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In 2023, 11 faculty were granted tenure in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Isaiah Andrews PhD ’14 is a professor in the Department of Economics. He is an econometrician who develops reliable and broadly applicable methods of statistical inference to address key challenges in economics, social science, and medicine. He is […]
More Than An Eagle on the Button: Black Lives Beyond the Battlefield in the U.S. Civil War / Glasscock Center for Humanities Research / Texas A&M University Events Calendar Skip to the main content Source link
Cotton spun in Manchester’s textile mills was originally grown by enslaved people.Credit: SocialHistoryImages/Alamy Decolonizing science Nature’s careers section launched a series of articles in November 2022 looking at how institutions and disciplines in the natural sciences are seeking to make curricula and outreach activities more representative of the communities they serve. In this interview with […]
Projects to build a research center at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, to develop digital tours of an exhibition highlighting Jewish founders of the film industry at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and to add touch-screen kiosks to the National Comedy Center in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., are among 204 […]
Liz Ševčenko remembers growing up as a child of historians in Cambridge, Ma., with parents who were steeped in knowledge but remained silent about much of their own past, including her father, who rarely discussed his childhood in Warsaw during WWII. She noticed a similar dynamic among white liberals in her town: They deplored Southern racism but kept quiet about […]
Two Humanities and Social Sciences professors will work on individual research projects during yearlong fellowships at the National Humanities Center. The center named professors Blair Kelley and Jason Miller two of 33 scholars who will serve as resident fellows during the 2022-23 academic year. During their stay, Kelley and Miller will each work on their […]
Internationally renowned Black history, literature and digital humanities scholar Gabrielle Foreman will participate in a series of Northwestern University campus events May 2 to 6. Foreman is professor of English, African American studies and history at Penn State University, where she holds the Joseph Paterno Family Chair in Liberal Arts. She is the founding director […]
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