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Pterodáctilo

February 23, 2018 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Graduate students often wonder how their work fits into their lives outside the university. We publish and present papers with the hope that they contribute significantly to our fields. But for many scholars, public engagement in the form of podcasts, blog posts, youtube channels, and creative writing have helped us feel that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: creative writing, graduate students, latin american studies, literature, portuguese, Public Scholarship, spanish

Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast

February 14, 2018 by Zoya Brumberg

How often do you stop and wonder how paper money and checking accounts became a part of our daily life? Can you pinpoint the moment in time when investing in the stock market became an activity available to ordinary citizens? How and why did the United States government become involved in funding railroads, paved roads, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: american studies, betsy beasley, david stein, economic history, economics, History, history of capitalism, Podcast, public humanities, Public Scholarship

American Pulse Project

December 7, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg How will the moment of time in which you live be remembered? Will Occupy Wall Street or the anti-Trump movement be written into history as the 1968 of the 21st century? Are our lives a turning point in the political, economic, or social conditions of the modern world? For Rutgers University History […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: american history, current events, History, political science, public history, Public Scholarship, rutgers university, sociology, united states, united states history

Front Porch Gatherings

December 4, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg East Austin has only recently become home to craft cocktail bars, yoga studios, high-end vintage clothing stores, art house movie theaters, and food trucks lauded by the New York Times dining section. For someone new to Austin, unfamiliar with its complex history, it is difficult to imagine that these neighborhoods were intentionally […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: community engagement, community outreach, diversity, Public Scholarship

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

October 16, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: brooklyn institute, communism, continuing education, marxism, Philosophy, public history, Public Scholarship, school, Teaching

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