College of Arts and Sciences

Visiting Professor Einav Rabinovitch-Fox recently wrote and article for theconversation.com titled "How White Became the Color of Suffrage." Professor Rabinovitch-Fox traces the use color in early women's suffrage marches to the recent Trump State of the Union, where female members of congress wore white in homage to suffragists. The article...

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Time.com recently published an article looking at the history of presidential approval ratings in the wake of President Trump's near-record low rating. Professor Peter Shulman contributed to the article, discussing the origins of poll-taking and its roots in the Progressive Era's "trend toward the use of facts of figures...

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Professor Ben Vinson III has been awarded the 2019 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History for his 2017 book, "Before Mestizaje: The Fontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico." The prize is awarded by the Latin American Studies Association to "an author of an outstanding book...

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Professor Sentilles was featured recently in an article run in the NY Times on 12/25 titled "The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting" The article covers the many and varied ways modern parents, and in particular mothers, have increased the amount of time and money spent parenting their children. The article,...

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Professor John Grabowski recently appeared on an episode on "The Sound of Ideas" to discuss the extremely deadly flu that swept the globe in the later months of 1918, killing as many as 100 million. Professor Grabowski spoke with "The Sound of Ideas" about the impact the pandemic had...

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Professor Grabowski recently spoke with Rachel Abbey Mccafferty from "Crain's Cleveland Business" about the impact the Lordstown GM Plant had on the "ecology" of the automotive community in Cleveland and the surrounding area when it opened in the 1960's. With it's impending closure, projected to occur on March 1,...

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Professor Sentilles recently spoke with Mary Kilpatrick of cleveland.com to discuss the ways is which cultural context can shift how we interpret song lyrics, in particular, the Christmas classic "Baby It's Cold Outside." In the wake of the #MeToo movement, and ever-increasing awareness of gender-based power structures, the way...

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Professor Rabinovitch-Fox spoke with Bob Garfield of WNYC Studios' On the Media to discuss the long-standing media tradition of attempting to discredit outspoken women by obsessing over their clothes. Professor Rabinovitch-Fox spoke specifically about the recent criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "fashion choices" as an echo of similar backlash against thousands...

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John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History and editor of the CWRU-supported Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, spoke about the history of the twin Art Deco statues framing Cleveland's Lorain-Carnegie Bridge. "Exploring the History and Popularity of Cleveland's Guardians of Traffic. Images of the larger-than-life Art Deco statues above Cleveland’s Lorain-Carnegie Bridge...

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"Driven by a love of the printed word, the late Adeline Barry Davee graduated with a master’s degree in English from Flora Stone Mather College—just a year after earning a bachelor’s in the subject in 1931. Hired by her alma mater’s history department to assist its then-chair—Robert C. Binkley—she helped...

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