Research Highlights |November 2024, FAU BOCA RATON | |
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Media Lab Receives $100,000 Grant
MediaLab@FAU, a community journalism initiative in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative aimed at revitalizing local news and strengthening communities. MediaLab@FAU was launched in September 2023 by Ilene Prusher, senior instructor of multimedia journalism. It’s been estimated that MediaLab’s articles reached upward of 25 million people based on potential online exposure of its articles in its first year. READ MORE
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Jean M. Caldeiron Earns Fulbright Global Scholar Award
The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board selected Jean Martin Caldieron, associate professor in the School of Architecture, for the prestigious Fulbright Global Scholar Award (academic year 2024-25). Caldieron is conducting research at the Centre de Recherches Architecturales et Urbaines at the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny and teaching at the Abidjan School of Architecture, in Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa (Sub-Saharan Africa). His main research project is titled “Self-Improvement of Informal Settlements in Côte d’Ivoire: A Community Empowerment Project.” READ MORE
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School of Architecture Teams up with Community Partners to Tackle Affordable Housing Crisis
The School of Architecture has teamed up with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global HIV/AIDS organization and a longtime advocate for affordable housing, and the award-winning Glavovic Studio, a Fort Lauderdale-based architecture firm, to address America’s affordable housing crisis. READ MORE
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Talon Awards for the College
Florida Atlantic’s Alumni and Community Engagement Association recently hosted its annual Talon Leadership Awards ceremony as part of Homecoming 2024. The college was recognized in several of the awards. First, the President’s Talon Award was awarded to philanthropist Marilyn Wallach who, with her late husband Kurt Wallach, donated $20 million to FAU to partner with the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters on a transformational legacy gift to construct the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Holocaust and Jewish Studies Building. Secondly, FAU President Stacy Volnick, Ph.D., ’87, ’06, ’22, received the Richard L. Schmidt Alumni Talon Award. Volnick received her bachelor’s degree in communication in Arts and Letters. And finally, the Faculty Talon Award was presented to Michell Hutchings, D.M.A., who serves as artistic director of the FAU Opera Theatre in Arts and Letters. READ MORE
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College Sponsors “Behind the Ballot,” organized by Palm Beach County North Chamber
Dean Michael Horswell, Associate Deans Kevin Wagner and Carol Mills, and faculty members Evan Bennett (associate professor, history), Nicole Anslover (associate professor, history), and Deandre Poole (instructor, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies) attended the Palm Beach County North Chamber meeting in October. Local leaders Jeff Atwater from Ballard Partners and Amanda Atwater (FAU alumna) from Northwestern Mutual were also part of the FAU contingent.
Dean Horswell made a presentation about the college, sharing insights into the impactful work being done within the College of Arts and Letters, particularly highlighting initiatives from our Political Science Department and the FAU PolCom Lab.
Wendy Sartory Link, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, provided valuable perspectives on election integrity, recent changes in election laws, and how voters can ensure their voices are heard.
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Ilaria Serra Wins International Award
Ilaria Serra, professor, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, won the Italian Language Foundation’s 2024 Teacher Recognition Award. Serra was one of four teachers across the United States to win this award. READ MORE
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Aidan Nettles Selected for Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies
Aidan Nettles, assistant professor of dance, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS). This program, which advances global Israel studies, invites scholars from across the Unted States and abroad to deepen their expertise and develop courses within their disciplines. As part of the program, Professor Nettles will take part in a 10-day residency at Brandeis University, engaging in seminars with leading Israel Studies scholars. She will then join a study tour of Israel, meeting with prominent intellectuals, politicians, and community leaders.
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Creative Nonfiction at FAU is on a Roll
Faculty, graduate students and alumni working in creative nonfiction at FAU have recently received many accolades.
- MFA alum Joseph Precanico's received a notable nod in Best American Essays for Salamander's "If Men Had Wings.”
- Current MFA student Wilson Sims got Special Mention in the 2025 Pushcart Prize for his Longreads essay, "Unknown Costs."
- Faculty member Stephanie Anderson got Special Mention in the 2025 Pushcart Prize for her Ninth Letter essay, "Disturbance."
- Papatya Bucak got a notable nod in Best American Essays for her Joyland essay, "How to be Half Mixed Everything Both Sort Of."
- Andrew Furman got a notable nod in Best American Science and Nature Writing for his "Terrain" essay “Foxes."
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Stacey Balkan’s New Article on Infrastructure and Postcolonial Climate Fiction
Stacey Balkan’s article (associate professor, English) "Electric Ladyland: Anticolonial Solarpunk as Infrastructural Resistance in Two Works of Speculative Fiction" was recently published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. The essay examines anti-extractivist climate fictions that model a radical energy politics, while also clarifying the central role of the colonial-capitalist transaction at the heart of petromodernity. READ MORE
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“Theodore Pratt, A Florida Writer’s Life,” by Taylor Hagood, Professor, English, was recently published by Pineapple Press. Theodore Pratt (1901-1969) was the author of 15 books about the Sunshine State, earning him the informal title of “Literary Laureate of Florida.” He portrayed the culture of South Florida from its pioneer days to the middle of the twentieth century, especially in his “Florida Trilogy,” which includes his most famous book, "The Barefoot Mailman" (1943). Hagood’s other books include "Faulkner, Writer of Disability" (winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award for Best Book in Southern Studies) and "Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend." | | |
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Phil Hough, Professor, Sociology, won the 2023 Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Award for his first book, “At the Margins of the Global Market,” published by Cambridge University Press. The book also received honorable mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Award. The book provides a comparative and world-historical analysis of the labour regimes of three global commodity-producing subregions of rural Colombia: the coffee region of Viejo Caldas, the banana region of Urabá, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguán.
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