Clare Croft, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre & Drama, University of Michigan Peggy McCracken, Domna C. Stanton Collegiate Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the … Read more
Brandi Hughes, Assistant Professor of American Culture and History Mike McGovern, Associate Professor of Anthropology In A Nervous State (Duke University Press, 2016), Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood … Read more
Nadine Hubbs (Women’s Studies, Music, American Culture) Charles Garrett (Musicology) Karyn Lacy (African and Afro-American Studies, Sociology) Gayle Rubin (Anthropology, Women’s Studies) Nadine Hubbs’s Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) has been called “one of the most important scholarly discourses on country music of this decade” (Wondering Sound) and “a major reconceptualization of the history and … Read more
Victor Roman Mendoza (English, Women’s Studies) Deirdre de la Cruz (Asian Languages and Cultures, History) Maria Cotera (American Culture, Women’s Studies) In Metroimperial Intimacies (Duke University Press, 2015), Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and … Read more
Wang Zheng, Professor of Women’s Studies and History; Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender Mary E. Gallagher, Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Kathleen Canning, Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of History This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss the recent … Read more
Martha S. Jones, Presidential Bicentennial Professor, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Law Megan Sweeney, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies Tiya Miles, Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor of African American Women’s History, … Read more
Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science; Associate Director, IRWG Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Peter D. Jacobson, Professor of Health Law and Policy, Director, Center for Law, Ethics, and Health This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss the … Read more
Petra Kuppers, Professor of English, Women’s Studies, Art and Design, and Theatre Naomi Andre, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Director for Faculty at the Residential College Melanie Yergeau, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss Petra Kuppers’ recent poetry collection, PearlStitch … Read more
Rita Chin, Professor of History Kristin Dickinson, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Damani Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies In 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar … Read more
Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology, History of Art, Women’s Studies, and Art and Design; Affiliate Faculty, Robotics Institute Joy Rohde, Associate Professor of Public Policy and History Alexandra Stern, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, History, and Women’s Studies; Chair, Department of American Culture Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot … Read more
Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Anthropology, Afroamerican and African Studies Sandra Gunning, Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies, and American Culture Victor Mendoza, Associate Professor, English and Women’s Studies; Faculty Associate, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international … Read more
Naomi André, Associate Professor in Women’s Studies, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Director for Faculty at the Residential College Abigail Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies Gabriela Cruz, Associate Professor of Musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like … Read more