We explore questions of the moment—the liberal arts are truly the front page of the newspaper—and enduring questions that help us to understand the present and the past and to anticipate the future.
An assistant professor in the Department of English, Megan Finch reads James Baldwin “to think rather than to substitute thought.” What follows is extracted from her recent…
Last year, the WHO characterized misinformation as an "infodemic," its pervasiveness only second to coronavirus. University of Minnesota experts, like Associate Professor…
Selected by Attorney General Keith Ellison to serve on the Advisory Task Force on Expanding the Economic Security of Women are Brittany Lewis (PhD '15, feminist studies)…
Elise Armani (BFA ’17) discusses her path from Minneapolis to New York, what's next on her to-do list, and the importance of mentors along the way to discovering your passion.
The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law has produced a special report and analysis of media law issues arising from the extraordinary assault on the US Capitol…
“Thinsplaining,” a now-common term, refers to the situation in which a person who has never struggled with weight still assumes they are qualified to give advice or pass…
Faculty and students throughout the department may have seen Mark Stellmack’s, fun Converse. Stellmack, PhD, is a teaching professor in the Department of Psychology at the…
Congratulations to Christopher Federico, PhD, professor in the Departments of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota, for his recent appointment as a…
Congratulations to Robert F. Krueger, PhD, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, for being named one of Clarivate Web of Science’s Highly Cited Researchers 2020.