Arts, Architecture and Humanities

Rana Esfandiary, assistant professor in the University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance, researched the jazz age to create a set for "Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill," opening Oct. 8 at KCRep.

Jeanne Vaccaro, an assistant professor of museum studies and women, gender & sexuality studies, has guest curated an exhibit titled “Scientia Sexualis.” It gathers an ambitious group of contemporary artists whose work confronts, dissolves and reimagines sex and gender within the scientific apparatus.

From fascist "cine clubs" to modern multiplexes, new book co-written and edited by KU assistant professor of Italian tells history of film exhibition in that country.

A new book from a University of Kansas associate professor of music serves as an illustrated introduction to the field of music therapy for beginners, covering definitions, methods and theories.

KU researchers received an NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant to fund their project, AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice, an in-person institute administered in partnership with the National Humanities Center, in June 2025.