College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Rabinovitch-Fox wrote a piece on the entertainment industry’s history of labor activism for the Washington Post: “‘Pins and Needles’ redux: Theater can propel solidarity and score wins for labor”

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Professor Rabinovitch-Fox spoke to The Daily about Barbie’s complicated relationship with feminism.

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Professor Sadowsky was quoted in a recent Psycom article about the history of bipolar disorder. Click to read “Bipolar Disorder: A History of Demons, Humors, and Stigma.”

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Professor Rabinovitch-Fox was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “The Summer of ‘Barbie’ Has Only Just Begun.” In the article, Rabinovitch-Fox weighs in on how the Greta Gerwig Barbie film is attempting to rebrand the Mattel doll.

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Professor John Grabowski and CWRU History student Sidney Negron were featured recently on WKYC Studios series Turning Point. In this article Grabowski and Negron discussed the history of the Cadillac Lounge, which opened in 1946 by a woman named Gloria Lenihan and served straight clients during the day and...

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Heather Burton, senior director for faculty and institutional diversity engaged in a one-on-one interview with Noël Voltz, assistant professor of history. The African American Alumni Association, in partnership with Case Western Reserve’s Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and African American Studies Minor, invited members of the university community...

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The Department of History and CWRU History Associates will welcome Manisha Sinha, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, for the biannual Ubbelohde Lecture Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom C

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Livestream link to the event: https://case.edu/livestream/s3 

 

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In Fast Company, an American business magazine, Ted Steinberg suggests that your neighbor’s picture perfect lawn might actually be painted grass. According to Steinberg, “Our desire for a blanket of green grass is a relatively new phenomenon.”

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Renee Sentilles, the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History, discussed in cleveland.com the historical roots of modern childcare debates, noting that the idea of providing a public structure of supervising and educating young children conflicts with two basic tenets of American culture: the ideas that individual families should solve...

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