2013 - Our Faculty and Students in the News
2013 - Our Faculty and Students in the News
Mozersky and Mark elected to Phi Beta Kappa
The Department proudly congratulates Sara Mozersky and Raffi Mark on their election to Phi Beta Kappa Society, the prestigious national academic honor society.
Prof. Michael Rockland Interviewed on NPR
Prof. Michael Rockland on NPR on his new book, An American Diplomat in Franco Spain (Cape and Islands NPR Station)
http://capeandislands.org/post/american-diplomat-franco-spain
Interview with Star Ledger:
Prof. Nicole Fleetwood Receives 2012 Lora Romero First Publication Prize
Professor Nicole Fleetwood receives the 2012 Lora Romero First Publication Prize at the American Studies Association Conference 2012 convened in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Read more about her most recent work on Prison Art here.
The following is the selection committee's prize citation:
The American Studies Association has awarded the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Nicole R. Fleetwood's Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Troubling Vision is a path-breaking book that examines the problem of seeing blackness--the simultaneous hyper-visibility and invisibility of African Americans--in US visual culture in the last half century. Weaving together critical modes and methodologies from performance studies, art history, critical race studies, visual culture analysis, and gender theory, Fleetwood expands Du Bois's idea of double vision into a broad questioning of whether "representation itself will resolve the problem of the black body in the field of vision." With skilled attention to historical contexts, documentary practices, and media forms, she takes up the works of a broad variety of cultural producers, from photographers and playwrights to musicians and visual artists and examines black spectatorship as well as black spectacle. In chapters on the trope of "non-iconicity" in the photographs of Charles (Teenie) Harris, the "visible seams" in the digital images of the artist Fatimah Tuggar, and a coda on the un-dead Michael Jackson, Fleetwood's close analyses soar. Troubling Vision is a beautifully written, original, and important addition to the field of American Studies.
Prof. Lou Masur writes in Slate Magazine
Prof. Lou Masur writes in Slate Magazine on Spielberg's Lincoln: "How Great an Emancipator? Does Lincoln get too much credit for freeing the slaves—or not enough?" Click here for the article at slate.com.Prof. Lou Masur appears in the New York Times online opinion page (January 1, 2013):
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/how-many-slaves-work-for-you.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
"How Great an Emancipator? Does Lincoln get too much credit for freeing the slaves—or not enough?" (Slate)
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2012/11/lincoln_and_slavery_does_steven_spielberg_s_movie_tell_the_whole_story.html
Prof. Lou Masur wins book prize
Lincoln's Hundred Days by Prof. Lou Masur wins the annual Abraham Lincoln Institute book prize. The Institute is located in Washington and is well-known for advancing scholarship on Lincoln and his era. Prof. Masur receives the award in Washington in March. http://www.lincoln-institute.org/
