People and Institutions

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (363+ words) Shelley K. White, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor of the Practice and the Director of Experiential Learning within the Global Public Health and Common Good Program at the Connell School of Nursing, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology....

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (180+ words) It’s the faculty and staff within the College of Humanities & Fine Arts who keep everything going. From leading in the classroom to ensuring students access what they need, they do it all. Here, you’ll find resources for these essential members…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (154+ words) MIT welcomes Ian Ball, Sam Berstler, Wiebke Denecke, Mariya Grinberg, Christian Wolf, and Sulafa Zidani as new faculty to MIT SHASS. Centers, Labs, & Programs - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes six new faculty Previous image Next image…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (89+ words) A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word. By Adrienne D. Davis The recent “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic…...

2+ week, 2+ min ago   (152+ words) Wendy Parker has been named chair of the Virginia Tech Department of Philosophy. Parker joined the department as a professor in August 2020. Her research focuses on the philosophy of science, with an emphasis on climate science and meteorology. She is…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (386+ words) We’d drone in unison. This was how we announced our readiness at the teacher’s command from the front of the classroom. Thirty years ago, I thought this was how all young minds engaged in education. The teachers checked our bodies…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (455+ words) You might think this statement is too banal to open an op-ed. But thanks in part to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin’s Report, it’s a very political claim these days. Over the summer — a time when my colleagues and I tend to…...