Center Hosts Panel on Graduate School in the Humanities
One question all humanities students have heard from friends, family, and complete strangers after discussing their major is, “What are you planning to do with that?” While some students have clear plans for life after college, others are left fumbling for answers. On January 24, 2022 the Center for Humanities hosted a panel to discuss […]
Conversation with Mariah Gruner, PhD Candidate, American & New England Studies
Interview with Mariah Gruner Dissertation Project: “‘…Has Ever Been the Appropriate Occupation of Woman’: Crafting Femininity in American Women’s Decorative Needlework, 1820 to 1920” At what stage was your dissertation in March 2020? What were your plans at that time? When the pandemic struck, I had already completed a substantial amount of my background research and […]
Conversation with Emily Gowen, PhD Candidate, English
Interview with Emily Gowen Dissertation Project: “On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America” At what stage was your dissertation in March 2020? What were your plans at that time? For my dissertation project I study nineteenth-century American reprints, abridgments, adaptations, and graphic reimaginings of seventeenth and eighteenth century European […]
Conversation with Joanne Lafortune, MA Candidate, African American Studies Program
Interview with Joanne Lafortune What was life like for you prior to March 2020? I teach upper and middle school English literature at the Wheeler school in Providence, Rhode Island. As well as teaching English, I am also involved in attempting to diversify and decolonize all aspects of our school curriculum. One of the ways […]
Conversation with Kira Ganga Kieffer, PhD Candidate, Religion
Interview with Kira Ganga Kieffer Dissertation Project: “Pure Bodies, Sacred Souls: Religion and Vaccine Skepticism in Modern American History” How did you arrive at such an opportune research project? How did you manage to reverse the usual trajectory by securing a book deal prior to completing the dissertation? When the pandemic struck, I had already […]
Conversation with Merve Rumeysa Tapinç, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Interview with Merve Rumeysa Tapinç Dissertation Project: “The Duty of Self-Knowledge and Moral Responsibility for Our Beliefs and Commitments” What is the subject of your research? My research focuses on the epistemic and moral problem of self-knowledge. For instance, the problem of implicit bias—its harmful effects on others—presents us with both a moral and an […]
Conversation with Hyunjin Cho, PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture
Interview with Hyunjin Cho Dissertation Project: “Illustrated Manuscripts of Firdausi’s Shahnama in Nineteenth-Century Iran” What is the subject of your dissertation? My general area of research is Islamic art with a specialization in the arts of the book in 19th-century Iran. In my dissertation, I focus on one literary text, an epic poem called the […]