Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer was recently invited to the leadership of several organizations, including the Honorary Committee for the establishment of the Social Museum of Jewish History and Heritage of Kielce in Poland, the Board of Directors of the Genocide Awareness Week at Arizona State University, and the “Content Advisory Group” of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society’s Hilton Family Holocaust Education Center to assist… Read more
Comparative Study of Religions
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Faculty News: CCS Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Björn Krondorfer featured in The NAU Review on Sept. 19, 2023
Regents’ professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer wrote a reflection on his forty years in the U.S. for The NAU Review after moving from Germany in 1983. Read the article here.
Dr. Björn Krondorfer studies religion, gender and culture and post-Holocaust and reconciliation studies; his scholarship helped define the field of critical men’s studies in religions. He is the author… Read more
Upcoming talk by Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Pedro J. Gonzalez Corona, “Echoes of Racial Fantasies: The Politics of Mexican Antisemitism” on Thursday Sept. 28, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Join the Martin-Springer Institute for a talk by Dr. Pedro J. Gonzalez Corona, the 2023-2024 MSI Postdoctoral Scholar. He will present his inaugural lecture, “Echoes of Racial Fantasies: The Politics of Mexican Antisemitism” on Thursday Sept. 28, 2023 at 7 p.m. in the Liberal Arts building, room 120. His current research focuses on Mexican antisemitism and the phenomenon of forced disappearances. He will also teach a course on this topic in… Read more
New website features work by CCS faculty and students
Congratulations to the Martin-Springer Institute on the completion of their digital exhibition “Stories of the Spanish Civil War.” The project featured student interns from across campus and several from CCS major and minor programs under the direction of CCS Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and director of the Martin-Sprinter Institute Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer.
About the exhibit:
What can a simple fan tell us about war? Explore with us the Spanish Civil War through a fan signed in 1938 by… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Megan Ashcraft on her acceptance to grad school!
Megan graduated from CCS in 2018 with a B.A. in Comparative Cultural Studies with an emphasis in the Comparative Study of Religions and a minor in History. Megan will attend graduate study for a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Arizona this fall. Congratulations Megan!
