Posted in Faculty, General Information on Apr 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
Lupton, professor of English & director of the Program in Jewish Studies, in conversation with Humanities staff. 1) Two of your research interests are Shakespeare and design. You’ve written books on each topic separately (Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life and Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things) but in [...]
Posted in Faculty, General Information on Apr 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
History professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes for The Atlantic. Chinese history since the communist revolution has gone a little differently than its ideological father might have anticipated. If China’s Communist Party stays in control for another dozen years, it will best its Soviet counterpart’s record and become the organization linked to Karl Marx’s ideas that has [...]
Posted in Faculty, General Information on Mar 13th, 2012 No Comments »
Student interviewers record the life stories of Vietnamese American immigrants for archival preservation. Emeline Nguyen recently learned some surprising details about her stepmother’s journey to the United States from Vietnam in 1975. The price of her passage across the South China Sea was 2 ounces of gold. Pirates seized the small fishing boat crammed with [...]
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