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"4 Months of the Sun" (2014) by Sarah and Joseph Belknap

The Spring Issue of Tableau is Out Now

Wednesday, May 27
tableau alumni faculty research
Learn about alumni making video games, music junior faculty, medical humanities, and more.
Students practice making critical judgments about art during an October 2025 excursion to Theaster Gates’s "Unto Thee" with the Program for Public Thinking.

Creating live texts to think with

By Kelley Tatro Sunday, March 1
philosophy tableau alumni
Editor and philosophy professor Anastasia Berg, AM’13, PhD’17, promotes humanities training as a foundation of engaged public thinking. “I always say...
Images and sounds prompted by the movements of magnified microorganisms from Boston Harbor and the Charles River.

Open spaces

By Kelley Tatro Sunday, March 1
music tableau alumni
Music junior faculty explore the world through music and sound. “Are music and sound just aesthetic forms, or are they actually ways to study sociopo...
UChicago alumna Noor Amin works on "League of Legends," a globally popular online game, as a designer.

Play on

By Susie Allen Sunday, March 1
game design media arts and design tableau alumni
Meet three Arts & Humanities alumni who made games their main quest. For a growing number of UChicago alumni, video games aren’t just a pastime—they’...
UChicago's Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) reconstructs patterns of settlement, exchange, and environmental interaction to better understand how people lived in the past.

Reading the landscape

By Chandler A. Calderon Sunday, March 1
research middle eastern studies tableau alumni
Graduate research assistants use cutting-edge mapping technologies to understand the everyday lives of ancient people. “I think of it as a laboratory...
Guido da Vigevano’s "Anathomia" (ca. 1345) evokes a medieval medical culture that grappled with the question of why illness occurs.

Two perspectives on medicine and the humanities

Sunday, March 1
english language and literature tableau alumni
A literature scholar and a linguist engage with biomedical science. Julie Orlemanski is an associate professor in the Department of English Language ...
Deborah L. Nelson

From the dean

By Deborah L. Nelson Sunday, March 1
office of the dean tableau alumni
The dean discusses arts and scholarship and introduces the division’s new website. Dear Alumni and Friends,I’m excited to share with you the latest a...
The Huntington’s botanical gardens span 130 acres

From visitor to leader

By Susie Allen, AB’09 Monday, September 1
tableau alumni
Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, AM’99, found her calling in museum education.Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, AM’99, fell in love with visiting museums as a college studen...
Front row (from left): Sean Kelsey, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Hans Thomalla. Back row (from left): Amanda Lanzillo, Yoonbin Cho, Soyoon Ryu, Alexander Cowan, and Sarah Edmands Martin.

New faculty fall 2025

By Courtney C. W. Guerra, AB’05 Monday, September 1
faculty tableau alumni
The Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomes 10 new faculty members.The Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomes 10 new faculty members, represent...
Kim Jung Mi’s "Now" (1973) is Ethan Waddell’s favorite early psychedelic album from Korea.

Korea remixed

By Chandler Calderon Friday, August 1
tableau alumni
Ethan Waddell, PhD’24, on how Korean authors use popular music to comment on culture Ethan Waddell, PhD’24, has been playing in rock bands since middl...