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No one’s a smoker, but everyone smokes: Recent trends in college smoking

Michael Berg, Prof., Psych., presents research on behavioral differences between those who do and do not identify as smokers and a discussion on campus smoking…

The first Latino disenfranchisement: race, ethnicity, and determining the boundaries of citizenship in the USA

Assoc. Prof. John Bezis-Selfa, Hist., explores Latinos struggles for citizenship and for voting rights during this period–and how their struggles inform our understanding of what…

Explaining Mansplaining

Assoc. Prof. John Partridge, Philosophy presents the next Lunch Talk on the harms of “mansplaining” as a “pre-emptive testimonial injustice” that objectifies and silences women.…

The politics of the headscarf in the United States

Aubrey Westfall, Assist. Prof., Pol. Sc., focuses her talk on the political behavior and membership of Muslim-American women and their implications for the American demos.…

Just where does local food live? Assessing farmers’ markets in the United States

Justin Schupp, Assistant Professor of Sociology presents the next Faculty Lunch Talk on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 in PDR. All are welcome to attend.

From monsters to mothers and multiculturalism: social education billboards and murals in Ethiopia

Leah Niederstadt, Assist. Prof. of Museum Studies explores ways in which age, class, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, and HIV/AIDS status have been visually represented in…

Collaborating to understand marital rape

Gabriela Torres, Assoc. Prof., Anthropology and Kersti Yllö, Prof. of Sociology look at how interdisciplinary partnerships enable the examination of how cultural, legal, public health, and…

A decade of collaboration in the theatre

Presented by Charlotte Meehan, Professor of English, and Stephanie Daniels, Associate Professor of Theatre on Thursday, April 14, 2016 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in…

Writing across, in and through the disciplines: what the research reveals

Presented by Lisa Lebduska, Professor of English on Wednesday, April 6th at 12:30 pm in PDR. All are welcome to attend.

Rhetoric and racism: using writing spaces to talk and think about race

Claudia Ward-de León, Emerson-Wheaton Writing Fellow presents the next Faculty Lunch Talk on Tues., March 29, 2016 at 12:30 pm in PDR. All are welcome.

Claude Shannon and the Magna Carta of the Information Age

Professor William Goldbloom Bloch, Mathematics, presents the next faculty lunch talk on Thursday, March 24th at 12:30 pm in PDR. All are welcome to attend.

Not too close together, nor too far apart: Negotiating research-community relations during anthropological fieldwork

Presented by Visiting Asst. Prof. of Anth. Mentor Mustafa, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 12:30 pm in PDR.