In his remarks delivered at his installation as the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies, scholar of race and literary studies Dwight A. McBride spoke on his journey to the academy, the political resonance of Black excellence and Black joy and the tension between theory and practice.
In Patty Heyda’s hands, maps become stories. Heyda, professor of architecture and urban design in the Sam Fox School, received early support for her work on mapping the political and social conditions onto the built environment of Ferguson, Mo., via a grant from The Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative. Years later, the work has culminated in a book, “Radical Atlas of Ferguson, Mo.” In it, she argues that maps and data selected for analysis contextualize even the most seemingly straightforward questions.
A team of papyrologists including classics graduate student William Sieving is working to preserve and publish a trove of documents that shed new light on life in the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Art has become the primary tool for French- and Creole-speaking Louisianans to perpetuate their linguistic tradition and culture, writes Graduate Student Fellow Maurice Tetne.
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