Month: March 2014

Windsor Pride in Ontario chose Dr. Javier Pescador’s film “Transbeing” as feature for the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Screening of this film will take place on March 31st. The link for the event is below. http://www.windsorpride.com/component/content/article/163-wpc/news/417-transday-movie

Professor Helen Veit has received as project director a large and prestigious grant from the NEH for “What America Ate: U.S. Foodways of the Great Depression.” The project involves the digitization of primary sources about the history of food in the United States from 1930… Continue Reading Professor Helen Veit receives prestigious grant from NEH

Professor Helen Veit is a finalist for a prestigious James Beard Prize. Beard Awards are the highest honor for food professionals, including academics who study food, working in North America. See especially, http://sf.eater.com/archives/2014/03/18/coqueta_largey_kinch_leong_are_james_beard_finalists.php and http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards.

Professor Edward Murphy was awarded the 2014 Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for teaching in Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities. The Fintz Award recognizes exceptional faculty who, in keeping with the goals of integrative studies, seek to make students familiar with different… Continue Reading Professor Edward Murphy was awarded the 2014 Fintz Award

Dr. Ronen Steinberg is set to speak at a conference on “Trauma and History” at the University of Texas, Austin on March 21st. The title of his talk is  “Trauma before Trauma: Studying the Effects of Mass Violence in the 18th century” Link: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/trauma-and-history/program.php