Faculty Focus: Fall 2020
Stephanie Badde is the new Stibel Family Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology, Kasso Akochaye Okoudjou is a new professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Steve Cicala is a new assistant professor in the Department of Economics.
The Case of the Reappearing Art
With help from software, Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture, uncovers long-unseen fresco paintings in thousand-year-old Armenian churches.
How Does Art Change Our Perceptions of COVID-19?
Lessons from a Pandemic: The way the coronavirus is illustrated can influence how we feel about it, says Chantal Zakari, professor of the practice at SMFA at Tufts
Bookish: Author Susan Napier on the Beauty of Transience
In our series with writers on reading, the professor and author of “Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art” talks about books that inspired her
Building out a Department
The Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora welcomes two accomplished faculty members and looks ahead to a promising future.
Echoes of Hiroshima
Tufts faculty, including Hosea Hirata, professor of Japanese literature, and Susan Napier, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, discuss the effects of the atomic bomb, which are still felt in Japan and the world, 75 years later.
Another Look at Fall Academics at the School of Arts and Sciences and SMFA at Tufts
Faculty members are focused on incorporating racial justice efforts and virtual education tools into their fall classes
How Urban Planning Helped Create a Divided and Very Unequal Minneapolis
The laws governing housing, along with redlining, were part of the systemic efforts to maintain structural racism, Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in a piece originally published in the Conversation
Tufts professor raises $10,000 for bail bonds with musicology livestream
The Boston Globe highlights Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington's livestreamed fundraising lecture on Black music history and civil rights
Art’s Power of Persuasion
Historic protest posters still make an impact in course at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts