In Conversation: Recent Episodes
Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D.
In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talking with Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each episode spotlights a professor whose scholarly work is affecting the world in a significant way. Listeners will not only learn of the latest developments in the many academic disciplines of the college, but will gain insight into the creative and critical processes our scholars and artists brings to their projects. In Conversation is a production of Dr. Kevin Petrich and journalism students in FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.
In this edition of In Conversation, Dr. Michael Horswell engages with Professors Dr. Carol Bishop Mills & Dr. Kevin Wagner, Co-Directors of the PolCom Lab in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The PolCom Lab investigates and analyzes public opinion and political trends nationwide, focusing on Florida.
Dr. Carol Bishop Mills is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the co-director of the FAU PolCom Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University and is known for her extensive research in relational communication, particularly in complex dynamics such as teasing, bullying, harassment, and frenemyships. Her recent work focuses on bullying within academic settings, providing critical insights into how these behaviors impact both individuals and institutions. Dr. Mills has published widely on these topics and previously co-chaired the National Communication Association’s Anti-Bullying Task Force and served as the editor for the newsletter for the Global Listening Centre.
Kevin Wagner is a Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the PolCom Lab and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He teaches courses on American politics, political organizations, public opinion, judicial politics, and media in politics. Wagner’s research has primarily centered around understanding political change in democratic systems including shifts caused by technological developments. His expertise has been featured in leading publications including the New York Times and American Review of Politics. Dr. Wagner earned a J.D. from the University of Florida and previously worked as a practicing attorney before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Florida.
In this edition of In Conversation, Dr. Michael Horswell engages with Professors Dr. Carol Bishop Mills & Dr. Kevin Wagner, Co-Directors of the PolCom Lab in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The PolCom Lab investigates and analyzes public opinion and political trends nationwide, focusing on Florida.
Dr. Carol Bishop Mills is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the co-director of the FAU PolCom Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University and is known for her extensive research in relational communication, particularly in complex dynamics such as teasing, bullying, harassment, and frenemyships. Her recent work focuses on bullying within academic settings, providing critical insights into how these behaviors impact both individuals and institutions. Dr. Mills has published widely on these topics and previously co-chaired the National Communication Association’s Anti-Bullying Task Force and served as the editor for the newsletter for the Global Listening Centre.
Kevin Wagner is a Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the PolCom Lab and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He teaches courses on American politics, political organizations, public opinion, judicial politics, and media in politics. Wagner’s research has primarily centered around understanding political change in democratic systems including shifts caused by technological developments. His expertise has been featured in leading publications including the New York Times and American Review of Politics. Dr. Wagner earned a J.D. from the University of Florida and previously worked as a practicing attorney before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Florida.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Annette LaRocco, an associate professor in FAU’s Department of Political Science. In this upcoming episode, Dr. LaRocco discusses several topics, including conservation politics, how studying abroad helped shape her career, and her new book, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana.
Why do states choose to set aside land for national parks and other protected areas? How do these decisions impact their citizens and structure their economies? How and why do states decide to make governing their environments a political priority? These are questions explored by Annette LaRocco in her book The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and years of extensive fieldwork in Botswana, LaRocco argues that the seemingly mundane processes of conserving landscapes and wildlife are, in fact, deeply political acts that are essential to state-building for many countries in the postcolonial Global South. Conservation itself is political and impacts human populations and societies, irrespective of its ecological or biological impacts. In her new book, she explores how conservation is a way that states exert their authority over people, places, and resources and how it structures economic relationships at local, national, and global levels.
Dr. LaRocco, Ph.D., teaches classes in African politics, environmental politics, the politics of global development, and international relations at Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science. . Her research interests include the study of political implications of biodiversity conservation and other environmental policies, specifically in regions of the postcolonial Global South. She has conducted fieldwork in southern Africa for over a decade, most recently as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Annette LaRocco, an associate professor in FAU’s Department of Political Science. In this upcoming episode, Dr. LaRocco discusses several topics, including conservation politics, how studying abroad helped shape her career, and her new book, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana.
Why do states choose to set aside land for national parks and other protected areas? How do these decisions impact their citizens and structure their economies? How and why do states decide to make governing their environments a political priority? These are questions explored by Annette LaRocco in her book The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and years of extensive fieldwork in Botswana, LaRocco argues that the seemingly mundane processes of conserving landscapes and wildlife are, in fact, deeply political acts that are essential to state-building for many countries in the postcolonial Global South. Conservation itself is political and impacts human populations and societies, irrespective of its ecological or biological impacts. In her new book, she explores how conservation is a way that states exert their authority over people, places, and resources and how it structures economic relationships at local, national, and global levels.
