John McPhee tells us that when his youngest daughter, Martha, was seventeen, her English teacher wrote forty-seven words on the blackboard and asked members of the class to write a composition using ...

Our team consists of faculty researchers from UT Austin, led by Uvalde native and historian Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez. We specialize in the fields of history, social work, and sociology. Our expertise ...

Mr. E. L. Keene, a 1942 graduate of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, envisioned a prize that would honor and support the pursuit of great American writing, and through ...

The New Directions conference was born at the University of Texas (UT) in 2008. It was created with the intention to present graduate students with opportunities to build relationships and exchange ...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies hosts a weekly language table for each of our four main languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish). These tables provide an opportunity for students to ...

You should acknowledge both CAPS and the PRC if your affiliation contributed to the work in any way, by providing office or meeting space, intellectual community, administrative or computer support, ...

The Health and Relationships Project (HARP) studies how married partners influence each other’s health behaviors, mental health, and physical health over time. Beginning in 2015, we collected survey ...

The University of Texas at Austin offers an exceptionally wide range of resources for graduate study in many fields of history. With more than 60 faculty members, outstanding library and archival ...

Liminality is an anthropological concept that denotes borders, thresholds and transitions. Previously used to describe the middle stage of rites of passage marked by transformation and the uncertainty ...

Advanced undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program at UT Austin can apply to pursue the Creative Writing Certificate. At the graduate level, MFA degrees in creative writing are offered ...

The Black Studies Collective at The University of Texas at Austin is a collective endeavor like no other Black studies initiative in the country. The Collective draws its strength from four distinct ...

Each year the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program, funded through US Department of Education Title VI grants provided to College of Liberal Arts area studies centers, provides ...