In one of the graduate-level courses Professor Nichola Lowe teaches, one starts with a real-life issue to solve: how to provide education for a manufacturing worker named Maddie. Lowe uses the story from an Atlantic essay that discusses labor to prime her students to think outside typical paths to education that may not be possible for working-class workers.

In one of the graduate-level courses Professor Nichola Lowe teaches, one starts with a real-life issue to solve: how to provide education for a manufacturing worker named Maddie. Lowe uses the story from an Atlantic essay that discusses labor to … Read more

Stephanie Schrader, PhD, delivers the 22nd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art. In this special episode, she reveals the inspiration for this lecture and gives a preview of what appropriation and exotification might mean in history in the context of trade and religion in Europe and Asia.

The way he tells it, Kenneth Janken is not a multi-tasker. “I don’t work well when I try to juggle two major research projects,” says Janken, UNC professor in the departments  of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, as well as … Read more

Stephanie Schrader, PhD, delivered the 22nd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled “Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art.” Schrader reveals the inspiration for this lecture and gives a preview of what appropriation and … Read more

What began as an idea linking language, art, and psychological development quickly became a project at a local museum. A $25,000 grant for radical interdisciplinary research can do that.

IAH Fellow and Associate Professor of Linguistics Misha Becker and Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Kristen Lindquist, who is also director of the Carolina Affective Science Lab, are currently working on their project, Children’s Development of Verbal and Perceptual Correlates of … Read more