, Patty Hurter, and Mannong Pang.

From feminism to Hispanic identity, the diverse research of two CAH alumnae shines in The Pegasus Review.

SVAD faculty, Cheryl Briggs and Keri Watson, part of two teams that recently won the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards.

From space research to the arts and humanities, faculty members across all disciplines were recognized for being academic leaders in their fields and conducting work that has a significant impact on the world.

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of History, is the director of the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project, an archaeological survey and excavation project exploring the historical and archaeological remains of the Vayots Dzor providence in southern Armenia.

Alex Burtzos, a composer and conductor, has made a career of making music that has been called “incomparable to anything existing.” Now he is an assistant professor of composition at the UCF School of Performing Arts.

History student Jacqueline Love has been published in the Orlando Sentinel for her opinion piece, “Disney kin more deserving of Lake museum than Confederate general.”

What’s been going on at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy? Three alumni and two students show how they are changing the world.

Dr. Stephen M. Fiore, a UCF Cognitive Sciences professor with the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at the Institute of Simulation & Training, was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to join a team of 30 scientists and engineers tasked with this role.