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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Liz Andrews, PhD Cultural Studies '19, with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award in Cultural Studies. Liz Andrews is an artist, curator, museum professional, and leader who is dedicated to the arts and social justice.

The master of arts in interdisciplinary studies (MAIS) program invites you to join us online on Wednesday, November 29 at 7:20 pm as we hear from several students about their research interests, and project and thesis proposals. You will learn more about the MAIS program, and winners of MAIS research grants will be announced.

The Spring 2024 cohort of Next System Fellows is now open for applications, offering a unique path to realizing your ambitions. Creating a new world system is our ultimate goal and the focus of our research.

Roger Lancaster's forthcoming book, "The Struggle to be Gay - In Mexico for Example" is being published by the University of California Press and is currently set to be released in February of 2024. 

His most recent book examines circuits and circulation in a variety of historical contexts including military communication, medicine and health, policing and surveillance, automobility and transportation, and optics.

The book was written with a more general reader in mind. My hope is that the general public reads it and begins to think about the problems with capitalism. For academics, I hope people read it and find it as a useful tool for analyzing the current moment. In my greatest hopes, people would begin to talk about “digital feudalism.” 

Her current research seeks to recognize Shakespeare and his work as inevitably imbricated in the contemporary market of cultural commodities, a recognition that has consequences for how we “feel” about any given instance of that work.