CCS is pleased to announce our brand new Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Interpretation and Programming (ACIP). This degree will prepare students for a profession in arts, cultural heritage, and environmental institutions and destinations! Applications will be accepted starting Spring 2027 for a Fall 2027 startdate. See here for more details or contact Zsuzsanna.Gulacsi@nau.edu
CCS is celebrating the 15 Comparative Cultural Studies students who presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 25! Below are photos of all our fantastic students with their posters or oral presentations as they present their original research.
Come visit all the fantastic CCS students at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium! The event is on Friday, April 25th at the High Country Conference Center. This year we have 14 students presenting in poster sessions and 1 student in the oral presentations!! The full schedule of presentations and their locations are below. Don’t miss the chance to learn about the amazing research of CCS undergrads at the Symposium this year!
The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund supports Public Humanities programming that advances the professional development of students and is community focused. Thanks to a generous grant from past NAU president Dr. Clara Lovett (1993-2001), the department of Comparative Cultural Studies will award two annual grants to teams of NAU faculty and students engaged in community-based public humanities projects. Two grants for up to $2000 each will be awarded each year. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, April… Read more
Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick, the Latin American Studies Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Humanities, was recently invited as a keynote speaker for the Napoleonic Historical Society conference this year, which was held in Mexico City at the Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico. The event began at the Mexico City campus of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (the Mexican version of MIT), where speakers were welcomed by masked students (pictured below). 
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As part of the week-long Dia de los Muertos celebrations at NAU this year, CCS Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr. Anabel Galindo and Future Faculty Fellow of Human Rights Dr. Pedro Gonzalez Corona held flower-making workshops at the Cline Library. In an interview with The Lumberjack, Dr. Galindo said, “It’s part of learning and building community within NAU…. Some students don’t know each other when they come in, but now they’re talking with each other and getting to know… Read more
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