Our Far Flung Faculty: Two Junior Faculty Earn Fulbright Awards
IN THIS ISSUE...
- Art Exhibition Travels from OSU Urban Arts Space to New York City and Chicago
- Veterans Learning Community: An Arts and Humanities Response to the Military Experience
- Our Far Flung Faculty: Two Junior Faculty Earn Fulbright Awards
- Interests Converge as Undergraduate Students and Faculty Collaborate for the Research on Research Showcase
- Inaugural Lecture Series Largest Ever
- New Senior Hires in Arts and Humanities
- Arts and Humanities Alumni Joining Together
- The TBDBITL Scholarship Fund Helps OSU Band Members Reach Their Goals
Morgan Liu
Morgan Liu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, will travel to Kyrgyzstan on a Fulbright-Hays Research Award, to study "Central Asian Islam and Post-Soviet Societal Transformation." Morgan Liu will examine the beliefs of Muslims in Central Asia regarding Islam's ability to solve systemic societal problems. Islam is understood to play a significant role in the structural transformation of post-Soviet society; Morgan Liu proposes to interrogate the ethical motivations of religious piety in the moderate, state-supporting Islamic revival in Central Asia today. The fieldwork involves local language interviews with religious and community leaders in Uzbek, Russian, and Kyrgyz, and ethnographic observation of mosque and neighborhood life.
Christine (Cricket) Keating
Christine (Cricket) Keating, Assistant Professor in Women's Studies, has received a Fulbright Award to travel to Sri Lanka to study the connections between the Sri Lankan feminist movement and other transnational forms of solidarity, as part of a larger project on worldwide movements for gender justice. Her project, "Cosmopolitan Solidarities: Sri Lankan Feminism and Transnational Democracy," examines the way that the Sri Lankan Feminist Movement works to redress inequities among women along class, racial, ethnic, and national lines. Cricket Keating is working at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, and democratic theory: her first book project, entitled The Postcolonial Sexual Contract: Gender and Democracy in India is under review at Pennsylvania State University Press.
