Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Fall 2009 

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Linda Gordon
Professor, Department of History, FAS

The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future
Carol Gilligan
Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development

David A.J. Richards
Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent US Literatures and Cultures
Crystal Parikh
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, FAS
2009-2010 Faculty Fellow, The Humanities Initiative

About Face: Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts
Edited by Lindsay Eufusia, Elena Bellina, and Paolo Ugolini
PhD Candidates, Department of Italian Studies, FAS

Spring 2010

Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy and the Integrity of Social Life
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communications, Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development

Sacred Violence: The European Crusades to the Middle East 1095-1396
Jill Claster
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, FAS

The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America
Kathleen Gerson
Professor, Department of Sociology, FAS

Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
Dr. Danielle Ofri
Attending Physician, Bellevue Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine

Pale Faces: Masks of Anemia
Dr. Charles Bardes
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion
Festschrift in honor of Penelope Johnson
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, FAS

“Drawing and Dissection: Ways of Understanding the Human Body”
A conversation with Laura Ferguson (artist-in-residence at NYU School of Medicine) and Bill Hayes (author of The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy)

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch
Research Professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Formerly of the U.S. Department of Education

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
Jane Burbank
Professor, Department of History, FAS
Fred Cooper
Professor, Department of History, FAS