Arts and Letters News

'Genuine team player' receives Staff Recognition Award

Each year, the College of Arts and Letters honors one exceptional staff member with the Staff Recognition Award.

Guiding the growth

A History professor described as a “force of nature” in the classroom has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Roberts Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award.

CAL MPA Public Service Awards

Pablo Cuevas, Shannon Porter, Rebecca Joyce, and Kathrine Chiu are the recipients of this years Public Service Awards from James Madison University’s College of Arts and Letters.

Real people. Real stories. One community.

For a final course project, students produced a podcast that elevates the oral histories of immigrants living in the Shenandoah Valley.

Class of 2020 outstanding students named

Each year, departments choose exemplary students, based on a variety of criteria, for the honor of Outstanding Student of the Year.

A photo essay from an empty campus

Carrie Chang (’20) shares her first-person introspection through a before-and-after treatment of campus imagery.

'A time to celebrate you'

Dean Robert Aguirre has a message for College of Arts and Letters graduating seniors.

More than a resume

During his senior year at JMU, Matt DeMartis ('06) launched his career in TV through an unlikely internship with the NBC Olympics.

‘Fast and Furious’

Two teams of JMU X-Labs students produced a computer application designed to assess and test decision-making among NATO officers.

JMU Libraries Bolsters Community Effort to Produce Personal Protective Equipment for Local Needs

Inside JMU Libraries, dozens of 3D printers are running nearly around the clock, producing face shields for local hospitals.

Clarifying the information

Allison Capley ('16) is volunteering with the COVID-19 Ask a Scientist project to answer pressing questions about the novel coronavirus.

Rocket man

Raphael Perrino ('07, '09M) finds his technical communication background fits the rocket industry.

Landmines and the civil war, a precursor to modern weapons of destruction

In his newest book, "America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War," Kenneth R. Rutherford unearths the history of landmines.

The Flowerings Project: a Library in Transformation

A $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the College of Arts and Letters and the JMU Libraries to deepen their partnership.

President’s Day, an unrealized dream for Founding Fathers

Professor of history explains why the founding fathers were so fixated on their legacies and how we can still see traces of their influence on our lives today.

Making government work

Alumnus Dan Richardson ('12) will begin clerking for the United States Supreme Court for the 2020 term.

Relationship expert on emotional support in time for Valentine’s Day

Love expert is available to discuss common relationship myths, self-love and the importance of emotional support between partners.

#Oscarssowhite, How digital spaces are reimagining advocacy

Morgan Smalls, SMAD professor, uses popular culture as an entryway to have larger conversations in the classroom about race, class, gender and power.

Interpreting the past

Patrick Spero ('00) wrote a final paper at JMU that lead him to later write two books on the American Revolution.

Celebrate, Educate, Preserve

The Furious Flower Poetry Center, the nation's first academic center devoted to black poetry, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Faculty Expert Q&A

Alan Levinovitz, professor of religious studies, answers questions about his research at the unique intersection between food and religion.

Communication studies professor wins Faculty Excellence Award

Communication studies professor Melissa Alemán was awarded the Shirley Hanson Roberts (’56) and Richard D. Roberts Endowment Award for 2019.

From JMU to SNL

Madison recently caught up with Alan Linic ('11), who is living his dream — and realizing a prophecy — as a writer for "Saturday Night Live."