Arts and Humanities
3 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study languages abroad
Michael Sipper and John Danvers will study in Turkey while junior Kate McManus will study in Estonia.
James Coleman won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award
The Giles Constable Award will support his upcoming book on 15th- to 17th-century Italian literature
Pitt alumnus Elwin Cotman won a Whiting Award for his urban fantasy writing
The Dietrich School alum is among 10 emerging American authors who will receive a $50,000 grant to support furthering their literary work.
The Text and ConText Lab’s Columbian hand press was added to a global database
You can make your own prints with the 2,000-pound piece of history on the third floor of Hillman Library.
Angela Hindes is a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh artist-in-residence
The Center for Creativity staffer will create art and build programming at the library’s Allegheny branch.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte won an early career award from the American Sociological Association
The assistant professor of sociology won for his studies on emergent social forms and behaviors.
Explore 1960s Pittsburgh through a new Pitt photography collection
From civil rights figures and influential artists to everyday citizens, Frank Floyd Hightower captured an evolving city and Black community on film.
This alumna is protecting people from cons, one podcast episode at a time
Laci Mosley pokes fun at grifters in “Scam Goddess,” an award-winning podcast and Hulu documentary series.
Gary Jackson blends poetry, comics and Afrofuturism to redefine Black narratives
The Dietrich School professor explores speculative storytelling through his scholarship and craft.
Angie Cruz won 2 recent literary prizes
The associate professor of English received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was named a United States Artists fellow.