Department of English 2015-2016 Library Enhancement Grant Najwa Al-Tabaa, a PhD student in English, was awarded a Library Enhancement grant to further improve an already strong collection of comics in Library West by addressing a crucial absence: theoretical texts about comics. The acquisition of works such as The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture […]
Department of Classics 2015-2016 Library Enhancement Grant Dr. Eleni Bozia, Assistant Professor of Classics, was awarded a Library Enhancement grant to improve the current digital humanities collection in Library West. Over the past few decades, the digital humanities as a distinct interdisciplinary field of research has grown significantly. Many universities including Harvard, Princeton, and Duke […]
Department of English 2015-2016 Library Enhancement Grant Dr. Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of English, was awarded a Library Enhancement grant to acquire DVDs of contemporary Turkish German female filmmakers with additional faculty support from Holly Raynard, Esther Romeyn, Emrah Sahin, Sylvie Blum, and John Richard Stepp. In the 1960s, a generation of Turkish German filmmakers […]
Department of Religion 2016-2017 Library Enhancement Grant Dr. Terje Ostebo, Associate Professor in Religion, received a Library Enhancement Grant to improve the George A. Smathers Libraries holdings on the topic of global Islam. The Center for Global Islamic Studies (CGIS), an academic unit in CLAS created in 2014, creates a space for the multidisciplinary academic […]
Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies 2016-2017 Library Enhancement Grant Francesc Morales, a graduate student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese with the support of Dr. Luis Alvarez-Castro, received a Library Enhancement Grant to acquire films, novels, and scholarly works on modern Spanish terrorism. Political and religious conflict and suppression from the nineteenth century […]
School of Art + Art History 2016-2017 Library Enhancement Grant Lisa Iglesias, Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Art History, received a Library Enhancement Grant to purchase new texts by and about artists of color and from under-represented communities. The new acquisitions fundamentally expand the potential of researching work by under-represented writers and […]
School of Architecture 2016-2017 Library Enhancement Grant Dr. Vandana Baweja, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, received a Library Enhancement Grant to acquire books about cities in cinema. The making of space is important to understanding the function of art. The aesthetic effects of an artwork do not only consist in its own internal […]