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Wrestler El Santo
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Mexican Culture Explored Through Popular Icons
This fall, Luis Coronado Guel, coordinator of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' Mexico Initiatives,
will teach a new course titled "MAS 395A: Mexican Superheroes, Demons and Idols." The course examines Mexican culture and history by analyzing the role of popular culture icons. Guel says these icons represent people's fears and hopes and embody popular notions of justice and patriotism.
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Keyan Zhu, a 2016 B.A. in law graduate, now works as a paralegal in New York. |
Nation's First B.A. in Law Now Online
Enrollment in the B.A. in law degree, a partnership between the School of Government and Public Policy and the James E. Rogers College of Law, recently surpassed 700 students! The degree will be offered online in the fall.
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Megan Kimble. Photo by
Jacob Chinn
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Living Unprocessed
UA MFA creative writing alum Megan Kimble is featured in the summer issue of Arizona Alumni Magazine! She discusses her year-long project to eat food that was as unprocessed as possible, which she documents in her book, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food. Of the MFA program, Kimble says "The program was transformative for me. I can't say enough good things about it." More
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Eleni Hasaki. Photo by Grace Gegenheimer
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Greek Ceramic Production Over Five Millennia
In ancient Greece, people relied on their friendly neighborhood ceramics workshop for everything from dishes to perfume bottles to roofing materials.
A new project, led by anthropologist Eleni Hasaki, aims to map these critical centers of ceramics production across nearly 5,000 years of Greek history in a first-of-its-kind online database, designed to support archaeologists working in Greece today.
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Graduate student Adam Hough has traveled to the German cities of Wolfenbüttel and Augsburg for his research. |
The Reformation and Social Justice
This August, graduate students in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies will present the Division's Summer Lecture Series, titled "The Aftermath of the Reformation: Women, Minorities, Refugees, and the Demand for Social Justice." The Division attracts and graduates some of the best scholars in this field in the country.
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Regents' Professor Ronald Breiger
Check out this video of Ronald Breiger, Regents' Professor of Sociology! One of the world's foremost authorities on the modeling and analysis of social networks, Breiger has played an important role in applying network analytic techniques to the study of terrorism.
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Adel Gamal receives award from the Arab League.
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* Congratulations to
Adel Gamal, professor emeritus in the
School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies! The Arab League honored him as the best scholar in 2017 in classical Arabic Literary Heritage.
* Research by anthropologist David Raichlen and psychologist Gene Alexander found that exercise significantly benefits brain structure and function, likely because of how we evolved as physically active hunter-gatherers. More
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Kory Floyd
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* Kory Floyd, a professor in the Department of Communication, wrote an op-ed titled "The understated affection of fathers." More
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Benjamin Bellorado, a doctoral candidate in the
School of Anthropology, has conducted research in the Bears Ears National Monument area for 20 years. His work was covered in
this
New York Times article.
* Andrea Gerlak, an associate professor in the School of Geography and Development, wrote an op-ed about what the presidential administration must do to address the nation's growing water challenges in rural America. More
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Maribel Alvarez with
Jim Griffith
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* Professor Maribel Alvarez will occupy the Jim Griffith Public Folklore Chair, housed in the Southwest Center! More
* Laura A. Bakkensen and Riana Johnson, both with the School of Government and Public Policy, estimate impacts of extreme Tucson weather. More
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Jennifer Carlson
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* The work of sociologist Jennifer Carlson is cited in the story "Do African-Americans have a right to bear arms?" More
* Carolyn Lukensmeyer, director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, wrote the op-ed "What members of Congress can do to improve civility." More
* A paper co-authored by political scientist Samara Klar explains the efforts of the group "Women Also Know Stuff" to fight gender bias in political science. More
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Celeste González de Bustamante and
Jeannine Relly
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* A new study by School of Journalism faculty members Jeannine Relly and Celeste González de Bustamante aims to help global policymakers respond to violence against journalists. More
* William Mishler, professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, talked about his book, "Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians" on C-SPAN. More
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Natasha Warner assists Mutsun descendants with Mutsun pronunciation. Photo by Frank Perez
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* Nearly 80 Mutsun descendants attended a dictionary distribution and language workshop this summer in San Juan Bautista, Calif. The event was the first since the most comprehensive Mutsun-English, English-Mutsun dictionary was published online last year. Natasha Warner, head of the Department of Linguistics, and one of the dictionary's authors, helped lead the workshop. More
* Why can't the residents of Nogales, Mexico, access adequate housing? The article "Seeking a Home in Nogales," was written by Emma Lawlor and Noah Silber-Coats, doctoral students in the School of Geography and Development. More
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2017 Field Studies Grand Manan awardees
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* Click here to learn more about the Field Studies in Writing Program on Grand Manan Island, offered by the Creative Writing Program, with support from the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice. This initiative explores how the literary arts can create humane responses to environmental, social justice, and border issues.
* Diana Daily, an assistant professor in the School of Information, is interviewed about social media and how it affects our lifestyle. More
* Christina J. Diaz and Jeremy E. Fiel, assistant professors in the School of Sociology, received the 2017 Reuben Hill Award (best research article) from the National Council on Family Relations for their article on teen pregnancy.
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Professor Kim Newton hands South Korean President Moon Jae-in a 1987 photo. Newsis image
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* Kim Newton, a former freelance photographer and a faculty member in the School of Journalism, gave South Korean President Moon Jae-in a framed copy of an iconic image of student protesters during the 1987 democracy movement. More
* Nina Rabin, director of Border Research for SIROW and of the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program in the James E. Rogers College of Law, wrote an op-ed about the population of Central American mothers and children at the U.S./Mexico border. More
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Summer Lecture Series: "The Aftermath of the Reformation: Women, Minorities, Refugees, and the Demand for Social Justice"
Presented by the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies
Location: St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church
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"Reforming the Virgin, the Wife, and the Widow: Changing Visions of Womanhood in the Sixteen Century"
Aug. 6, 10:15 a.m.
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"'Strangers in a Strange Land': Religious Refugees and Exiles in the Reformation"
Aug. 13, 10:15 a.m.
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"'We take it for granted that you will release us from serfdom as true Christians': The Reformation and the Peasants"
Aug. 20, 10:15 a.m.
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"Persecution and Tolerance: How Anabaptists, Jews, and Roma ('Gypsies') fared in the Reformation Era"
Aug. 27, 10:15 a.m.
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Poetry Reading by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Presented by the Poetry Center, the College of SBS, and the American Friends Service Committee
Aug. 31, 7 p.m.
Location: Poetry Center
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"Haunted (Moskoun)" part of the Fall 2017 Film Series
Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Sept. 6, 7 p.m.
Location: Cesar Chavez 111
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CMES 5th Annual Fall Used Book Sale
Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Sept. 15, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Location: Marshall 490
CMES will sell thousands of (mostly) Middle East-themed books, VHS tapes, mounted photographs of the Middle East, and more!
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