<\/a>Erik Loomis<\/strong> (History) \u201cThe Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present\u201d is\u00a0an exploration of the rapidly transforming Pacific Northwest over the past half-century.\u00a0This book documents this transformation by exploring key points of conflict in the Northwest\u2019s recent history. It starts by looking at the politics of natural resource development and rising environmentalismin the 1960s and closes with an epilogue that juxtaposes the hit television show Portlandia\u00a0<\/em>on one hand with the rural anger that led to the recent Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation on the other hand.<\/p>\n <\/a>Marcus Nevius<\/strong> (History) \u201c\u2018city of refuge\u2019: Petit Marronage and Slave Economy in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1790-1860\u201d\u00a0<\/em>is a history of whites and blacks in Southside Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It is designed for an audience interested in the latest knowledge of American slavery generally, and for an audience interested in the histories of African Americans, or abolitionism, and of slave labor specifically. Lars Erikson<\/strong>, (French)\u00a0French for Engineering<\/em> is a textbook\u00a0under contract with Routledge to be published in April 2018.\u00a0The aim of the textbook is to develop students’ abilities to communicate in French their STEM knowledge.\u00a0The textbook teaches no engineering, but rather teaches students how to write effectively, communicate effectively, and think\u00a0critically about engineering and issues related to this field. Molly Hall<\/strong> (English)\u00a0\u201cWriting Home from World War I: The Dark Pastorals of the British Modernist Novel”\u00a0aims to address connections between warfare and ecology from 1890 to 1939\u2014 a period of simultaneous increase in ecological awareness and unrestrained resource depletion,\u00a0discussing what literature \u2014 a dominant cultural object in the modernist period \u2014 can tell us about this mutual acceleration.<\/p>\n Catherine Winters<\/strong> (English) “Giving Voice” is a public humanities project which will combine physical place at the University of Rhode Island with the 2013 novel The Lowland<\/em> by Jhumpa Lahiri in order to show the perspective of an \u00e9migr\u00e9e from India joining her graduate-student husband at URI. This combination will encourage empathy with the diverse\u00a0experiences across our campus,\u00a0a\u00a0reconsideration of the comfort of the familiar,\u00a0and a physical connection with the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty Research Erik Loomis (History) \u201cThe Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present\u201d is\u00a0an exploration of the rapidly transforming Pacific Northwest over the past half-century.\u00a0This book documents this transformation by exploring key points of conflict in the Northwest\u2019s recent history. It starts by looking at the politics of natural resource development and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSubvention<\/h2>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nGraduate Research<\/h2>\n