Dr. LaRocco, Ph.D., teaches classes in African politics, environmental politics, the politics of global development, and international relations at Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science. . Her research interests include the study of political implications of biodiversity conservation and other environmental policies, specifically in regions of the postcolonial Global South. She has conducted fieldwork in southern Africa for over a decade, most recently as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Kyle Prescott, a Professor of Music and a Conductor at Florida Atlantic University. In this upcoming episode, Dr. Prescott talks about his recent experience conducting the iconic Rhapsody in Blue, a 100-Year Tribute to Gershwin's American classic at the Festival of Arts Boca.
Dr. Kyle Prescott holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. He's presented his research internationally at peer-reviewed conferences, including once for the National Security Agency, regarding research into US Navy Band Musicians in the world of cryptology in the mid- 20th Century.
In demand as a teacher of conducting, Dr Prescott has worked with over 450 professional conductors in the refinement of their craft. He is President-elect of the Florida Collegiate Music Education Association, a past Florida Chair of the College Band Directors National Association, Past President of The Symphonia Orchestra, is Conductor and Music Director of the professional Florida Wind Symphony and FWS Jazz Orchestra, as well as the Boca Festival of the Arts Jazz Orchestra, whose inaugural performance included the original 1924 version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue discussed in this ‘In Conversation’ podcast with Dean Horswell.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Kyle Prescott, a Professor of Music and a Conductor at Florida Atlantic University. In this upcoming episode, Dr. Prescott talks about his recent experience conducting the iconic Rhapsody in Blue, a 100-Year Tribute to Gershwin's American classic at the Festival of Arts Boca.
Dr. Kyle Prescott holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. He's presented his research internationally at peer-reviewed conferences, including once for the National Security Agency, regarding research into US Navy Band Musicians in the world of cryptology in the mid- 20th Century.
In demand as a teacher of conducting, Dr Prescott has worked with over 450 professional conductors in the refinement of their craft. He is President-elect of the Florida Collegiate Music Education Association, a past Florida Chair of the College Band Directors National Association, Past President of The Symphonia Orchestra, is Conductor and Music Director of the professional Florida Wind Symphony and FWS Jazz Orchestra, as well as the Boca Festival of the Arts Jazz Orchestra, whose inaugural performance included the original 1924 version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue discussed in this ‘In Conversation’ podcast with Dean Horswell.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Stephen Engle, an award-winning history professor with over 32 years of experience in teaching and writing about nineteenth-century America.
This episode of In Conversation delves into Dr. Engle's new book, In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew. Stephen and Dr. Horswell discuss John Albion's one profoundly radical idea: that all men truly are created equal. He championed lost causes, loathed America’s racial prejudices, and sought justice for the lowly, even when the fight was wholly unpopular. His story (from the 1830s through the 1860s) places slavery and abolition at the center of America’s history and affirms that a life driven by justice and conviction can be timeless.
Like Lincoln, his career was a reminder of the national tragedy that ensued from standing up for such beliefs, as opposing factions shaped divergent paths toward their vision of the “more perfect Union” that the founding fathers had charted in the Constitution. Throughout his life Andrew watched as the expanding republic struggled to endure half slave and half free. He recognized that slavery was incompatible with the Christian notion of inalienable human rights (as well as free-market capitalism), yet he lived in a strident era when sectionalism was shaping questions of territorial development and challenging Americans to decide whether God or man had relegated African Americans to human chattel. Slavery’s expansion heightened the young idealist’s political awareness.
When the Civil War erupted just four months into his first term, Andrew considered the conflict not only a contest to restore the Union but also to advance the progress of the human condition in America. He advocated for emancipation during the war and persuaded the Lincoln administration to allow him to raise all-black regiments to fight for the Union and thereby demonstrate African American fitness for citizenship.
Andrew spent his life following Theodore Parker’s axiom. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one,” said Parker, “my eye reaches but little ways, I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight: I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” Andrew saw the war as the opportunity to redefine the republic by embracing racial progress by ending slavery and bending the arm of the moral universe. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would repeat Parker’ words more than 100 years later in seeking racial justice.
Dr. Stephen Engle has received numerous awards throughout his career including being named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians, a Fulbright Scholar for a year, a Gilder Lehrman Fellow, and a Huntington Library Fellow. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Germany, has appeared in c-span's Lectures in American History, and most recently lectures for the Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Smithsonian Associates Program. He is widely published in the genre of 19th Century American, having authored numerous books, essays, articles, and reviews including the prizing-winningGathering to Save a Nation (2016) and In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew (2023).
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Stephen Engle, an award-winning history professor with over 32 years of experience in teaching and writing about nineteenth-century America.
This episode of In Conversation delves into Dr. Engle's new book, In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew. Stephen and Dr. Horswell discuss John Albion's one profoundly radical idea: that all men truly are created equal. He championed lost causes, loathed America’s racial prejudices, and sought justice for the lowly, even when the fight was wholly unpopular. His story (from the 1830s through the 1860s) places slavery and abolition at the center of America’s history and affirms that a life driven by justice and conviction can be timeless.
