Associate Professor of English Swarnavel Eswaran has found national and international success for his work as both writer and director of the groundbreaking film, Kattumaram (Catamaran), which has been accepted into several film festivals across the country and around the world. This past week, the preeminent Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, which is the largest and oldest LGBTQ film festival…
Academic Specialist Ellen Moll has been named Assistant Director of the Center of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (CISAH/IAH), effective July 1, 2019. Moll has served as an Academic Specialist in Teaching and Curriculum Development with IAH since July 2014. Her curriculum development interests include interdisciplinary and integrative pedagogy, faculty development, online pedagogy, general education, diversity in the curriculum,…
Kiersten F. “KF” Latham has been selected as the new Director of the Arts and Cultural Management and Museum Studies program for a term of five years, beginning on August 1, 2019. She also will serve as Associate Professor of Arts and Cultural Management. Latham comes to MSU from Kent State University where she was an Associate Professor in the School of…
Professor Kristie Dotson has been appointed Interim Chair of the African American and African Studies (AAAS) program, effective July 1, 2019. Since 2008, Dotson has served as a member of the Department of Philosophy faculty at Michigan State University. She led the AAAS Vision Process, which brought interested faculty together to imagine and construct a new Department of African American and African…
A one-of-a-kind resource, developed by researchers at Michigan State University and The Ohio State University, is breaking new ground in the area of religious studies by offering scholars and the public alike a new way to think about and explore the diversity of American religious life. The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP) website, which launched last month, challenges scholars, educators, students,…
Today, the MSU Board of Trustees selected Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., as Michigan State’s 21st President. President-designee Stanley will officially begin his term as MSU’s President on Aug. 1, 2019. Dr. Stanley has served as President of Stony Brook University since 2009 and has nearly 15 years of higher education leadership experience.
Michigan State University students, faculty, and researchers are the creators and driving force behind a new exhibit and one-of-a-kind sculpture now on display at the Detroit Zoo. The “Snares to Wares Initiative: Capacity for Change” exhibition opened May 8 in the Detroit Zoo’s Wildlife Interpretive Gallery and will be available for viewing until March 2020. The centerpiece of the exhibit is…
The College of Arts & Letters celebrated its outstanding faculty for their achievements in leadership and teaching at the Faculty Meeting and Awards Presentation on May 6 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. During this annual event, two awards – the Faculty Leadership Award and the Fixed-Term Faculty and Academic Specialist Leadership in Excellence Award – were presented. Faculty…
Dr. Cara Cilano has been appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the College of Arts & Letters, effective July 1, 2019. Cilano has served as Chair of MSU’s Department of English since July 1, 2016. She also is a Big Ten Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2018-19), an intensive program that develops the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who…
Episode seven of season three of the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast is out! In this episode, Dean Christopher P. Long discusses why language changes over time with Suzanne Wagner, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Linguistics program in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. She is also Core Faculty member at the Center for Gender in…
