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Job Announcement: TESOL Lecturer Positions

Teachers College, Columbia University

The Teachers college at Columbia University invites applications for two lecturer positions in language and education beginning in Fall 2015.  Both positions are renewable, subject to performance...

Posted: October 26, 2014, 11:23 AM

Dr. Michelle Stefano returned from a conference in Havana

A close and dear relative of the critical heritage studies movement is the International Movement for the New Museology (MINOM) of ICOM, which has been promoting socio-museological thinking and...

Posted: October 25, 2014, 12:00 AM

Preminda Jacob, Visual Arts, in Scroll

Examines Visual Culture and Indian Politics in Scroll

When J Jayalalithaa, a film star turned prominent politician, was convicted of charges involving financial assets, her supporters in the state of Tamil Nadu responded to the verdict by creating...

Posted: October 22, 2014, 6:43 PM

Kimberly Moffitt, AMST, On Marc Steiner Show

Discussing challenges, complexities and joys of raising boys

On October 8, WEAA's The Marc Steiner Show  hosted a segment discussing the challenges, complexities and joys of raising and educating boys. Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American...

Posted: October 22, 2014, 6:34 PM

CIES Dissertation Award 2015

Comparative and International Education Society

The Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Language Issues (LI) Special Interest Group (SIG) is pleased to announce its 2013-2015 Dissertation Award! The award is open to dissertations...

Posted: October 21, 2014, 6:56 PM

Way to go Todd Carter!

Todd Carter, December 2009 graduate,Spatial Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Response, has been working part time as a Rehab Technician at a local hospital, taking classes part time at Montgomery...

Posted: October 20, 2014, 12:29 PM

Watch the segment featuring Baltimore's painted screens!

Featuring AMST's former folklorist-in-residence, Elaine Eff

Jan Crawford explores a unique folk art tradition going back 100 years - once seen on nearly every row house in the working class neighborhoods of Baltimore, Md. - as artists today once again...

Posted: October 19, 2014, 7:14 PM

AMST's former Folklorist-in-Residence to be featured on CBS!

CBS Sunday Morning features Elaine Eff's new book

Tune in on Sunday, October 19, 2014, 9 to 10:30AM. CBS Sunday Morning will feature the new book by AMST's former Folklorist-in-Residence Elaine Eff, The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk...

Posted: October 18, 2014, 10:26 PM

Job Announcement: Adult Literacy Researchers Wanted!

Georgia State University

Georgia State University has faculty lines open for THREE scholars with established external funding and research in adult literacy. Faculty members will be hired at the rank of professor or...

Posted: October 17, 2014, 11:57 AM