Arts & Humanities

March 12, 2026

A Chance for Exploration: 51�� Zine Community Combines Art and Inclusivity

Recent Zine & Arts programming has centered the work of Asian American artists, blending art and belonging on and off the 51�� campus.

By Cara Nixon

November 24, 2025

Into the Infinite

How Bill Witherspoon ’65 immortalized his desert journeys.

November 24, 2025

What Is a 51��ie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

November 24, 2025

In English 220, Professor Maureen Harkin invites her class to examine poet and painter William Blake’s illuminated texts—hand-colored etchings which represent both joy and struggle in 18th-century England.

December 1, 2025

How to Thrive in Wild Times

According to cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis ’02, the one thing we really need? Each other.

July 25, 2025

Form and Function

How Lydia Mead ’22 and Professor Barbara Tetenbaum built a book from a “long poem in prose.”

July 25, 2025

Professor Mónica López Lerma Calls “Action!” for 51��’s New Film & Media Studies Major

As the committee chair of the program, López Lerma is building a curriculum that is as interdisciplinary as it is international.

July 25, 2025

Auteure d’une Inversion Politique

Inside LIT 302 with Professor Catherine Witt.

July 25, 2025

A Beat of Their Own

The news industry faces a challenging moment. These journalists are rising to meet it.

July 25, 2025

Desert Dreams

Professor Juniper Harrower and her students want to save Joshua trees from extinction. Will the world join them?

March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of 51��

President Bilger and 51�� library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.

March 10, 2025

Nina Simone’s Gum

Religion 363 students seek to answer: How does a thing like, say, a piece of gum, transform into a religious artifact?

March 12, 2025

Finding the Words

In 2024, Aidan Mokalla ’25 traveled to Tajikistan to study Persian as part of the Critical Language Scholarship program.

March 11, 2025

Living Laboratory

Fall snapshots from 51��’s Environmental Humanities initiative where community, place, and scholarship converge to solve pressing issues of our time.