Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities
Energy humanities is a subdiscipline of the environmental humanities, with a tighter focus on the story of energy in human civilization. It arose in the early 2010s in response to...Read More
Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics
Paul Kelton was working on a book about the cholera pandemic of the 1830s when coronavirus emerged. “It’s been a surreal experience writing about a pandemic while one is going...Read More
Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
The history PhD candidate's dissertation tells the story of how universities historically weighed their desire to be productive spaces for social justice against the nation’s growing impulse toward law and order.
Two Doctoral Candidates Earn Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships
The fellowships support a year of research to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
Virtual Options Keep Staller Center, Zuccaire Gallery Fans Engaged
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing shutdown of large gatherings put a temporary end to the way we traditionally experience performance and visual art. But creative people beget creative...Read More
Kiana Lom ‘21 Writes – and Illustrates – a Novel
Not everything goes according to plan, or so Kiana Lom ‘21 found out. Born in Oceanside, New York, but raised in Costa Rica, Kiana dropped out of school in ninth...Read More