According to English professor Jessica DeSpain, William Pannapacker, writer for the “The Chronicle for Higher Education” called digital humanities not only the next big thing, but the future of all research.
English professors DeSpain and Hildebrandt co-founded SIUE's IRIS Center in 2009. Photo courtesy of Theresa San Luis.
“We need that on campus,” DeSpain said. “We need […]
African-American women played an integral and central role in the development of a long- standing activist tradition in the U.S., according to historical studies professor Jessica Harris.
History professor Jessica Harris' book “Before the Panthers: Black Women, Tempered Radicalism and the Fight for Racial Justice in Oakland, California, 1900-1940” will be published next year.
Harris’ research on […]
“A Servant of Two Masters” opens this week and will involve humor-instilled moments through audience and cast interaction.
Pictured above the student cast of SIUE's production, "A Servant of Two Masters"
Directed by theater professor Chuck Harper, it will open Wed., October 15 at Dunham Hall and run through Sunday, October 19. From Wednesday through Saturday shows […]
India, the Philippines, Great Britain and Canada are just a few of the countries of origin for the Women’s Studies Program blog’s readers.
Some of the blog posts have been widely read around the world and have been linked to discuss on popular blogs such as the Feminist Philosophers blog, which has an international presence, according […]
Within eight months of a tornado leveling the house of Andrea Bowers, the Master of Public Administration graduate was asked to be a part of a sub-committee project developing a resource book for disaster victims from a survivor’s perspective.
MPA graduate Andrea Bowers and her family. Photo courtesy of Bowers
Her position within the Success by 6 […]
To keep consistent and better reflect the diversity of the discipline, the Department of Speech Communication has changed its name to Department of Applied Communication Studies, according to faculty.
Applied Communicaton Studies faculty and staff below the sign with the new denomination for the department
The name change successfully underwent university wide and Illinois Board of Higher […]
Different procedures in the U.S. House of representative might provide a route for vote buying, according to political science professor Kenneth Moffett.
Political Sciences professor Kenneth Moffett
Moffett’s article, “Partisan vote buying and suspensions in the Postreform House,” investigates the conditions in which the U.S. House considers bills in ways that might facilitate side payments for bill […]
SIUE students who are part of the Cougar Theater Company perform "Heads and Tales." Photo courtesy of Joshua Douglas.
SIUE’s Cougar Theater Company continues to extend outreach to children in the local community, and recently performed “Heads and Tales,” a play by Carol Lauck.
In late September, SIUE theater alumni Joshua Douglas directed the cast of five […]
Political Science professors Anne Flaherty and Carly Hayden-Foster published an article “Gateway to Equality: desegregation and the American Association of University Women in St. Louis, Missouri.”
Archive used by Flaherty and Hayden-Foster for their publication “Gateway to Equality: desegregation and the American Association of University Women in St. Louis, Missouri.”
The article investigates the national desegregation efforts […]
Two English faculty members presented their works which addressed issues related to sexual exploitation at the Faculty Writers Read last Thursday.
English professor Ising recites his short stories at the Faculty Writers Read at the MUC. Photo by Theresa San Luis.
English instructor Daniel Ising read two short stories or pieces of fiction writing while English professor […]
