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Jul 14, 2022
In the wake of widespread calls to decolonize institutional narratives of cultural heritage, two faculty in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Gülru Çakmak of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and Jennifer Heuer of the Department of History, invited articles for a special issue of the online journal H-France Salon: “Rethinking Race and Representation in Art History and Material Culture of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Francosphere.”
Jun 22, 2022
Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor in the Department of History, has written a perspective for the Washington Post on how interpretations of Title IX have reshaped athletics in positive and negative ways in the 50 years since it was enacted. “Since 1972, women’s intercollegiate athletic participation has expanded roughly 12-fold, with the formation of thousands of teams for girls and women,” she writes. “Research shows that girls and women of color and those from lower-income families are much less apt to enjoy either access to sports or to their spillover benefits.”
