Department Publications
The Rule of Saint Benedict
A new scholarly edition of one of the most influential texts of the Middle Ages, with a fresh translation that reproduces Benedict's informal and sometimes conversational style
Raceball
How the major leagues colonized the Black and Latino game.
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August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays
Authors Laurence Glasco of the History Department and Chris Rawson of the English Department have teamed up to write a guide to historic sites and places that figure in the life and plays of August Wilson.
Lectures and Symposia
Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art, the art exhibit co-curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, will be on display at the Rudenstine Gallery, Du Bois Institute, from January 25 to May 30, 2012. This exhibition was previously on view at the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Havana, April 16-May 31, 2010 and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, October 15, 2010-February 27, 2011 and The 8th Floor Gallery, New York City, April 12-July 21.
Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art was made possible by generous support from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, Inc., Ford Foundation, Lambent Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the University of Pittsburgh’s CRDF, CLAS, UCIS, Humanities Center, World History Center and the Dean of Arts and Sciences.