In a reply to to Mahmood Mamdani’s response to her review of his book, Sharma says the world is not comprised of discrete, disconnected territories but of people brought together through the shared space of empire(s).
Kelly Mulholland is among 10 doctoral students awarded dissertation prizes for 2020 and 2021. Mulholland, shown here being hooded by Louis Rossi, dean of the Graduate College, and her adviser Calvin Keeler, interim dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, received the Interdisciplinary Research Prize for her work developing tools and techniques to identify bacteria, viruses and fungi found in a chickenâs respiratory tract.
Dissertation scholars shine
UD doctoral students honored for work in preservation studies, engineering, chemistry, psychology and more
The University of Delaware recognized 10 doctoral students from the graduating classes of 2020 and 2021 with dissertation prizes for outstanding work in their field of study. The awards were announced during the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony held Thursday, May 27, 2021, on UDâs Newark campus.
Dubliners are learning that the front entrance to Trinity, and many other architectural landmarks, were built with money from tobacco and other slave-related revenues. There have been calls to replace a statue of John Mitchel, a nationalist hero who supported US slavery, and a plaque to Major Richard Dowling, a Galway-born officer in the Confederate army. Dublin’s Shelbourne hotel removed four statues believed to depict slaves, only to reinstate them when the figures were revealed to not be slaves.
It is all part of a wider reckoning sparked by Ireland’s increasingly diverse population, the BLM movement and new books – academic and fiction – about historical figures.