Sentences with phrase «american cultural studies»

Panel discussion on Performance Art, featuring Kate Gilmore» 97, Stamatina Gregory, curator and art historian, and Associate Dean, Cooper Union, and Myron Beasley, Associate Professor, African American and American Cultural Studies, moderated by Dan Mills, director.

Rodríguez Bencomo is a doctoral candidate in the Latin American Cultural Studies program at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador) and holds a master's degree in Cultural Studies with a specialty in Cultural Politics from the same department (2010).

Not exact matches

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

Cultural Studies of the sort exhibited by Institutions of Modernism is all the rage in American and English universities (Rainey teaches at the University of York in England).

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World CrStudy of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World CrStudy of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crstudy of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

CNN: Study: People tweet more about church than beer In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

Although American society in terms of social and economic variables are present in Dr. Bellah's writing here, his approach is rather a study and analysis of cultural meaning.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

Hence the «Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association» include such works as Studies in Chinese Thought (Memoir No. 75), Studies in Islamic Cultural History (Memoir No. 76), Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition (Memoir No. 81), and Village India (Memoir No. 83).

The study of American society (that is, sociology) precedes and serves as a basis of comparison with other societies (this is cultural or social anthropology).

Matthew Bowman, an editor at a Mormon studies journal called Dialogue, says Romney appears to embody the Mormon retrenchment of the 1960s and 1970s, when the LDS church defined itself largely in opposition to the broader American culture, which was seeing cultural upheaval and the sexual revolution.

SoFAB, home to several collections, among them the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, The Museum of the American Cocktail (MOTAC), the John & Bonnie Boyd Hospitality & Culinary Library, and Pacific Food and Beverage is growing into the nation's most comprehensive cultural institution studying food and drink.

NatFAB, home to the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, The Museum of the American Cocktail (MOTAC), Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, the John & Bonnie Boyd Hospitality & Culinary Library, and SoFAB Media, is among the nation's most comprehensive cultural institutions studying food and drink.

Equally inspired by the culture there, she returned to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to complete her undergraduate degree in Latin American Social and Cultural Studies in 2005.

Outside of Kesem, I study political science with a special interest in education, dance on the ballroom team, and coordinate events for the Asian American Cultural Center.

Judt criticizes American foreign policy, free markets, fellow academics, Israel, journalists, and trends within the academic study of history (e.g., cultural studies are «jejune and callow»).

He is fearless about pushing his students to «think about the way you've been trained to think» and works tirelessly to ensure students understand all aspects of cultural relevance in African American studies.»

Now some studies have shown that the differences are likely cultural: the Müller - Lyer visual illusion, which shows two lines of equal length where one is often perceived, at least by American undergrads, as longer than the other, is actually not an illusion at all for the San foragers of the Kalahari.

Vergun and colleagues explained that many Native Americans didn't see the cultural relevance of studying STEM.

But this quite obvious connection between eating disorders and cultural expectations surrounding femininity is woefully neglected in much treatment, said lead researcher Dr Su Holmes, a reader in UEA's School of Art, Media and American Studies.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

To see if a president's speeches reflect egotism in American society at large, the team compared its results to studies of egotism in other cultural products, such as 20th - century books and songs.

There was a nine - year - long legal battle to decide whether the remains could be studied at all, or whether cultural ties meant that they should be passed to Native Americans for reburial.

This study opens the door for future research to better understand why Asian Americans have better CSM than non-Hispanic whites, and to determine whether and to what extent genetic and / or cultural factors are involved.

Multiple research studies have found that many African Americans have a cultural preference for having a larger body size, particularly for women.

He received his M.A. in Native American Studies, focusing on Native American exploitation in early cinema and his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma.

The conference, sponsored by The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Provost Office at Harvard University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Study, attracted 96 artists, educators, and researchers, who identified and exchanged best photography practices to promote children agencies and civic participation.

For starters, a Center for American Progress study titled America's Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color reports that minority teachers have higher expectations of minority students, provide culturally relevant teaching, develop trusting relationships with students, confront issues of racism through teaching, and become advocates and cultural brokers.

For 30 years I have been studying cultural expectations for what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years later.

This bill, supported in testimony by the California Teachers Association, if passed, would «require instruction (emphasis mine) in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and other ethnic and cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.»

