The Human Experience
Being • Learning • Becoming
Welcome
A laboratory for research-driven, collaborative, and publicly facing projects built to explore and enhance life in the community and beyond.
The Department of Public & Applied Humanities works to translate the personal enrichment of humanities study into public enrichment and the direct and tangible improvement of the human condition.
Through research-driven, collaborative, and publicly facing projects built to explore and enhance life in the community and beyond, our students and scholars convert understanding into action for the measurable betterment of society.
The department is fundamentally experimental, entrepreneurial, and transdisciplinary, and focuses on public and private opportunities that straddle rather than fall between purviews, or are confined by them.
Meet Madison
Madison wants to make a difference in the world. She is balancing her career plans with a degree in Applied Humanities/Public Health and Law.
Recent News
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Aug. 23, 2025
The Department of Public & Applied Humanities is proud to announce that our very own Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese has been recognized with one of two 2025 Graduate Mentoring & Teaching Awards from the University of Arizona Graduate College…
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May 30, 2025
Six teams selected as awardees of the inaugural University of Arizona Big Idea Challengefunding By Craig Reck, Office of Research and Partnerships
Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, U of A senior vice president for research and partnerships…
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May 13, 2025
Judd Ruggill has received the University of Arizona's Distinguished Head/Director's Award. To learn more, click here.
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Alumni News & Directory
Our majors have gone on to exciting careers around the world in a wide variety of industries.
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2021
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2023
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2025