Since its premiere on Oct. 11, 1975, Saturday Night Live has become a cultural institution, with lines from its skits ("More cowbell!") becoming a part of Americans'
Roland Leander Williams, Jr. was the great-grandson of an American slave and was raised on Race Street in Philadelphia. He earned his BA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Williams taught at Penn, the University of Delaware, and The Ohio State University prior to beginning his work as Assistant Professor of English at Temple University in 1995. He was later promoted to Associate Professor, Professor, and Chairperson of the English Department.Roland Williams was a scholar of African American culture and cinema. He was the author of African American...
Professor Michael Leeds and Eva Marikova Leeds (Moravian University) were guest co-editors of a special issue of the Journal of Sports Economics devoted to Title IX and women's sports. They also coauthored the introductory article, "And Yet…": Title IX Fifty Years on An Introduction.
This past summer, English Professor Srimati Mukherjee was invited to spend three weeks at the American Academy in Rome as part of their Visiting Scholars program. The Academy prides itself as a hub for eager minds in the arts and humanities. For decades, scholars and artists (including winners of the prestigious Rome Prize) have convened on its campus to share inspiration and ideas in a historic Italian landscape. For Mukherjee, the excursion was an opportunity to immerse herself in her current research as well as her passion for teaching.Though a published American Literature...
Professor Caterina Roman has recently had a policy essay published in Vital City. Professor Roman writes that, in the 2024 election season, political ads stoked fear by falsely depicting rising crime and lawlessness, feeding into widespread anxiety. She argues that fear of crime, driven more by emotion than reality, fuels harmful policies and behaviors that hurt public health, erode trust, and distort perceptions of crime. The solution lies in reshaping the narrative by highlighting the true decline in violence and promoting evidence-based policies. Consistent narratives...
Sometimes the right opportunity comes along and changes your trajectory, opening doors you otherwise might not have envisioned. Alex Barone, CLA '24, has seen this play out firsthand.
As an undergrad psychology major and volunteer in Temple's Control and Behavior Laboratory (CAB Lab), Barone participated in a research study examining what makes humans able or unable to identify AI-generated web content. The results were accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. This project, which helped set Barone on his path to grad school, was made possible by a Liberal Arts...
We wanted to do something else above and beyond what we were already doing, says John Ewell when asked about he and his wife Lynne's most recent gift to Temple's College of Liberal Arts (CLA). John, CLA '87, and Lynne Ewell, ENG '86, have endowed a Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award, otherwise known as a LAURA. Each of these vital awards grants a student a $2,000 stipend to conduct research alongside a faculty mentor. The program offers students valuable professional research experience without any additional financial stress. The LAURAs help to highlight the role of the...
Elena Hincapié is in her second semester of the MPP program and currently serves as Economic Empowerment Assistant at Women Against Abuse in Philadelphia. Continue reading to learn more about her current position and experience in the MPP program!
Can you tell us about your role as the Economic Empowerment Assistant at Women Against Abuse? What does a typical day look like for you?
My role at Women Against Abuse (WAA) as an economic policy analyst allows me to take a holistic approach in the examination of previous and current legislation surrounding the barriers of...
The first paper, "Navigating Power in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Naxi Mu Chieftain and the Xitan Temple on Mt. Jizu" was presented as part of the Transregional Encounters in Yunnan panel: Connecting East Asian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Buddhism, Buddhism Unit. This panel was co-organized by Dr. Megan Bryson, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, and Lu Huang. The second paper, "Debunking Biological Determinism: Metaphysical Realism and Queerness in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma" was presented in the Gender Metaphysics in Buddhist Doctrines and Narratives...
Dr. Aunshul Rege and PhD student Rachel Bleiman, recently had their dataset, Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attack (CIRA) highlighted in Security Week in the article University's Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attack Tracker Reaches 2,000 Incidents. The feature details the impact of their work on cybersecurity research and policy, as the dataset has become a go-to resource for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers alike. This project, which started as a modest initiative five years ago, has grown into one of the most recognized resources in the field, now...
Professor Peter Jones (Ph.D., Geography, Aberystwyth University) who joined the faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in 1985, will formally retire this summer after a truly impressive 40-year career at Temple. As part of the transitional retirement program, Peter taught his last class this fall and will be off campus this spring.Peter has provided high-quality education to students in the department in his time here. Among his courses, he taught Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Courts, Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Introduction to...
Veronica "Ronni" Nelson was awarded a Dissertation Completion Grant from Temple's Graduate School. This award will support her final semester of work to complete her dissertation, "The Beginning of a Dehumanization Process: An Examination of Visitation Experiences During and 'After' COVID-19". The study draws on multiple methods to understand the effects of changes to prison visitation policies and practices in Pennsylvania facilities before and 'after' the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yat Ching Yeung, a third year PhD student in the Religion department, presented her paper at this year's American Academy of Religion Conference. The paper session was Buddhist Epistemology and Virtue Epistemology, and the topic of Yat Ching's paper is "Virtuous Vision: Navigating the Nexus of Virtue Reliabilism and Moral Phenomenology in The Treasury of Valid Knowledge and Reasoning" .
In a complicated world, diplomats are the face of American foreign policy. They represent the United States, coordinate policy and operations, and engage with their host nations. With all these important responsibilities, it is not every day that undergraduate students are able to engage with a diplomat. But recently, Temple students had one such opportunity to better understand their roles.
On Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Art Brown visited Temple University as part of the State Department's Hometown Diplomats Program. Ambassador Brown discussed...
The Philosophy department congratulates Austin Tate Fuller, one of two Nordev Prize recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year for his preliminary examination "Being the Devil: Rough Heroes, Fiction, and Videogames". Austin's main interests are in the philosophy of art and aesthetics, specifically doing work in the philosophy of literature, philosophy of video games, and the philosophy of humor. Austin is also interested in 19th century philosophy and Existentialism.
The Philosophy department congratulates Eli Benjamin Israel, one of two Nordev Prize recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year for his preliminary examination "Homo Noumenon: An Atemporal Reading of Kant's Postulate of the Immortality of the Soul". Eli Benjamin Israel is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Temple University, specializing in ethics, moral psychology, social philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His current research focuses on the normativity of trust and consent within interpersonal relationships. Israel has published in academic philosophy journals and has been...
On November 13th, the 27th annual Temple University Innovative Idea Competition was held by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at the Fox School of Business. The Innovative Idea Competition invites students, faculty and staff from all 17 of Temple's schools and colleges to present products, services and tech as the foundations of new businesses, with over $10,000 in total cash prizes at stake. Megan Kane, CLA '24, won first prize in the upper track, as well the overall grand prize, for AI-Aware Writing Environment (AAWE). AAWE is an application that allows students...
After a nearly fifty-year tenure at Columbia University, the Council for European Studies (CES) has officially made the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University its new institutional home. With this new partnership, Temple students and faculty will have easier access to resources and support toward European-focused academic endeavors across multiple disciplines.
Since its founding in 1970, CES has sought to support students, scholars and faculty in European-focused academic pursuits through fellowships, grants, a bimonthly journal, global conferences, and other programs...
This past September, New York City played host to the United Nations Summit of the Future. The conference brought world leaders together to develop a more cohesive, unified approach to tackling current global issues and preparing responses to challenges that will emerge in our future.
Of course, you can't properly plan for a greater tomorrow without input from our young, future leaders and the communities they represent. That's why a group of graduate students from Temple's Africology and African American Studies Department made their voices heard at the Black Paper...
For the past month, Temple University students have been educating North Philadelphia community residents on how to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime. It's all part
