Welcome

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences was one of the founding Faculties at UWA, and has offered comprehensive coverage of the Arts for almost a century.

In the Schools of Humanities, Music, and Social & Cultural Studies, the Faculty's 135 academic staff provide teaching and research expertise in the following areas:

• Anthropology and Sociology
• Archaeology
• Asian Studies
• Australian Studies
• Classics and Ancient History
• Communication Studies
• English and Cultural Studies
• European Languages and Studies
• Gender Studies
• History
• International and Global Studies
• Linguistics
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Migration and Diversity Studies
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political Science and International Relations
• Social Work and Social Policy

Faculty staff generated $2.4 million in research income in 2007, receiving four prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grants as well as three staff members being involved with collaborative Discovery Project grants at other Universities.

News

The University of Western Australia has been awarded a new national chair of Australian Literature, which will be based at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Congratulations to Daniel Erickson, whose PhD is to be published in March 2009 as a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan as Ghosts, Metaphor, and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Congratulations to winners of Early Career Scholars Publication Grants (May 2008 Round) - Dr Robert Faulkner (Music), Dr Victoria Rogers (Music), Dr Jacqueline Van Gent (Social and Cultural Studies), Dr Susie Protschky (Humanities), Dr Kate O'Shaughnessy (Humanities). Recipients will receive funding to assist with the publication of their monographs.