Celebrating 25 Years of Furthering Excellence in Faculty Research

The URI Center for the Humanities is thrilled to celebrate our 25th Anniversary by highlighting the rigorous scholarship a few of our Junior Faculty in the Humanities whose work we are honored to have supported in recent years. Join us for two exciting panels.

When: Thursday, April 4th, 2019  4:00pm-6:00pm. 

Where: The Hope Room. The Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center

Photo collage by URI Students Laird French and Sergio Perdiguer

 

Panel Composition

Panel One: Race and Representations  (Moderator: Travis Williams, Associate Professor of English) 

Christine Mok, Assistant Professor of English: “Impossible Stages: Asian American Poetics, Politics, and the Novel” 

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Associate Professor of French: Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France 

Iñaki Pérez, Assistant Professor of Spanish: “Study of Guillen de Castro’s Works: Establishing a Reliable Corpus and Thematic Analysis” 

 

Panel Two: Contested Spaces and Social Changes  (Moderator: Ron Onorato, Professor of Art and Architectural History)

David Faflik, Associate Professor of English: Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief 

Erik Loomis, Associate Professor of History: The Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present 

Julie Keller, Assistant Professor of Sociology: Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland 

Jessica Frazier, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, History, and Marine Affairs: “Equality, Development, and Peace; The Global Women’s Movement, 1970-2000”