Like Lincoln, his career was a reminder of the national tragedy that ensued from standing up for such beliefs, as opposing factions shaped divergent paths toward their vision of the “more perfect Union” that the founding fathers had charted in the Constitution. Throughout his life Andrew watched as the expanding republic struggled to endure half slave and half free. He recognized that slavery was incompatible with the Christian notion of inalienable human rights (as well as free-market capitalism), yet he lived in a strident era when sectionalism was shaping questions of territorial development and challenging Americans to decide whether God or man had relegated African Americans to human chattel. Slavery’s expansion heightened the young idealist’s political awareness.
When the Civil War erupted just four months into his first term, Andrew considered the conflict not only a contest to restore the Union but also to advance the progress of the human condition in America. He advocated for emancipation during the war and persuaded the Lincoln administration to allow him to raise all-black regiments to fight for the Union and thereby demonstrate African American fitness for citizenship.
Andrew spent his life following Theodore Parker’s axiom. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one,” said Parker, “my eye reaches but little ways, I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight: I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” Andrew saw the war as the opportunity to redefine the republic by embracing racial progress by ending slavery and bending the arm of the moral universe. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would repeat Parker’ words more than 100 years later in seeking racial justice.
Dr. Stephen Engle has received numerous awards throughout his career including being named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians, a Fulbright Scholar for a year, a Gilder Lehrman Fellow, and a Huntington Library Fellow. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Germany, has appeared in c-span's Lectures in American History, and most recently lectures for the Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Smithsonian Associates Program. He is widely published in the genre of 19th Century American, having authored numerous books, essays, articles, and reviews including the prizing-winningGathering to Save a Nation (2016) and In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew (2023).
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, an associate professor of Spanish at Florida Atlantic University.
In this episode of In Conversation, Alejandra and Dean Horswell discuss her book, Between Bronze and Oblivion: Heroism and African descent in Colombia, Brazil and Cuba. They explore the unsung heroes of Black History Month (February 1st- March 1st).
María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles has a doctorate in Latin American Literature and Gender Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her research, with an interdisciplinary approach, explores discourses of racial and gender differentiation, as well as politics of contestation in Latin American cultural production. She has published academic articles on poetry, narrative, and theater from Brazil, Colombia, and the Hispanic Caribbean in Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, and Afro-Hispanic Review. She participated in the edition by María Mercedes Jaramillo and Betty Osorio titled Cantos y Poems: Critical Anthology of Afro-descendant Authors from Latin America, published by the National Library of Colombia in 2020. Her article “Heroism and racial consciousness in the work of the poet Afro-Cuban Cristina Ayala” has been awarded the Harold Eugene Davis Prize awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) and the Ibero-American Prize for 19th Century Academic Articles (LASA).
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, an associate professor of Spanish at Florida Atlantic University.
In this episode of In Conversation, Alejandra and Dean Horswell discuss her book, Between Bronze and Oblivion: Heroism and African descent in Colombia, Brazil and Cuba. They explore the unsung heroes of Black History Month (February 1st- March 1st).
María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles has a doctorate in Latin American Literature and Gender Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her research, with an interdisciplinary approach, explores discourses of racial and gender differentiation, as well as politics of contestation in Latin American cultural production. She has published academic articles on poetry, narrative, and theater from Brazil, Colombia, and the Hispanic Caribbean in Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, and Afro-Hispanic Review. She participated in the edition by María Mercedes Jaramillo and Betty Osorio titled Cantos y Poems: Critical Anthology of Afro-descendant Authors from Latin America, published by the National Library of Colombia in 2020. Her article “Heroism and racial consciousness in the work of the poet Afro-Cuban Cristina Ayala” has been awarded the Harold Eugene Davis Prize awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) and the Ibero-American Prize for 19th Century Academic Articles (LASA).
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Bogdan Ștefănescu, a professor of English, a literary translator, a journalist, and a cultural diplomat. He has taught at the University of Bucharest since the fall of communism in Romania, in 1990.
Ștefănescu is a professor of English, which for him has always meant a language of freedom, as opposed to the wooden lingo of political dogma and of captive minds. For him, the key to understanding human culture and history is discourse. He loves the idea that humans are discursive animals and he feels that our lives span two interrelated universes: one is a space-time-motion continuum, the other is a speech-thought-action continuum.
He teaches literature and cultural studies from a comparative perspective. For him, true knowledge is always comparative, which means not so much comparing different things from a single perspective, as comparing different perspectives on the same thing. His recent research is concerned with the rhetoric of national identification, and with the similar way in which cultures strive to reconstruct their self-images that were traumatized by the competing Western and Soviet colonial systems.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Bogdan Ștefănescu, a professor of English, a literary translator, a journalist, and a cultural diplomat. He has taught at the University of Bucharest since the fall of communism in Romania, in 1990.
