Judith Cusack, a history major and president of Spartans for Special Olympics, was recently featured in the Spartan Showcase. Read more about Cusack here.
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Peter Shulman, an associate professor of History at Case Western, weighed in on the truthfulness of bridges being purposefully constructed to be too low to allow for buses carrying people of color to access to predominantly white areas. Read more here.
Case Western Professor Jonathan Sadowsky's book, The Empire of Depression, was extensively referenced in an article published in the New York Review of Books concerning Robert Burton's Anatomy of Depression. Read more here.
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a teacher of modern American history, as well as women's and gender history in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote a Washington Post article detailing the history of dress codes in schools, and wonders why masks aren't enforced the same way that clothes are. Read her...
To encourage innovation and scholarship, CWRU's Social Justice Institute has established a Social Justice Fellowship Program that, through grants, funds faculty and student activities that advance social justice work, from humanistic inquiry to action research.
Kimberly Stahler's dissertation research examines social justice activism in Cleveland from 1960 to 1975, and...
When is sorrow a sickness? Why do so many people seem to suffer from depression today? Do all cultures suffer from depression? These are a few of the questions we will discuss tonight when we talk with JONATHAN SADOWSKY. He is a professor in the history of medicine at Case...
Die Scholems: Geschichte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie, a book by Jay Geller—the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies—was named a runner-up for the Sachbücher des Monats prize, given to the best non-fiction book in Germany each month.
The prize is awarded by an independent jury of scholars, journalists and critics. It...
John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed Cleveland’s resilient past in the face of global pandemics. Read more from News 5 Cleveland here.
Jonathan Sadowsky, the Theodore J. Castele Professor in the Department of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about the novel nature of looking at depression from a historian’s point of view, in book form. Read his interview with Psychiatric Times here.
Amanda Mahoney, chief curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center, discussed some of the exhibits and medical disposables of the past—related to pandemics of another era—at the museum. She’s said she’s weighing whether to add to the collection—either a pristine N95 mask or one that a nurse had kept...