Perspectives

Arts & Science’s William Acree describes the university’s attempt to introduce a new, highly transdisciplinary cohort model for incoming graduate students.

William Maxwell, a professor in Arts & Sciences, was featured on a recent episode of “LOA Live.” Hosted by the Library of America, the program, titled “Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic,” focused on the republication of John A. Williams’ 1967 novel “The Man Who Cried I Am.”

Preventing head injury is an important objective of the plastic safety helmet, but it is not its primary purpose. Nor has it been, for a very long time, writes Noah Cohan, lecturer in American Culture Studies.

Director Nicole Newnham chronicles the rise, fall, and disappearance of the iconic feminist sexologist, writes Eileen G’Sell, lecturer in writing.

Husain Lateef, at the Brown School, takes part in an “inSocialWork” podcast episode, discussing the Afrocentric worldview that emphasizes collectivism, community and compassion in promoting improved mental health among Black men.

If the Eighth Circuit is going to re-write the VRA’s jurisdictional provisions, it should have assured itself that it had authority to hear this case, writes Travis Crum, associate professor of law.

Elizabeth Hunter, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses her book project “In the Story: Space and Spectatorship from Theatron to Augmented Reality,” and how directors connect with the audience, from Shakespeare’s time through today.

Crime is political. It was designed to be. And it perhaps it should be, writes the law school’s Sheldon Evans.

Notable are performances in ancient Greek at Columbia/Barnard and in English translation at the University of Vermont. These performances indicate how much Greek theater has in common with modern musical theater on Broadway and around the world today, writes Timothy Moore.

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, in Arts & Sciences, writes about how an organization’s culture can help Black employees feel welcome and valued. She recently published “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It.”