Skip to main content

Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

A classroom setting with a teacher standing and speaking. Two students, one focused on papers and the other on a laptop, listen attentively.
Hero Type
Image
Exploring the power of poetry: Walt Hunter's journey through words and history
Walt Hunter Senior Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences Area of Focus: Poetry and how it connects to the world Since he was introduced to the works of William Butler Yeats and Emily Dickinson in early childhood, Walt Hunter has loved poetry—an admiration he's turned into a career....
Photo of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
Hero Type
Image
Canonizing a millennial saint: CWRU experts weigh in on what Carlo Acutis means for today’s church
Shrine to the Blessed Carlo Acutis Yesterday (Sept. 7) at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV officially canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer enthusiast from Italy who died in 2006 and has since become known as the “patron saint of the internet.” To learn more about the significance of A...
Deyhana Greene headshot
Hero Type
Image
Student Spotlight: Deyhana Greene
Interning with intention: Inside CWRU students’ summer internships This summer, Case Western Reserve University students are stepping far beyond the classroom—into hospitals and research labs, startups and advocacy organizations, engineering firms and art studios. What unites their experiences is n...
Laura McNally
Hero Type
Image
Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles
Laura McNally Associate Dean for Experiential Education, School of Law Director, Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic, School of Law Area of Focus: poverty law, disability rights, children’s rights, health law and interdisciplinary education. Laura McNally wants a better way to talk about est...
Elena Cangahuala holding her mortar board
Hero Type
Image
Student Spotlight: Elena Cangahuala
Class Year: May 2026 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus This summer I am... working a job Where are you working? I am working as an office assistant at the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) at their University of Michigan location. NSLC is an academic summer camp for high school students ...
Kwame Alexander, a best-selling author and Emmy-winning producer, read to elementary-school children and Case Western Reserve students participating in the Book Buddies program that CWRU faculty member Cara Byrne leads. The university’s Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities organized this campus event when it brought Alexander to campus for Awe, the Cleveland Humanities Festival held in 2024.
Hero Type
Image
Book Buddies: CWRU students connect with young readers
Editor’s note: Hero photo captured by Nicholas McLaughlin. This article originally appeared in the summer 2025 edition of art/sci. Read more from this issue. Cara Byrne has immersed herself in the world of children’s literature for the past decade, studying how stories shape perceptions of race, ag...
Two tables of students in Mandel Center talking
Hero Type
Image
Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a sub...
Ric Kruszynski headshot
Hero Type
Image
Richard Kruszynski appointed to Ohio’s Chemical Dependency Professionals Board
Richard Kruszynski, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices and the Ohio Substance Use Disorder Center of Excellence, has been appointed to the Chemical Dependency Professionals Board by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The board, a state regulatory agency within Ohio’s Department of Mental Heal...
quill-independence
Hero Type
Image
The founding fathers...and mothers? How women shaped the independence movement
When you picture the American Revolution, you probably see powdered wigs, crowded battlefields and bold declarations of freedom. But what’s often missing from that mental image? The women. From tending to wounded soldiers and hosting political salons to disguising themselves as men to join the figh...
Liliane Windsor headshot
Hero Type
Image
Liliane C. Windsor joins Mandel School as Lillian F. Harris Professor
Liliane C. Windsor joins the Mandel School as the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Social Work on July 1. A leading figure in the quest for health equity, her groundbreaking research is dedicated to elevating marginalized communities—through the application of critical consciousness theory, she has de...