Ștefănescu is a professor of English, which for him has always meant a language of freedom, as opposed to the wooden lingo of political dogma and of captive minds. For him, the key to understanding human culture and history is discourse. He loves the idea that humans are discursive animals and he feels that our lives span two interrelated universes: one is a space-time-motion continuum, the other is a speech-thought-action continuum.
He teaches literature and cultural studies from a comparative perspective. For him, true knowledge is always comparative, which means not so much comparing different things from a single perspective, as comparing different perspectives on the same thing. His recent research is concerned with the rhetoric of national identification, and with the similar way in which cultures strive to reconstruct their self-images that were traumatized by the competing Western and Soviet colonial systems.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marina Banchetti, Ph.D.,
a professor of philosophy in FAU’s Department of Philosophy. They discuss Dr. Banchetti's expertise in the philosophy of science and how humans' perception of nature and the universe has evolved over time.
We invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at the science and history of philosophy.
Professor Banchetti’s research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science with a recent focus on the history and philosophy of chemistry. She has recently published two books on these topics: The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and From the Atom to Living Systems: A Chemical and Philosophical Journey into Modern and Contemporary Science (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-written with the Italian chemist Giovanni Villani.
Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marina Banchetti, Ph.D.,
a professor of philosophy in FAU’s Department of Philosophy. They discuss Dr. Banchetti's expertise in the philosophy of science and how humans' perception of nature and the universe has evolved over time.
We invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at the science and history of philosophy.
Professor Banchetti’s research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science with a recent focus on the history and philosophy of chemistry. She has recently published two books on these topics: The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and From the Atom to Living Systems: A Chemical and Philosophical Journey into Modern and Contemporary Science (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-written with the Italian chemist Giovanni Villani.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Ivy Ashe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of multimedia journalism at FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. They discuss the mystique of an often overlooked yet fascinating discipline of journalism: travel journalism.
We invite you to join us as we journey to exotic destinations and experience nature’s stories told through the lens of an innovative, pioneer journalist.
Ivy Ashe teaches photojournalism, multimedia journalism, and sports communication. Her areas of research focus on travel media and visual communication. Before entering academia, Ashe worked for local newspapers in Massachusetts and Hawai‘i. As a former community news reporter and photographer, she is deeply invested in research investigating journalism's role in structuring the public’s sense of place, particularly places best known as tourist or seasonal destinations.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Ivy Ashe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of multimedia journalism at FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. They discuss the mystique of an often overlooked yet fascinating discipline of journalism: travel journalism.
We invite you to join us as we journey to exotic destinations and experience nature’s stories told through the lens of an innovative, pioneer journalist.
Ivy Ashe teaches photojournalism, multimedia journalism, and sports communication. Her areas of research focus on travel media and visual communication. Before entering academia, Ashe worked for local newspapers in Massachusetts and Hawai‘i. As a former community news reporter and photographer, she is deeply invested in research investigating journalism's role in structuring the public’s sense of place, particularly places best known as tourist or seasonal destinations.
Associate Dean Barclay Barrios fills in for regular host Dean Michael Horswell, and engages In Conversation with Amy Broderick, MFA, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting in FAU's Department of Visual Arts and Art History. Professor Broderick's creative practice encompasses artmaking, art writing, teaching and mentorship. In her studio work, she uses the processes of drawing, photography and paper construction to note the specific topography of everyday life. Professor Broderick's work reveals the wonders that reside within the details, while grappling with the loss of those details in the fleetingness of time.
Associate Dean Barclay Barrios fills in for regular host Dean Michael Horswell, and engages In Conversation with Wendy Hinshaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Writing Programs for the English Department. Dr. Hinshaw teaches courses in rhetoric, literacy, women's literature and prison writing, with articles on representations of trauma with regard to art and writing by prisoners. She is working to bring public awareness to prisoners' writing and to help prisoners' voices be heard.
Associate Dean Barclay Barrios, fills in for regular host Dean Michael Horswell, and engages In Conversation with Marc Decker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands/Director of Athletic Bands. Dr. Decker is an active arranger, drill writer, guest conductor and adjudicator. He has also published journal articles and presented at national conferences one a variety of subjects, including the works of various composers, teaching pedagogy and recruiting strategies for college marching bands.
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Clevis Headley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Headley specializes in Africana philosophy, critical race theory, epistemology, analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. He has co-edited three books, George Yancy: A Critical Introduction (2021), Haiti and the Americas (2013), and Shifting the Geography of Reason (2007). He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Race, Philosophy, and Being: Working Through the Contestability of Race and Philosophy.
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Lotus Seeley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology. Following the #MeToo movement, Dr. Seeley discusses how gender manifests in different areas of our lives and how people balance work and life in the same place, with many working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is currently researching the experiences of women workers in the gig economy.
