Nuestra América | Our America
2022-2023 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
Hosted by the Department of Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies
"The United States in Nuestra América: Spanish, An American Language."
Rosina Lozano
Associate Professor of History, Princeton University
November 15, 6 p.m. | Humanities Commons
Humanities Fellows Program Applications Due October 7
The Humanities Fellows Program is a selective, close-knit, and interdisciplinary community of students and scholars investigating critical and contemporary questions about human experience from diverse perspectives. Sophomores excited about humanities fields have the opportunity to explore their interests while developing skills that matter in and out of the classroom and preparing to live productive and purposeful lives. In 2023-2024 our focus will be on Power and Enchantment.
The program combines an interdisciplinary humanities seminar and field experience with the opportunity to apply for mentored summer research and continued professional mentorship, career development and community.
Humanities: Repair & Recovery Event
The Productivity Imperative in a Global Pandemic.
Melissa Gregg
Senior Principal Engineer for Sustainability and User Experience at Intel
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 5 p.m. | Humanities Commons (220)
This talk draws on multiple studies of technology users in lockdown and previous research on productivity to understand the condition of professional intimacy during and after COVID-19. In doing so, it reflects on the psychological, physical, and environmental burdens embedded in the idea of "work from anywhere." What lessons have been learned about the workplace from this once in a century experience?
A&S in the News
The pandemic led to new thinking about how museums can help students experience in-person, interdisciplinary learning.
Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, co-founder of the French Film Festival in Richmond, is recognized for her cultural contributions.
This article features geography professor Stephanie Spera.
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Faculty Expertise
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In A&S, our faculty are experts on the cutting edge of their fields. While they could work in some of the top research institutions in the world, our faculty chose Richmond because they believe in educating tomorrow's leaders and are passionate about mentoring and sharing their knowledge with students.
A&S Faculty Highlights
Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled, "Leveraging Machine Learning to Harness Non-Parabolic Effects in Semiconductor Heterostructures," in Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. This work was created in collaboration with the University Of Alfenas in Brazil.
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Brandon Ng, visiting assistant professor of psychology, published the article, "Over-Rating Pain is Overrated: A Fundamental Self-Other Bias in Pain Reporting Behavior" in The Journal of Pain.
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Karen Puccia Kochel, associate professor of psychology, published the article, "Empirically Derived Psychological Profiles of College Students: Differential associations with COVID-19 Impact and Social Adjustment" in Emerging Adulthood.
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Jack Singal, associate professor of physics, delivered a public talk "All the Light in the Universe” covering the James Webb Space Telescope and modern astrophysics as part of the Profs & Pints lecture series.
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Karen Puccia Kochel, associate professor of psychology, published the chapter, "Can Friends also be Foes?" in the book, Peer Relationships in Classroom Management.
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Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, published the book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century with the University of Virginia Press.
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Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, was awarded the Walker Cowen Prize for outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies for his book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century.
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Maruti Mishra, Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, was selected as a board member for the Vision Science Student Postdoc Advisory Committee, part of the Annual Vision Science Society meeting.
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