When the final episode of ‘Derry Girls,’ set in late 1990s Northern Ireland, dropped last fall, it presaged an important milestone – the inevitable remembering the Good Friday Agreement referendum, sparked by its upcoming 25th anniversary. Irish literature PhD candidate Ian Clark walks us through the series’ complicated relationship with the Troubles and what it says about how
With funding from a RDE Cross-Training Grant, migration studies scholar Tabea LInhard returned to the classroom, this time in a student’s seat, to bolster her understanding of immigration law and its impact on the populations she studies.
Every March, humanities scholars and practitioners have the opportunity to talk directly to the congressional offices that that decide how much of the federal budget supports programs such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Education’s international education programs. Laura Perry, assistant director for research and public engagement in the
Sixty years after its fight for independence from France, Algeria maintains a low profile in the Western world. Graduate Student Fellow Lacy Murphy (Art History and Archaeology) takes a close look at French designer Henry Dormoy’s 1930 poster that celebrated the centennial anniversary of the conquest of Algeria to offer an explanation of the country’s skepticism of the West.