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Ilaria Serra, Ph.D., Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, whose areas of expertise include Italian cinema, popular song and cultural studies, as well as the history of Italian immigration. Dr. Serra also discusses her latest book, "Italia Cantata: A Culture and Language Textbook."
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Marek Muller, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies in the Communication and Multimedia Studies Department. Dr. Muller's specializations include rhetorical theory and criticism, critical-cultural communication studies, legal studies and critical animal studies. She is a rhetorician interested in human rights, nonhuman animal rights and the humanity/animality dialectic. Her latest publication is "Impersonating Animals, Rhetoric, Ecofeminism and Animal Rights Law."
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Lee Soroko, Assistant Professor of Movement at FAU's Theater and Dance Department. He is a fight director and instructor who insures the safety of actors during fight scenes on stage. In 2022, Professor Soroko will be choreographing the violence scenes for "Carmen" at the Palm Beach Opera.
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Stacey Balkan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, who has been researching how the past can predict our future. Her upcoming book, "Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India," includes an investigation of new extra-activist frontiers, including solar capitalism and the and the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the subcontinent and beyond.
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Stacey Balkan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, who has been researching how the past can predict our future. Her upcoming book, "Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India," includes an investigation of new extra-activist frontiers, including solar capitalism and the and the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the subcontinent and beyond.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with ethnomusicologist, percussionist, composer and FAU music professor Andres Espinoza, Ph.D. about his upcoming book, Una Sola Casa: Salsa Consciente and the Poetics of the Meta-barrio, his analysis of the impact of Salsa music as an forging element of social and political identity within Latino and Latin American communities. He also speaks about his Born From the Drum audio and video project, rooted in ceremonial drumming.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with FAU's Associate Professor of American History, Adrian Finucane, PhD on her upcoming book Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War and the Trade in Secrets, 1700-1760, which addresses themes of warfare and incarceration as well as empire and cultural contact in the 18th-century Atlantic world.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with FAU's Associate Professor of American History, Adrian Finucane, PhD on her upcoming book Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War and the Trade in Secrets, 1700-1760, which addresses themes of warfare and incarceration as well as empire and cultural contact in the 18th-century Atlantic world. The work argues that prisoners of war acted as crucial conduits in the development of military and commercial intelligence in the long conflict between the growing British colonies of the southeast and Spanish Florida. Captive Exchanges speaks to current scholarly concerns about alternative histories of warfare and carceral studies, as well as historiographical debates about the extent of power held by imperial states and the amount of interconnection that developed among people who lived precariously on the borders of these empires.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Daniel Bolojan as they discuss innovation in deep learning, through the project Deep Himmelb(l)au, and how it can impact the future of Architecture.
Deep learning is an artificial intelligence (AI) function that imitates the workings of the human brain in processing data and creating patterns for use in decision making.
Daniel Bolojan is an Assistant Professor, in the School of Architecture, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is currently focusing on the application of computational design and deep learning strategies in architecture and architectural design process. Over the years, he has taught several design studios and seminars at the Institute of Structure and Design-University of Innsbruck, Florida International University Miami and conducted numerous international workshops and conference workshops, dealing with the application of complex systems and Neural Networks in architectural design.
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Institute of Architecture, Vienna – Austria.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Daniel Bolojan as they discuss innovation in deep learning, through the project Deep Himmelb(l)au, and how it can impact the future of Architecture.
Deep learning is an artificial intelligence (AI) function that imitates the workings of the human brain in processing data and creating patterns for use in decision making.
Daniel Bolojan is an Assistant Professor, in the School of Architecture, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is currently focusing on the application of computational design and deep learning strategies in architecture and architectural design process. Over the years, he has taught several design studios and seminars at the Institute of Structure and Design-University of Innsbruck, Florida International University Miami and conducted numerous international workshops and conference workshops, dealing with the application of complex systems and Neural Networks in architectural design.
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Institute of Architecture, Vienna – Austria.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D., as they discuss navigating race, culture, and gender with poetry and spoken word.
Marquese McFerguson is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
His work explores the interconnected dynamics of race, culture, gender, and media. His essay, "When Hip Hop Speaks, We Listen" won the John T. Warren Top Paper Award in 2018. Last year he won the Art Bochner Outstanding Doctoral Research Scholar Award from the University of South Florida. He is a master of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D. as they discuss navigating race, culture, and gender with poetry and spoken word.
Marquese McFerguson is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
His work explores the interconnected dynamics of race, culture, gender, and media. His essay, "When Hip Hop Speaks, We Listen" won the John T. Warren Top Paper Award in 2018. Last year he won the Art Bochner Outstanding Doctoral Research Scholar Award from the University of South Florida. He is a master of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word.
Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Mehmet Gurses as they discuss the complex nature of armed conflict and how wartime experience can bring about trauma and growth.
