On March 21, Assistant Teaching Professor of Environmental Humanities Dr. Katrina Maggiulli was an invited speaker at the Race, History, and Rock Creek: Invasive Rhetoric panel, hosted by the Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service (Washington, D.C.), which brought together science communication scholars… Read more
Faculty Research
Faculty news: Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick at Coconino Center for the Arts
CCS Assistant Professor of Humanities and Latin American Studies Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick recently presented with Chilean artist Dr. Francisco González Castro for the opening of the exhibit “FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ CASTRO: BODIES, LIMITS & TRANSGRESSIONS” at the Coconino Center for the Arts on April 15, 2024. The presentation discussed the artist’s philosophy, which confronts the body, people who reject the body, and how the body is approached as subject and identity in his creative practice that utilizes video, performance… Read more
MSI exhibit featured on JackCentral and in the Arizona Daily Sun
The Martin-Springer Institute exhibit “Disappearance: Portraits of Absence” was recently featured on JackCentral and in the Arizona Daily Sun. CCS majors and minors contributed to the research and curation of the exhibit under the supervision and guidance of CCS faculty Regents’ Professor Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer and Martin-Springer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Pedro Gonzales Corona.
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CCS at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7
CCS students and faculty represented the department at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7, 2024! Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges, Dr. Diana Coleman, and Dr. Gioia Woods set up and worked our table filled with swag and flyers with CCS majors Joce Dolezal and Ella Conner as well as CCS intern Colin Grosvenor. Dr. Woods also moderated the featured panel, Entangled Spaces: Past, Present, & Future with the CAL 2023-2024 Arts & Humanities Fellows, which included CCS Assistant Teaching… Read more
The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund Call for Proposals
The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund supports Public Humanities programming that advances the professional development of students and is community focused. Thanks to a generous grant from past NAU president Dr. Clara Lovett (1993-2001), NAU’s Department of Comparative Cultural Studies will award two annual grants to teams comprised of NAU faculty and students who are engaged in community-based Public Humanities projects. Two grants for up to $2000 each will be awarded each year. The deadline for submission… Read more
Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer at Borders/Borderland and the Holocaust at UT in February
Dr. Björn Krondorfer, Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute, was awarded the invitation to participate in a 2-day seminar on “Borders/Borderlands and the Holocaust” at the University of Texas, Austin (February 18-19, 2024). Regionally organized by experts from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M/San Antonio, it was supported by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.