Perspectives

Martin Jacobs, professor of rabbinic studies in Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in Arts & Sciences, offers a Jewish perspective of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlán, what is today Mexico City, to the Spanish conquistadors.

Jeff Hansen, an MD-PhD student at WashU, has written a children’s book, “The Perfect Baseball Player.” The project grew out of his thesis focused on the human genome.

Lynne Ramsay’s 1999 debut film is arguably one of the masterpieces of 20th-century depictions of childhood poverty, writes Eileen G’Sell, senior lecturer in college writing.

Tazeen Ali, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses a new book project focused on the Women’s Mosque of America, founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, and the platform it has given to Muslim women.

InPrint, a trainee-run scientific communication network that provides free editing, design and presentation consulting to the WashU community, in a Nature Portfolio Bioengineering Community post.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, discusses how Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pamphlets and other materials began circulating in West Africa many years before official missionary work began, as part of a lecture series on Mormon history.

Microbiologist Arpita Bose in Arts & Sciences discusses her work with electricity-eating bacteria in an episode of the podcast “60 Second Science.”

The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing, writes Ian Bogost, professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences.

Jessi Gold, MD, a psychiatrist at the School of Medicine, writes about top concerns people are having as they return to working in an office, from COVID-19 exposure to work-life balance — and healthy ways to respond.

Historian William Kelly joins the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences for 2021–22 as an Emerging Voices Fellow, funded by a program from the American Council of Learned Societies. Here, Kelly discusses his upbringing, his research and his planned work with the Divided City initiative.