Seeds of Peace
This past year, a team of our colleagues - Adi Raz (project lead), Behrad Aghaei, Nilay Sevinc, Sosy Mishoyan, and Michael Pifer - were awarded a LSA New Initaitves/New Instruction (NINI) grant for their project "Seeds of Peace: Cross Cultural Talk in the Middle East". During the academic year students in our Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and Armenian language programs will meet weekly to learn about shared dimensions of life in the Middle East. It's an exciting experimental model for language learning and for undergraduate education in Middle East Studies.
This is a new model for DEI instruction and for language instruction at UM, and we are thrilled for the great work our faculty has put forth to continue to grow interest, diversity, equity, and inclusion for our student population.
Ana Sabau Fernandez was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Her research focuses on the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Latin American written and visual culture, with a special emphasis on Mexico. Sabau’s first book, Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm (University of Texas Press, 2022), challenges the conventional narratives of Mexican history and establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system. Riot and Rebellion won the 2023 Best Book in the Humanities award for the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
Tatiana Calixto
Adrion Dula
José Luis Fernández-Garcia
Kathleen Forrester
Sabine Gabaron
Elizabeth Houbeck
George Hoffmann
Michelle Orecchio
Teresa Piper
Rashmi Rama
Sandra Rodriguez-Bontemps
Rachelle Wilson
Tatiana Calixto
Adrion Dula
José Luis Fernández-Garcia
Kathleen Forrester
Sabine Gabaron
Elizabeth Houbeck
George Hoffmann
Michelle Orecchio
Teresa Piper
Rashmi Rama
Sandra Rodriguez-Bontemps
Rachelle Wilson
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