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Dr. Peter Ecke has received a $15,000 Award for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research and revise an undergraduate course on multilingualism! GER 150A1, "Becoming Multilingual: Learning and Maintaining Two or More…

In case you missed it: Last fall, the German program at University High School was named a German Center of Excellence by the American Association of Teachers of German, a designation that has previously also been awarded to the University of…

We are delighted to announce that Drs. Joela Jacobs (University of Arizona), Leonard Herrmann (Universität Leipzig), and James Orao (University of Nairobi) have been awarded a three-year $200,000 grant from the GIP (The German Language, Literature…

Dr. Classen's new article “Exploration of the Self in a Religious-Ethical Context from Late Antiquity through the Early Renaissance: St. Augustine, Boethius, and Petrarch. Past Ideas for Our Future” has appeared in Athens Journal of Humanities…

Please join us in congratulating Alina Antonov on the successful completion of her Comprehensive Exam! She is part of our dual degree PhD program in Transcultural German Studies with the Universität Leipzig. Well done, Alina!

We would like to congratulate Dr. Thomas Fuhr on a successful first semester as Language Program Director and lecturer in the German Studies department! Thank you for all of your hard work. Dr. Fuhr also published a new article as part of a forum on…

We are happy to announce that Prof. Albrecht Classen is the joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia book prize for 2023: Literatures written in languages other than English for his book Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World (…

We are very happy to announce that David Asad has been awarded the Stephen D. Todd Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholarship by the College of Humanities 🎉 David is this award’s inaugural winner! He is an Honors student pursuing a dual degree in…

Please join us in congratulating Christina Becher, who successfully defended her dissertation (summa cum laude)! She is the first to graduate from our dual degree PhD program in cooperation with the Universität zu Köln in Germany. Herzlichen…

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