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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.

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

�鶹��Ʒ��ƵDepartment 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 �鶹��Ʒ��ƵAssociate 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.”

�鶹��Ʒ��ƵDepartment 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.

Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America

FACULTY RESEARCH - VISUAL ARTS AND ART HISTORY FACULTY EMILY FENICHEL AND CAMILA AFANADOR-LLACH RECEIVE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT

May 11, 2020

Emily Fenichel and Camila Afanador-Llach, faculty in FAU’s Department of Visual Arts and Art History, recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $231,588.