At this year’s College of Arts and Letters “CAL in Action” event, Comparative Cultural Studies was well-represented by three teams from the department! Each team demonstrated CCS’s dedication to not only community engagement and interdisciplinarity, but also projects that bring together faculty and students beyond the classroom. The CCS presentations and tables are listed below.
The James J. Hanks Repeat Photography Storymap: James J. and Dorothy Hanks Endowed scholars Laura Barclay and Ben Osborn; Project Supervisors are Professors Becky Pratt-Sturges (of CCS) and Mark Manone (Geography) and Peter Runge (Director of Special Collections and Archives)
Martin-Springer Institute-in-Action: MSI highlighted three projects, The Power of Blood: Mexico’s Casta Paintings, Disappeared: Portraits of Absence, and Through the Eyes of Youth: Life & Death in the Bedzin Ghetto. Faculty: Bjorn Krondorfer (CCS, MSI), Pedro Gonzalez Corona (CCS), & Karl Krotke-Crandall; students: Helen Smith, Rogelio Apodaca Zenil, Henry Petterson, Abberly Pires, Alton Patrick, and Elizabeth Stipe.
The Public Humanities and the San Francisco Peaks: Professors Kent Linthicum (CCS) and Katrina Maggiulli (CCS) and students Lucy Harris (Sustainability Studies), Circierra Franko (CCS), and Alex Williams (CCS). 