Stories about "Faculty accomplishments"
China’s social-media censors quicker than previously thought, Auer’s research reveals
Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:52 pm
Matt Auer, dean of the faculty and an environmental policy expert, and a colleague made their discovery by looking at censorship related to the film "Under the Dome."
With Guggenheim, Strong to study Western views of Buddhist relics
Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:05 pm
Bates College professor John Strong has received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support research into ways in which Westerners have responded to Buddhist relics.
Rice-DeFosse co-authors history of Twin Cities’ Franco-Americans
Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:42 pm
While researching "The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn," historian James Myall and Bates French professor Mary Rice-DeFosse encountered a few shocks.
‘Plucked’: Race, gender, science, medicine converge in history of hair removal
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:31 pm
"Plucked: A History of Hair Removal," a new social history by Bates College professor Rebecca Herzig, weaves together for the first time Americans' shifting beliefs about facial and body hair with the technology and business of body modification.
Herzig to speak on science, suffering and feminism
Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:31 am
Rebecca Herzig marks her appointment to an endowed professorship at Bates College with a lecture on Dec. 2.
An award-winning poet, Crystal Williams to read in Language Arts Live event
Monday, November 17, 2014 11:09 am
The author of four collections of poems, Crystal Williams reads from her work in a Language Arts Live event at Bates College on Nov. 19.
New book by sociologist Duina studies American view of life transitions
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 2:08 pm
Known for a study of the American focus on winning, Bates sociologist Francesco Duina views the emotional landscape from a different perspective in his new book.
Pickens book explores embodied experience in African American, Arab American writing
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:09 pm
Do the people you touch make you the person you are? If you are breathing, can your oppressors claim that you do not exist? Questions like these drive Therí Pickens' new book.
‘How to Make the Universe Right’: a landmark exhibition of shamanist objects from Vietnam
Monday, January 6, 2014 12:58 pm
In an exhibition believed to be the most extensive of its kind…
Danforth’s ‘Children of the Greek Civil War’ receives prestigious book prize
Friday, December 20, 2013 3:09 pm
Co-written by anthropologist Danny Danforth, a study of children's evacuation campaigns during the Greek Civil War has received a prestigious book prize.