This prestigious award recognizes outstanding faculty who exemplify the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through their excellent teaching, leadership, social justice and community building. These faculty make a positive impact within the classroom and in the greater NYU community. Congratulations to Professor Khan on this honorable achievement!
The Center for Religion and Media is pleased to announce a new grant opportunity for post-doctoral fellows. The grant is in relation to a new project entitled Religious Stakes in Digital Times: Scholars and Journalists in conversation will initiate new work on the role of religion in international affairs. Carrying forward an evolving sense of what “international” means, the grant will foster new research, writing, and exchange on the role of religion in the world today. As Professor Angela Zito, co-director of the Center for Religion and Media (CRM) and principle investigator on the grant, explains, “We understand international to mean something that comprises both us and them, inextricably linked by, and overflowing beyond, borders that are increasingly blurred through digital instantaneous communication. Religious experience, like so many other forms of experience in a digitally linked world, travels fast, and travels globally.”
Read more about the new grant in this press release.
Natasha Raheja‘s C&M documentary Cast in India was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival! Congrats Natasha!
Congratulations to Jane Anderson on being awarded an NEH grant from the Division of Preservation and Access (Research and Development). The $290,000 grant provides 3 years of funding for Local Contexts 2.0: Implementing the Traditional Knowledge Labels.
The project involves the development of a set of protocols, standards, tools, and resources relating to digital curation and stewardship of indigenous cultural heritage that would assist non-Native collecting institutions and local Native American communities to enhance access and management of knowledge about humanities collections.
From Indian Country Media: “Earlier this month, the Native American and Indigenous Students’ Group (NAISG) at New York University, guided by many mentors, hosted several days of Native American films and filmmakers to highlight indigenous storytelling. It was packed house a few weeks ago at the second annual Native American and Indigenous Film Festival. The event opened with the group’s Vice President, Andrew Begay, a junior in the College of Arts and Science studying French and Linguistics…[The Festival] was then followed by the New York City premiere of Angelo Baca’s feature documentary film, Into America: The Ancestor’s Land, which depicted the story of Angelo Baca’s grandmother, Helen Yellowman, through her own reflections and words in the Navajo language as they road tripped back to their rightful and ancestral home. Both films were applauded for their beauty, distinct from one another, yet similar in that they told intricate and compelling stories.”
Congratulations to Angelo, one of Department’s Ph.D candidates, for this amazing achievement!
You can read more about the Festival here.
You can read more about Angelo’s current research on his Departmental profile.
Co-directed by the George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study
of Hominid Paleobiology and the National Museums of Kenya, the Koobi Fora
Field is a four-credit collaborative paleoanthropological research and trainning
program in Northern Kenya. e program includes daily hands-on work, a series
of lectures, specialized laboratory exercises, and one-on-training with senior
researchers and instructors. rough this combination of learning opportunities in
a remote and remarkable “classroom” students receive an intense and unforgettable
research experience.
Applications — consisting of a transcript, letter of recommendation, and statement, as well as the supplementary application — are due by December 18th 2015.
For complete information, please download the attached informational flyer.
If you have any questions, please contact David Braun at david_braun@gwu.edu.
Doctoral student Eli Dollarhide has been awarded a National Geographic Young Explorer’s grant to conduct archaeological fieldwork at early Bronze Age sites in Oman. Congratulations, Eli! You can read more about Eli and his research, here.
Cast in India Trailer from Natasha Raheja on Vimeo.
Cast in India, a film about the labor production behind New York City’s iconic and ubiquitous manhole covers, was highlighted in New York City culture blog Gothamist! Congratulations to director Natasha Raheja, a Doctoral Student in the Culture and Media Program, for this exposure! Read the article here.
