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.
On college campuses, Assistant Professor Kate Lockwood Harris is raising the conversation about sexual assault and helping institutions understand it’s not as simple as…
Many Ojibwe people believe in the healing power of music and dance. American studies and American Indian studies professor Brenda Child reveals how an influenza epidemic in…
Geography assistant professor Eric Shook takes an untraditional approach to geography and explores the world through geospatial computing. His work is leading to better ways…
Ananya Chatterjea dedicates her work to liberation and justice. Through her dance and research, she strives to encourage new ways of thinking and new ways of seeing the world.
After retirement, James Citti returned to school to take classes at the University of Minnesota. Moved by the stories of the students he met, he decided it was time to do…
To Alysha Alloway (master of geographic information science ’19), a map can explore how the homeless interact with transit in the Twin Cities, and how a community can create a…
Josef Woldense has been able to construct a picture of the administration of 20th-century Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie to provide a close analysis of ways autocrats keep…
Chris Federico, director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology, weighs in on the differences in Trump's response to the 2014 Ebola breakout in comparison to his…
Dr. Lena Norrman, a senior lecturer in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, shares her insight on how early settlers survived their first Minnesota winters.