December 16, 2024
ENGLISH – Professor Susanna Ashton held over 20 talks and public events during the past two months at universities, bookstores, libraries, and historic sites promoting A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (NY: The New Press 2024). This Fall, her title made the Wall Street Journal’s annual holiday gift guide […]
November 6, 2024
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES – Associate Professor Todd Anderson’s printed artwork “Swiftcurrent Glacier, The Last Glacier” and the original woodblock he carved in its making were both recently acquired by the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, Montana, for their permanent collection. “It is an honor to have my artwork placed in context and conversation with historic […]
September 26, 2024
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES – The U.S. Library of Congress (USLOC) recently acquired a hand-carved woodblock created by Associate Professor Todd Anderson. The woodblock, which is approximately 2’x3′ in size, was used to create the print “Grinnell Glacier—The Last Glacier”, which is already a part of the USLOC’s collection. “It is an honor to have this woodblock […]
August 26, 2024
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Professor Rod Andrew Jr. served as the guide for a trip to the D-Day battlefields of Normandy, France, in June. His group met a small group of 82nd Airborne soldiers who happened to be there for the 80th anniversary, and Rod explained the Battle of La Fiere Bridge, a famous battle in […]
June 13, 2024
HISTORY — Humanities Hub director James Burns was an invited presenter at the symposium, “Colorful Threads: Bridging Oceans Through Artistic Narratives of the Indian Ocean Rim,” held at the Africa Institute in the United Arab Emirates in December. His presentation, “Movie-mad Island: Cinema and Public Leisure in Colonial Mauritius, 1897-1968,” featured an ARC-GIS Storymap that […]
June 13, 2024
HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton was interviewed on the Phoenix Riot and quoted in the Greenwood Index-Journal on November 8. He is participating in a documentary being filmed on the race riot. On November 3, Burton keynoted the conference honoring the retirement of Dr. Kenneth Noe, the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. […]
June 13, 2024
ENGLISH – Professor Susanna Ashton authored a review of Tara A. Bynum’s book, Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (University of Illinois Press, 2023). The review was published in the November 2023 edition of History of Education Quarterly. HISTORY – Professor Amit Bein presented a paper on “Turkey, Islam, and the Middle East […]
June 13, 2024
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES – David Blakesley, professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, published two book chapters: “Elaborate Rhetorics” in Writing Spaces 5: Readings for Writers, and “Illuminating Kenneth Burke, Engaging Publics” in In the Classsroom with Kenneth Burke, edited by Ann George and M. Elizabeth Weiser. Parlor Press, 2023, pp. 73–103. ENGLISH – Sarah E.S. Carter, director […]
June 6, 2024
ENGLISH — Professor Susanna Ashton published “Capturing the Civil War” in JSTOR Daily in a collection review on archived stationery during the Civil War from Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection. Her upcoming book, “A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is available for […]
June 6, 2024
HISTORY — Professor of History Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt coauthored “The Voting Rights in Georgia: A Short History” was published in “Southern Cultures.” On March 4, Burton was quoted on the 14th Amendment Colorado ballot initiative Supreme Court decision on NPR Morning Edition SCETV radio. Burton was one of four historians to appear on […]
