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H. Esma Celebioglu completed her BA at Bogazici University in the Philosophy Department. She has an MA degree in Cultural Studies from Istanbul Sehir University. She wrote her MA thesis on how communication mechanisms can be used as resistance tools.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Shauna Rigaud, PhD '24, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni award in cultural studies. Rigaud is a cultural studies scholar whose work explores the intersections of race, gender, identity, and freedom within the Anglophone Caribbean.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Roger Lancaster's landmark ethnographic work, Life Is Hard. It's being translated for the first time by the Argentinian publisher Prometeo.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

The program gave me an interdisciplinary viewpoint, which I appreciate and hope is manifested throughout the book. This research on deaf made home movies perfectly espouses the human agency often discussed in Cultural Studies, and as a potential mode of “resistance,” even if it wasn’t always intentional.