Arts and Humanities
A Pitt pre-med student hosts a medical humanities podcast
You can hear Emma Wolinsky bring conversations on medicine, anatomy and culture to life in “Remains to be Seen.”
Pitt’s new Jazz Studies Director topped recent jazz polls
Downbeat and the Jazz Journalists Association recognized flutist Nicole Mitchell
3 Pitt English affiliates earned Investing in Professional Artists Grants
Cameron Barnett, Adriana Ramirez and Anjali Sachdeva are among the 2019 recipients of the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments program.
Julian Gill-Peterson won a Lambda Literary Award
Their book, “Histories of the Transgender Child,” earned the transgender nonfiction Lammy.
Adam Shear received a grant from the American Academy for Jewish Research
The chair of religious studies will undergo training as part of the Footprints research project and database, which tracks the movement of Jewish books since the inception of print.
Keisha N. Blain won a book prize
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians honor is the second recent award for “Set the World on Fire.”
2 Pitt affiliates were named AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering fellows
Sebastian Alejandro Echeverri and Nikki Forrester are two of 26 selected for the competitive American Association for the Advancement of Science fellowship.
Daniel Balderson received a literary award
The Society for Textual Scholarship honored the Mellon Professor of Modern Languages for his book, “How Borges Wrote.”
Mohammed A. Bamyeh was elected board chair of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences
The Pitt sociology professor will guide the council, which has supported hundreds of researchers in 22 Arab countries.
Michael Kenney will contribute to a report on countering extremism
The GSPIA associate professor has been commissioned by the British government.