‘Forward-looking’ Rice center fuses Latin American and Latinx studies
From hosting speakers on topics ranging from curanderas in Mexican-American literature, the meaning of oil in Venezuela and the archaeology of the Amazon to fostering events on the arts in Guyana and contributing to student events, Rice University’s Initiative for the Study of LatinX America (ISLA) has accomplished a lot in the past three years.
Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson honors Rice faculty, researchers and alumni with proclamations
Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson, whose legislative district includes Rice University, visited campus Feb. 29 to present resolutions from the 88th Texas Legislative session to Rice faculty, researchers and alumni.
New CAAAS director Sherwin Bryant talks Black History Month, vision for center’s future
Sherwin Bryant is approaching his new role as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) with energy, enthusiasm and a vision that he said reflects the capacious and thoughtful energy that went into creating the center.
Friends of Fondren event celebrates Rice authors, artists
Friends of Fondren Library honored Rice University authors, editors, composers and artists of works published in 2023 during its annual celebration event Jan. 17.
Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies
Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History.
Rice's Ruth Simmons and Douglas Brinkley appear at Texas Tribune Festival
Ruth Simmons, the President’s Distinguished Fellow at Rice, and Douglas Brinkley , presidential historian and professor of history in the School of Humanities, participated in the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival, held Sept. 21-23 in Austin.
Rice mourns history professor, author Harold Hyman
Former Rice University history professor, author and award-winning scholar of American legal history Harold Hyman passed away Aug. 6 at age 99.
Faculty bestowed with award recognizing superior teaching
Nine faculty received the 2023 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors top Rice instructors by votes from alumni who graduated within the past two, three and five years.
Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service
Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. Here are recipients of some of this year's awards.
Rice mourns loss of trailblazing history chair, former dean Katherine Fischer Drew
Katherine Fischer Drew ’44 ’45, the esteemed Rice history chair, former acting dean of humanities and social sciences and the first woman ever hired as a tenure-track faculty member by the university, died March 19 at the age of 99.
People, papers and presentations for March 27, 2023
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Archives Foundation, which works to generate financial and creative support for National Archives exhibitions, public programs and educational initiatives.
Rice class decodes the history of human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Petrick, associate professor in Rice University’s Department of History, recently held a workshop class that examined the history of human-computer interaction.
During Black History Month, artists work with historians to tell story of slave trade
Daniel Domingues, associate professor of African history and co-manager of SlaveVoyages, joined forces with Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts Feb. 18 to host a workshop to help create a new visual identity for the award-winning online database of the global slave trade.
Strategic planning process to be launched in January
President Reginald DesRoches shared the news with the Rice community in an email Nov. 21.
Douglas Brinkley nominated for two Grammys
Rice historian Douglas Brinkley is once again a Grammy nominee. Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor of Humanities, will be up for awards in two categories at the Feb. 5 ceremony in Los Angeles.
