Humanities

Chris Agee – Important Insight into How Law and Order Developed Alongside Liberal Politics in San Francisco

Feb. 5, 2018

Through personal papers and over forty oral histories, Assistant Professor of History Christopher Lowen Agee researched seldom-reported, street-level interactions between police officers and San Francisco residents during the 1950s and 60s for his first book, The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972...

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Hamilton Bean – Improving Wireless Emergency Alerts for Public Warning

Feb. 5, 2018

Associate Professor of Communication Hamilton Bean and his research collaborators, affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded Center of Excellence based at the University of Maryland, are conducting multi-method research on how to best word short,...

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Nicky Beer Publishes The Octopus Game

Feb. 5, 2018

With her first collection of poetry, The Diminishing House , Assistant Professor of English Nicky Beer was awarded the Colorado Book for Poetry. Prior to its publication, she had already earned awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Now Beer...

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