Mehmet Gurses (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007) is a professor in the Department of Political Science, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, Kurdish politics, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Mehmet Gurses as they discuss the complex nature of armed conflict and how wartime experience can bring about trauma and growth.
Mehmet Gurses (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007) is a professor in the Department of Political Science, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, Kurdish politics, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky as they discuss their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, the intersectionality between Superheroes, racial identity, and racial politics in American popular culture.
Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University where she specializes in contemporary African American literature and Critical Mixed-Race Studies. She is author of Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (University of Tennessee Press, 2013) and co-editor of Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Her publications have appeared in journals such as African American Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.
Eric Berlatsky, PhD, is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English. He is also, through June 2021, currently the Acting Chair of the Department of English. Previous to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of English for 6.5 years. He is the author of The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012). He has published articles on the fiction or comics of Charles Dickens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Graham Swift, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Hanif Kureishi, and Posy Simmonds. He has co-published work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Man with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, has just been released from Rutgers UP, and includes his essay on The Flash comics and television show.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky as they discuss their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, the intersectionality between Superheroes, racial identity, and racial politics in American popular culture.
Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University where she specializes in contemporary African American literature and Critical Mixed-Race Studies. She is author of Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (University of Tennessee Press, 2013) and co-editor of Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Her publications have appeared in journals such as African American Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.
Eric Berlatsky, PhD, is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English. He is also, through June 2021, currently the Acting Chair of the Department of English. Previous to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of English for 6.5 years. He is the author of The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012). He has published articles on the fiction or comics of Charles Dickens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Graham Swift, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Hanif Kureishi, and Posy Simmonds. He has co-published work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Man with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, has just been released from Rutgers UP, and includes his essay on The Flash comics and television show.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Jeffrey E. Huber, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, MLA
Interim Director and Associate Professor for the School of Architecture, as they discuss landscapes that flow with nature and not against it.
Jeff Huber is an Associate Professor and Director of MetroLAB in the School of Architecture at FAU where he teaches upper-division architecture studios. Huber also teaches lecture courses on urban design, and materials and methods of construction. His work focuses on interdisciplinary public work projects that combine ecological, landscape, urban, and architectural design. Huber is also a principal in the internationally recognized firm of Brooks + Scarpa and manages their South Florida office. He is currently researching issues of sea-level rise in south Florida and has established over a quarter of a million dollars in grant funding in that effort through the National Endowment of the Arts and Florida Sea Grant programs.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Jeffrey E. Huber, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, MLA
Interim Director and Associate Professor for the School of Architecture, as they discuss landscapes that flow with nature and not against it.
Jeff Huber is an Associate Professor and Director of MetroLAB in the School of Architecture at FAU where he teaches upper-division architecture studios. Huber also teaches lecture courses on urban design, and materials and methods of construction. His work focuses on interdisciplinary public work projects that combine ecological, landscape, urban, and architectural design. Huber is also a principal in the internationally recognized firm of Brooks + Scarpa and manages their South Florida office. He is currently researching issues of sea-level rise in south Florida and has established over a quarter of a million dollars in grant funding in that effort through the National Endowment of the Arts and Florida Sea Grant programs.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Alejandro Sánchez–Samper, Professor of Music, as they discuss honoring and bringing new life to Columbian Andean regional music.
Professor Sánchez–Samper is the Assistant Director of Commercial Music in the Department of Music, in the School of the Arts, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Alejandro Sánchez–Samper was recently nominated for a Latin Grammy and is currently working on a documentary project about Columbian Andean music. He received an ASCAP fellowship award to study film scoring at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, where he was mentored by various distinguished film composers such as Howard Shore, Jeff Rona, Thomas Newman and John Williams. He has written, produced and recorded music for film, orchestra, stage and commercial music projects. He is the faculty supervisor for Hoot/Wisdom Recordings and teaches Audio Engineering for the Musician, Live Sound Reinforcement, Computer Music Sequencing and Introduction to Music Business.
Hoot/Wisdom Recordings L.L.C is a student-run record label, located right on Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton Campus.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Alejandro Sánchez–Samper, Professor of Music, as they discuss honoring and bringing new life to Columbian Andean regional music.
Professor Sánchez–Samper is the Assistant Director of Commercial Music in the Department of Music, in the School of the Arts, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Alejandro Sánchez–Samper was recently nominated for a Latin Grammy and is currently working on a documentary project about Columbian Andean music. He received an ASCAP fellowship award to study film scoring at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, where he was mentored by various distinguished film composers such as Howard Shore, Jeff Rona, Thomas Newman and John Williams. He has written, produced and recorded music for film, orchestra, stage and commercial music projects. He is the faculty supervisor for Hoot/Wisdom Recordings and teaches Audio Engineering for the Musician, Live Sound Reinforcement, Computer Music Sequencing and Introduction to Music Business.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Joey Bargsten, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, as they discuss how Dr. Bargsten combines digital art, film, video games, interactivity, music, and performances from actors to create immersive storytelling through virtual reality.
