News Archive
Images (l/r): Kelly J. Shannon; Book cover of “U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights” (2018);
Research Thursdays - Promoting Equity and Understanding of Diverse Cultures
June 25, 2020
Kelly J. Shannon, Associate Professor of History has been appointed the new director of FAU’s Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative (PJHR)
Images (l/r): Book cover of “Jewfish;” Andrew Furman
Research Thursdays - “Jewfish,” a new novel by English Professor Andrew Furman
June 18, 2020
This new novel shines a light on the environmental issues facing south Florida and the planet
Image (L/R): (book cover detail) “Unstable Masks Whiteness and American Superhero Comics,” edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, The Ohio State University Press, January 2020; Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins; Eric L. Berlatsky; (book cover detail) “Ms. Marvel’s America No Normal,” Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid, University of Mississippi Press, February 2020
Research Thursdays - Department of English faculty members have co-authored two articles on the intersection of superheroes and racial politics
June 11, 2020
The intersection of superheroes in comic books, racial politics, the politics of racial mixing and racial mixedness
Image: 2019 Summer Band Camp performance
Research Thursdays - ‘Keep the Music Playing!’ Initiative for Youth
June 04, 2020
The Department of Music received the Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.
Michael J. Horswell
Letter from the Dean - Moving Forward Together
June 02, 2020
We are witness this week to yet another brutal murder of an African American man by police officers, and the resulting protests of another pernicious virus in our society: systemic racism.
Images (l/r): Book cover of “The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence,” Oxford University Press; Marina Banchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy.
Research Thursdays - The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence
May 28, 2020
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that each of its faculty members has a book to be released or under contract to be completed this year.
Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant
FAU Department of Music is Finalist for Impact 100 Palm Beach County $100,000 Grant
May 21, 2020
FAU's Department of Music is one of two finalists for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant
Images (l/r): European Union Flag; La Pietra di Ca’Vendramin book cover; Ilaria Serra with Italian American writer Adriana Trigiani, whose novels are the topic of a forthcoming book chapter by Serra
Research Thursdays - Ilaria Serra (LLCL) Receives A Faculty Curriculum Development Grant For “European Movement: Films of Immigration”
May 21, 2020
Ilaria Serra, the 2020 FAU Associate Professor Scholar of the Year, recently received a faculty curriculum development grant from the EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University (FIU)
Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders, 1760-1830
Research Thursdays - Jason Sharples, Associate Professor of History, received the Peckham Long-Term Fellowship on Revolutionary America
May 14, 2020
The grant will support archival research for his project “Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders,1760-1830.”
Impact 100 Palm Beach County Grant
FAU Department of Music is Finalist for Impact 100 Palm Beach County $100,000 Grant
May 13, 2020
FAU's Department of Music is one of two finalists for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.