The new American students also went into every social studies class in their high school to raise awareness about cultural diversity, overcome stereotypes, and build empathy.

The «Building Biliteracy» teacher workshop was hosted by Boerum Hill School for International Studies in partnership with the American Association of Teachers of French and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

She earned her BA from Stanford University in Native American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, and her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in Culture, Communities, and Education.

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

Of Guatemalan - American descent, Benjamin witnessed the effects of transnational processes such as NAFTA, the drug war and deportations from both sides of the border, motivating him to join Americorps as a Community Health Instructor and to study political thinking and photography at Bard College before transferring and receiving his B.A in socio - cultural anthropology with an Honors Thesis at Columbia University.

Park, a Korean - American who spent time in Seoul on a Fulbright scholarship and has studied under the novelist Ha Jin, expertly details the cultural divides facing her heroine, adding another dimension to a tale that might otherwise seem too familiar.

While studying at AMAUTA Spanish School, you will be able to combine excellent, fun and self - paced Spanish courses with additional free cultural classes such as tango workshops, Argentine cooking, wine tasting and Latin American movie presentations - elements which make our Spanish school in Buenos Aires a distinct educational destination.

Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.

Changing Boundaries: Historic Maps of the U.S. - Mexico Border From the Collection of Simon Burrow (Sponsored by The Latin American Studies Program and the Cross Cultural Resource Centers) January 29 - February 26

From studies of the early Dutch colonial settlers to reports on contemporary art - market caprices, this new field of cultural history proves that our American taste for Dutch art stretches further back than Donna Tartt's trendy Pulitzer - winner or the cultural ubiquity of The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

Uri McMillan is a cultural historian and Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Departments of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Photo District News, Dear Dave, Shots, and Photographers International plus garnered grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, The Siskind Foundation, The American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies and the New York Foundation of the Arts.

2006 Estrecho Dudoso, TEOR / éTica, San José, Costa Rica, curated by Virginia Pérez Ratton and Tamara Díaz Bringas (Catalog) Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, (screening), Centre Culturel La Clef, Paris, France Estudio Abierto, Palacio de Correos, Buenos Aires, Argentina 10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida (Catalog) Manifesta 6 School, Nicosia, Cyprus, curated by Mai Abu ElDehab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel (Cancelled) Prevailing Climate, (screening), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak 3 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, curated by Antonio Arévalo (Catalog) Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York El Museo's 4th Bienal: The (S) Files, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Catalog) 4ème Festival international du Cinéma iranien en Exil, (Screening), Paris, France When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, organized by Andrea Geyer and Christian Rattemeyer Bzzzz, Fundacion Cu4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia, curated by Jaime Cerón Russia: Significant Other, Institute for Contemporary Art at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, curated by Olga Kopenkina Surveillance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda Moving Time, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, curated by Hwang Yu Jin, Jeeyun Kim, Inhee Iris Moon Featured Artist Projects, Center for Book Arts, New York

2005 - 2001 Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York 2005/6 Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA 2005 Workspace Program Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA 2004 Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York, USA 2001/02/03 Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photography, New York, USA 2001

1996 Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, African American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY Explorations in the City of Light: African - American Artists in Paris, 1915 - 1965, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Bearing Witness: Contemporary African American Women Artists, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; Tuskegee University Art Gallery, Tuskegee, AL

Her research is situated at the intersection of literary studies, studies of contemporary visual arts and aesthetics, and the study of leftist political and social movements, bringing together contemporary U.S. Latino / a and Latin American cultural production within a hemispheric framework.

Her sculptures and installations, which are informed by her extensive studies of Latin American, Caribbean and African art and religion, frequently explore themes of the African cultural diaspora and spirituality.

At the Crossroads: Black Males + Race, Place, & Identity with Instructor Derrick Lanois, VCU Department of African American Studies Monday, January 20, 6 p.m. Elegba Folklore Society's Cultural Center

1996 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Countee Cullen Art Collection from the Hampton University Museum, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro - American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX; California Afro - American Museum Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston, MA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Center for the Study of African American Life and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Woman's Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

Zhao Gang's insightful The Harlem School of Socialist Realism Study (2002)-- if you have the 46 minutes to stay with it — brings the cultural revolution to an American working - class kitchen.