Dr. Bargsten is an Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Recent Publications:
Narrative and Spatial Design through Immersive Music and Audio . The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 5th Annual Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (2020).
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Joey Bargsten, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, as they discuss how Dr. Bargsten combines digital art, film, video games, interactivity, music, and performances from actors to create immersive storytelling through virtual reality.
Dr. Bargsten is an Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Recent Publications:
Narrative and Spatial Design through Immersive Music and Audio . The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 5th Annual Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (2020).
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Becka McKay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Translation and Creative Writing, and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, as they discuss her passion for the written word, what inspires her to write, and her process on how she constructs her own poetry.
Dr. McKay is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by Shearsman Books in 2010. She has published three translations of fiction from the Hebrew: Laundry (Autumn Hill Books, 2008), Blue Has No South (Clockroot, 2010), and Lunar Savings Time (Clockroot, 2011). She has received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the American Literary Translators Association, and a Witter Byner Poetry Translation Residency. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax and elsewhere.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Becka McKay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Translation and Creative Writing, and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, as they discuss her passion for the written word, what inspires her to write, and her process on how she constructs her own poetry.
Dr. McKay is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by Shearsman Books in 2010. She has published three translations of fiction from the Hebrew: Laundry (Autumn Hill Books, 2008), Blue Has No South (Clockroot, 2010), and Lunar Savings Time (Clockroot, 2011). She has received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the American Literary Translators Association, and a Witter Byner Poetry Translation Residency. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax and elsewhere.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Chris Robé, Professor of Film Studies, and Stephen Charbonneau, Associate Professor of Film Studies and they discuss their new book InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader.
Dr. Robe is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Charbonneau is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Director in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Readeris available now.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Chris Robé, Professor of Film Studies, and Stephen Charbonneau, Associate Professor of Film Studies and they discuss their new book InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader.
Dr. Robe is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Charbonneau is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Director in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.
InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Readeris available now.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Thomas Stollar, Ph.D. and they discuss ceramics as a medium and how it can also archive a civilization.
Dr. Stollar is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics, in the Department of Visual Arts & Art History, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the creator of the online exhibition platform “DISTANT CERAMICS.” To view some of his works please visit his website, http://thomastollar.com/.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Thomas Stollar, Ph.D. and they discuss ceramics as a medium and how it can also archive a civilization.
Dr. Stollar is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics, in the Department of Visual Arts & Art History, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the creator of the online exhibition platform “DISTANT CERAMICS.”
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.
Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.
Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider, Ph.D. and they discuss Artificial Intelligence and its implications for the future.
Dr. Schneider is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Mind at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, with a joint appointment in the Brain Institute. She will also be the founding director of a center on the future of the mind.
Her book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, is available on Amazon.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider, Ph.D. and they discuss Artificial Intelligence and its implications for the future.
Dr. Schneider is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Mind at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, with a joint appointment in the Brain Institute. She will also be the founding director of a center on the future of the mind.
Her book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, is available on Amazon.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Affiliate Associate Professor, Peter Cruise, Ph.D., and they discuss using the FAU Ethics Academy model to educate and engage.
Dr. Peter Cruise is an Affiliate Associate Professor and the Executive Director of the LeRoy Collins Public Ethics Academy for the School of Public Administration in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Affiliate Associate Professor, Peter Cruise, Ph.D., and they discuss using the FAU Ethics Academy model to educate and engage.
Dr. Peter Cruise is an Affiliate Associate Professor and the Executive Director of the LeRoy Collins Public Ethics Academy for the School of Public Administration in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of History, Jason Sharples, Ph.D., and they discuss how looking to the past can bring clarity to the present.
Dr. Jason Sharples is a historian, author and Associate Professor of American History and World Civilizations in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of History.
The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America (Early American Studies)
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of History, Jason Sharples, Ph.D., and they discuss how looking to the past can bring clarity to the present.
Dr. Jason Sharples is a historian, author and Associate Professor of American History and World Civilizations in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of History.
The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America (Early American Studies)
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor of Visual Arts and Art History, Carol Prusa, MFA, about her artwork which spans from silverpoint drawing to sculpture.
Professor Prusa has been featured in galleries and museums across the globe.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor of Visual Arts and Art History, Carol Prusa, MFA, about her artwork which spans from silverpoint drawing to sculpture.
Professor Prusa has been featured in galleries and museums across the globe.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Brian McConnell, Ph.D., about exploring ancient Palikè, Sicily, in Italy.
Dr. McConnell is an Archaeologist, Author, and Professor of Art History and Classical Archaelogy in FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Visual Arts and Art History.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Brian McConnell, Ph.D., about exploring ancient Palikè, Sicily, in Italy.
