Historian Catherine E. Clark to head MIT Digital Humanities Program
Clark, Associate Professor of History and French Studies, will serve as Director of MIT Digital Humanities starting 1 June, 2022. She is a cultural historian of modern Europe, whose research is concerned with how the visual produces knowledge. As Director of MIT Digital Humanities, she follows Stephanie Frampton, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, who we thank for superb leadership of the program over the past two years.
Historian Lerna Ekmekçioğlu to head Womens & Gender Studies
Ekmekçioğlu, the McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and winner of the 2016 Levitan Teaching Award, will succeed Helen Elaine Lee, Professor of Writing, whose many contributions to MIT and MIT-WGS include co-founding the My Sister's Keeper Program. Warmest thanks Helen! Congratulations Lerna!
Ballet des Porcelaines at MIT. September 27 & 28
This FREE MIT EVENT is co-sponsored by the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), MIT History Section, MIT Global Languages, and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)
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Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Tanalís Padilla
This new book by Professor Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics.
Six humanities and arts faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2022
Congratulations Tristan Brown, assistant professor of history; Eric Goldberg, professor of history and Tanalís Padilla, professor of history.
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