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Faculty, Student, Alumni Notes
- Shamus Khan, professor of sociology and American studies, writes in The Washington Post ‘How rich people will cut the line for the coronavirus vaccine,’ and that money provides enormous leverage in the profit-driven United States health system.
- AMS executive committee member Brian Herrera, associate professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and associate faculty of the Program in Latino Studies, has been named to the Drama League Directors Council.
- In The Washington Post, AMS executive committee member and AMS 101 faculty Ali Valenzuela, assistant professor of politics, writes with Abdiel Santiago and Alexander Kustov on their Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties study of how mainland Americans feel about the possibility of Puerto Rico as the 51st state, and what might change attitudes.
- Jessica Lambert, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and a member of the Class of 2022, writes in The Daily Princetonian about the growing Indigenous studies community at Princeton, and the website spearheaded by Professor of English and American Studies Sarah Rivett.
- AMS executive committee member Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, discusses with Thomas Edsall in The New York Times the implications of a refusal to acknowledge a presidential election loss.
- Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Monica Huerta and Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English Autumn Womack launched Organizing Stories, a student-driven project whose website and workshop series connect scholarly and communal social justice work.
- In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Professor of English and American Studies Anne Cheng writes that Disney’s live-action Mulan “reminds us that the use value of ‘China’ for Western modernity has not changed very much since the 19th century.”
- On a faculty panel previewing the September 29 presidential debate, Ali Valenzuela discussed the individual, communal, and policy impact of voting.
- This August, Brian Herrera led “Performance and American Cultures: Summer Manuscript Intensive,” supported by the Princeton University Humanities Council. Guest scholar Jade Power-Sotomayor spoke with Class of 2020 alumnus Jon Garaffa.
- AMS executive committee members Carolyn Rouse, professor and chair of anthropology, and Paul Starr, professor of sociology and the Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, discussed “The University, Social Justice, and Free Inquiry” with Princeton Alumni Weekly.
- The Georgetown Center for the Constitution awarded the 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize to Sean Wilentz for No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (Harvard University Press, 2018).
- Perspectives on History spotlights AMS executive committee member Rosina Lozano, associate professor of history.
- Judith Hamera, professor of dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts and American studies, won the Gertrude Lippincott Award for Best Article of the Year (2019) from the Dance Studies Association for “Gus Giordano, The Rehearsal, and the Critical Utility of Forgotten Dance Triumphs,” also an honorable mention for the 2020 Outstanding Article Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.