News from the College Of Liberal Arts

Oxford Mural on The Square. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

College of Liberal Arts students Sophia Fosdick, left, Cayla Hari and Weston Liefer chat at the Phi Mu fountain in the Quad. Photo by Kevin Bain/University Communications Photography.

Images around the Oxford Square and Oxford for admissions post card. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

Campus Scenes; Ventress Hall framed by flower blooms in the Circle. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

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Tessa Cascio (left), a senior anthropology major from Gautier, and Wes Newton, a senior anthropology major from Guntown, inspect a possible artifact found at Rowan Oak as a part of their class’s public archaeology dig. The project is part of an effort to uncover the lives of enslaved peoples who lived and worked at the townhome in the antebellum period. Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

Rowan Oak Welcomes Guests for ‘Before Faulkner’ Public Archaeology Day

October 10, 2023

Students aid in digging up antebellum history of Faulkner’s historic homestead OCTOBER 9, 2023 BY CLARA TURNAGE The University of Mississippi Department of Sociology and Anthropology is...

R.L. Boyce, a Grammy-nominated blues musician, performs at the 2022 Oxford Blues Festival. The festival will return Oct. 12-14 with a lineup of 14 artists and musicians from across the country as well as panel discussions on the history of the genre and its musicians at the J.D. Williams Library’s Blues Archive. Submitted photo

Local, National Talent to Sing the Blues at Annual Festival

October 6, 2023

Panel at UM Blues Archive to highlight history, importance of music to the South OCTOBER 5, 2023 BY CLARA TURNAGE The 12th annual Oxford Blues Festival will kick off three days of blues music with a...

Princeton Professor is Inaugural Speaker in Meredith Lecture Series

September 28, 2023

Ruha Benjamin to deliver keynote Oct. 2 at The Inn at Ole Miss ballroom SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 BY EDWIN B. SMITH Ruha Benjamin, a renowned Princeton University professor and author, is the inaugural...

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Award

Fulbright-Hays Award to Fund Study Abroad Project in Bolivia

September 21, 2023

Kate Centellas and 10 students to investigate health care disparities in Latin America SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 BY CLARA TURNAGE Ten University of Mississippi students will travel to Bolivia next summer to...

UM Theatre’s Opening Play Challenges Actors with Poetry and Comedy

September 21, 2023

‘The Liar’ generates laughs with playful tale of compulsive liars, name mix-ups and baffling romance SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 BY WHITNEY RIGDON The University of Mississippi Department of...