Dr. McConnell is an Archaeologist, Author, and Professor of Art History and Classical Archaelogy in FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Visual Arts and Art History.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professors, Emily Fenichel, Ph.D., and Camila Afanador-Llach, about The Arquin Slide Collection.
FAU has become home to a unique collection of images showcasing 1940’s and 50’s Latin American artists, architecture, and culture. Among these are 25,000 slides by renowned photographer, Florence Arquin.
Arquin was a contemporary and friend of artists Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera. She also hoped her work would enhance the study of Latin America and promote Pan-Americanism.
Art History Professor Emily Fenichel and Graphic Design Professor Camila Afanador-Llach have made it their mission to bring Arquin’s work to life for a twenty-first century audience through a digital archive of FAU’s Arquin Collection.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professors, Emily Fenichel, Ph.D., and Camila Afanador-Llach, about The Arquin Slide Collection.
FAU has become home to a unique collection of images showcasing 1940’s and 50’s Latin American artists, architecture, and culture. Among these are 25,000 slides by renowned photographer, Florence Arquin.
Arquin was a contemporary and friend of artists Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera. She also hoped her work would enhance the study of Latin America and promote Pan-Americanism.
Art History Professor Emily Fenichel and Graphic Design Professor Camila Afanador-Llach have made it their mission to bring Arquin’s work to life for a twenty-first century audience through a digital archive of FAU’s Arquin Collection.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor, Rebecca LeMoine, Ph.D., about her book Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity.
Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity
by Rebecca LeMoine
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor, Rebecca LeMoine, Ph.D., about her book Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity.
Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity
by Rebecca LeMoine
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor Mary Cameron, Ph.D., about her 2019 book Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature and Social Change.
Mary M. Cameron first encountered an Ayurvedic medical practice in remote, western Nepal in 1978. In Three Fruits, Cameron traces Ayurvedic medical practices from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Fruits-Anthropology-Well-Being-Individual/dp/1498594239
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor Mary Cameron, Ph.D., about her 2019 book Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature and Social Change.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Fruits-Anthropology-Well-Being-Individual/dp/1498594239
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of History, Kelly Shannon, Ph.D., about her 2018 book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights, published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of History, Kelly Shannon, Ph.D., about her 2018 book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights, published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Meredith A. B. Ellis, Ph.D., about her research interests and how archaeology is also a profoundly important extension of her passion for storytelling. Dr. Ellis's research focuses on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. Specifically, she focuses on historical sites and on the remains of children.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Meredith A. B. Ellis, Ph.D., about her research interests and how archaeology is also a profoundly important extension of her passion for storytelling. Dr. Ellis's research focuses on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. Specifically, she focuses on historical sites and on the remains of children.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Art History, Joseph Velasquez, MFA, about his love of Print Making. Professor Velasquez and a grad school classmate launched Mobile Print Studio and Exhibition, taking a 14th Century-Style printing press on the road.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Art History, Joseph Velasquez, MFA, about his love of Print Making. Professor Velasquez and a grad school classmate launched Mobile Print Studio and Exhibition, taking a 14th Century-Style printing press on the road.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Kevin Wagner, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, about his groundbreaking research concerning the impact of social media on elections in the US and other countries. Dr. Wagner delves into how authoritarian regimes like China and Russia cleverly use social media to allow dissidents to express dissatisfaction with their local governments while consolidating their centralized control and limiting their people’s ability to affect real change.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Kevin Wagner, Professor of Political Science, about his groundbreaking research concerning the impact of social media on elections in the US and other countries. Dr. Wagner delves into how authoritarian regimes like China and Russia cleverly use social media to allow dissidents to express dissatisfaction with their local governments while consolidating their centralized control and limiting their people’s ability to affect real change.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Production, Chris "Topher" Maraffi, whose research intersects art and science by leveraging the latest digital tools to create the popular arts of our times. Professor Maraffi reveals how the emerging technologies of augmented reality are changing the way we interface with our environments and describes projects as varied as the virtual reenactment of historical sites like 19th century freedmen towns to simulations contributing to the development of self-driving automobiles.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Production, Chris "Topher" Maraffi, whose research intersects art and science by leveraging the latest digital tools to create the popular arts of our times. Professor Maraffi reveals how the emerging technologies of augmented reality are changing the way we interface with our environments and describes projects as varied as the virtual reenactment of historical sites like 19th century freedmen towns to simulations contributing to the development of self-driving automobiles.
Named one of the 10 August Books You Should Read Right Now, by O The Oprah Magazine, Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of English, Papatya Bucak, about her new book of prize-winning short stories, The Trojan Museum and Other Stories, published by W.W. Norton in August 2019. Click here to purchase at Amazon.
Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Associate Professor of English, Papatya Bucak, about her new book of prize-winning short stories, The Trojan Museum and Other Stories, published by W.W. Norton in August 2019. Click here to purchase at Amazon.