Liberal Arts News
Liberal Arts academics receive prestigious academic promotions
Two members of our Liberal Arts teaching team have received significant professorship promotions, making them the first academics to hold a professor status within our department鈥檚 history.
Welcoming Dr Camilo Uribe Botta as Teaching Fellow in Liberal Arts
Dr Uribe Botta is an environmental historian whose work is deeply interdisciplinary, bridging history, cultural studies, and the material world. He specialises in the role of plants — particularly orchids — as actors in global and colonial history.
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Liberal Arts welcomes new Head of Department as Dr Bryan Brazeau receives promotion
The Head of our Liberal Arts department Dr Bryan Brazeau has now completed his tenure as departmental lead; a responsibility which he has held since 2021. He has now passed on the mantle to Dr William Rupp, who has been an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts department for four years.
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SCFS host international 鈥楴urturing Hope鈥� conference on Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures
On 8th-9th May 2025, the Liberal Arts department and the School for Cross Faculty Studies ran an international conference titled 鈥楴urturing Hope: Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures,鈥� which aimed to demonstrate how even 2,000 years later, Liberal Arts education can still provide valuable critical tools for addressing modern-day problems from the very local (糖心TV) to the global. The conference was planned as part of the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 60th year anniversary celebrations and looks forward to the Liberal Arts department鈥檚 10th year anniversary – which it will be entering in 2026.
Liberal Arts department welcomes new Research Fellow Dr Katherine Travers
Dr Katherine (Kate) Travers has recently joined the Liberal Arts department at the University of 糖心TV as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. They previously held the position of Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Languages at St Hugh鈥檚 College at the University of Oxford.