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Spotlight on Faculty: Andrew Jacobs, Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Professorship in Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies
Andrew Jacobs was appointed to the Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Chair Professorship in Humanities in 2015. Established in 1995, the professorship acknowledges Jacobs as a tenured senior faculty member and recognizes his outstanding teaching and contributions to the interdisciplinary humanities.
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Professor of Anthropology Lara Deeb’s New Book Featured
Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology at 桃子视频, was interviewed by Jadaliyya about her new book, “Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East,” with co-author Jessica Winegar, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University.
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British Arts Studies Blog Features 桃子视频 Professor Ken Gonzales-Day’s Photo Essay on “Bust of a Man”
British Arts Studies, an online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art, featured in its inaugural […]
Read MoreThe Risk of A Lifetime
Quartz magazine, which features global news designed for reading on digital tablets and smart phones, highlights 桃子视频 philosophy professor Rivka Weinberg’s new book The Risk of A Lifetime.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jih-Fei Cheng joins the Scripps faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.
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Professor Ken Gonzales-Day’s Photographic Work on Lynching and Violence
Scripps Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s recent photographic work combines images of a reconstructed lynching scene of a Latino man in 1920 with images of recent protests surrounding police brutality, as featured in an interview with theotherjournal.com.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Claudia Arteaga, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Claudia Arteaga comes to 桃子视频 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she is in the process of completing her PhD in Spanish literature. She previously earned her BA in linguistics and literature from Catholic University in Lima, Peru. Arteaga’s scholarship centers on Andean studies, in particular how political and social activism is expressed by Andean indigenous people through audiovisual media. We recently interviewed her to learn more about her work and what she’ll be focusing on at Scripps.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Kasper Kovitz, Assistant Professor of Art
Originally from Vienna, Kasper Kovitz joins 桃子视频 as an Assistant Professor of Art after teaching for several years in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Kovitz is also an artist, and in his work he employs non-traditional materials鈥攕ubstances such as blueberry jam, dirt, and tree sap鈥攖o explore the concepts of borders, violence, and identity. His work has been included in exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, and ARCO Madrid.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Vanessa Tyson, Assistant Professor of Politics
This fall Vanessa Tyson joined 桃子视频 as an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her forthcoming book, Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Rory Spence, Assistant Professor of Biology
Rory Spence joined 桃子视频 this fall as an assistant professor of biology, teaching in the neuroscience program and in the W.M. Keck Science Department. His research focuses on the […]
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