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College of Liberal Arts
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4522
618-453-2466
cola@siu.edu
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Liberal Arts are the foundation of the traditional college education, and so much more. CoLA includes Schools and Programs across the humanities and social sciences that encourage students to explore their passions, embrace new ideas and ways of understanding, and to work collaboratively with one another.
Our graduates find careers in a variety of fields, including: digital media; data analysis; local, state, and federal governments; public relations; law; publishing; archives and museums; international relations; translation; public service; non-profit work; consulting; sales and marketing; and much more! Our degrees prepare students for endless possibilities, and CoLA provides our students with numerous support systems to reach their goals.
Programs
We offer numerous majors, minors, and interdisciplinary programs, with the ability to collaborate across academic fields and across the world.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
OUR SCHOOLS
- School of Africana and Multicultural Studies
- School of Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology
- School of Communication Studies
- School of History and Philosophy
- School of Languages and Linguistics
- School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities
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Faculty Highlights
In collaboration with his former student and SIU PhD Leonidas Vournelis, Dr. David Sutton published a chapter in the volume The Handbook of Food and Material Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023). The chapter explores some of the key symbolic dichotomies of Neoliberalism in Greece, and is titled "When the Numbers Prosper, The People Suffer: Robust Food Cultures, Tacit Knowledge and the Abstractions of Contemporary Neoliberal Culture."
Student Highlights
Abraham Packard (MA Student, Anthropology) recently won First Place among graduate student oral presentations in Anthropology and Archaeology at the Illinois State Academy of Sciences annual meeting in Peoria. His paper was based on his recently defended thesis, titled "Bones, Bugs and Bioerosion: Dermestid Beetle Substrate Preference and their Taphonomic Effect on Bone." His advisor, Gretchen R. Dabbs (Professor, Anthropology) was co-author of the paper.