Annette M. Rodríguez, professor in the Department of History, shares her journey from childhood road trips in the Southwest to degrees at the University of New Mexico then Brown. Along the way, we learn of her innovative scholarship, collaborations, and data mapping projects that enrich understanding of historical continuities and inversions that create racialized constructions of belonging and unbelonging in the U.S.
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Into the COLAverse – Episode 17: Scott Graham
Scott Graham, professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, shares his journey from philosophy to rhetoric, bioscience, health practice, and AI. Along the way we learn about the importance of new models for health care practice and delivery (Tweetorials included) as well as the pros and cons of AI systems in our everyday lives.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 5: Erika Bsumek
Erika Bsumek, professor in American History and Eugene C. Barker Centennial Chair, shares her journey from histories shared across dinner tables as a child to become a scholar of environmental history, especially focused on consumerism, land resources, dispossession, race relations, and federal policy.