Criminal Justice professors Ajima Olaghere and E. Rely Vilcica recently received Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards LAURA. LAURA creates more opportunities for undergraduate students to develop research skills by working with faculty mentors on faculty-led research projects while simultaneously increasing support for faculty research in the College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Olaghere will be working with Erin Young on research entitled, Motivations for Police Proactivity at the Street-Level: A Meta-Synthesis. The project concerns a meta-synthesis that aims to...
By: Nick Santangelo
Could philosophy ever operate as a sort of replacement for religion? Philosopher G.W.F. Hegel once wrote that both religion and philosophy place the spirit or mind higher than nature and that both are closely tied to the practical and ethical.
In his visit to the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) Center for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT) last Friday, Professor Dean Moyar of John Hopkins University explored philosophy's complex relationship with religion. Dr. Moyar, a guest of the Philosophy Department, reviewed the topic through a Hegelian...
Assistant Professor Lee-Ann Chae received "Honorable Mention" in the Mark Sanders competition for Public Philosophy for her essay "Talking to Children about War." You can read about the competition and find a link to the paper on the Mark Sanders Foundation website.
Criminal Justice Professor Steven Belenko recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Correction and Sentencing of the American Society of Criminology. The award honors an individual's distinguished scholarship in the area of corrections and/or sentencing over a lifetime.
Congratulations, Dr. Belenko!
By: Nick Santangelo
It's a comforting thought that the rich will generally act in the best interests of society. It's exciting to live in the digital age and buy into the idea that technology can solve what ails us. It's heartwarming to believe relatively small donations can make big differences. But can we really rely on those things to bring about large-scale, positive changes to the U.S.'s biggest problems?
That was the question NBC and MSNBC Political Analyst Anand Giridharadas posed to College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students Tuesday afternoon when he visited Ritter...
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently featured an editorial that stresses the city should increase police and academic partnerships to reduce crime. The editorial specifically refers to a recent police and Temple University partnership that studied the impact of a focused deterrence program. The study found that a focused deterrence approach reduced homicide by 35% in South Philadelphia.
Read the full editorial.
Read the Temple University study.
Dr. Bingenheimer will give a talk at Fu Jen University, Taipei on 12/17/18. The title of the talk is Network Analysis in Digital Humanities for Religious Studies.
By: Nick Santangelo
Originally from a big Northeastern city (Baltimore), Pamela Jackson came to an even bigger one (Philadelphia) to attend Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA). Naturally, she ended up doing perhaps her most impactful studying to date in rural South Dakota, a Midwestern state with a population half that of Philadelphia's and only a few hundred thousand more than Baltimore's.
The geography and urban studies major and Africology and African-American studies minor transferred to CLA after her freshman year. But even before starting her college...
By: Jillian Eller
Earlier this month, Geography and Urban Studies faculty members held a panel discussion titled, Can Humanity Avoid a Climate Breakdown? The IPCC Global Warming Report.
The panel was convened to discuss the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) recent report, released and finalized in October. The report is an update to 2016's Paris Climate Agreement in which world leaders established global warming standards. The agreement set a limit of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as the threshold increase of...
By: Nick Santangelo
Eli Valley kicked things off on an uplifting note: "We're here to talk about self-hatred. Real self-hatred."
OK, so it was more than a little bit dark, but that was to be expected. After all, the comic artist and writer has made a living satirizing Jewish life and Zionism with jokes that are often as serious as they are silly. Valley was on campus as a guest of the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Gladfelter Hall's Weigley Room earlier this month. There Valley shared some of his work with students and...
by Africology and African American Studies Department
November 21
The Journal of Black Studies produced a special edition to celebrate and assess 30 years of doctoral studies in African American studies with two editorials and four articles. View the full editorial (pdf.) titled Africology at 30: Success in Our Lifetime.
By Nick Santangelo
November 14 was GIS Day worldwide, including here at Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA). GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Day provides those interested in GIS technology, which is used for spatial analysis, the opportunity to come together and share knowledge.
For GIS Day 2018, CLA hosted a workshop for extending ArcGIS Online skills and a series of lightning talks about topics ranging from using maps to tell lies, using mapping for place narratives, social vulnerability analysis for spatial decision support and more. At the...
The Oman Peninsula has been known as "the land of copper" ever since Ancient Mesopotamia. And when archeologist Nasser Al-Jahwari of Sultan Qaboos University and his team started digging around there, they uncovered some incredible finds.
Dr. Al-Jahwari visited the Center for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT) earlier this month to share some of his findings with College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Anthropology and Geography and Urban Studies students. A packed CHAT crowd took in the professor's presentation of everything from a series of ancient buildings to human...
By: Patrick GordonA line snaked through the hallway on the second floor of the Howard Gittis Student Center on a mid-October afternoon. It resembled something akin to a celebrity autograph signing or a meet-and-greet with a superstar athlete. As the doors opened, more than 80 students were already in line anticipating their opportunity to speak—not with a celebrity or an athlete—but with some of Philadelphia's most recognizable employers at the inaugural College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Internship Fair. "We will definitely be booking a larger space next year," said Liz...
By: Nick Santangelo
In 2018, it's more socially acceptable than ever before to self-identify as a feminist. But while doing so emits cheers or showings of support from many corners, it still elicits blowback from others. Feminism has come a long way, but it still has a ways to go. What's more, the movement has many forms, some of which seemingly clash with one another.
To make sense of all this, University of Nottingham Associate Professor Catherine Rottenberg recently visited the Center for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT). Rottenberg was visiting as a guest of...
By: Nick Santangelo
Essays, in Aisha Sabatini Sloan's view, are both personal and impersonal all at once. She would know. Sloan, after all, has two published essay collections that explore issues of race, current events, art and more to her name. On Nov. 1, she visited the College of Liberal Arts to read from her essays and dissect them with the English Department's Creative Writing students.
She began by reading an essay titled Topography. The essay recounts a time in a Minnesota classroom when the teacher explained that everything around was once an ocean. Today,...
By: Nick Santangelo
"There is nothing normal about this election—in a good way!" proclaimed Political Science Chair and Professor Robin Kolodny last Friday.
The 2018 midterm election saw unusually high youth and general voter turnout for a non-presidential election year, Dr. Kolodny told Temple University College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students last Friday. The talk was the semester's final event of the History Department's weekly Teach-in series organized by Professor Ralph Young. Among other points, Dr. Kolodny identified five major takeaways to help students make...
By: Nick Santangelo
Fast-casual restaurants offer healthier, higher-quality meals than fast-food restaurants do without the sit-down service and expense of casual dining restaurants. For Temple University College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students, that translates to on-campus options like Crisp and Chipotle.
But for Erik Oberholtzer, CLA '91, there's more to it than that. Oberholtzer has built a fast-casual empire on the back of his passions for sustainability and investing in people. The CLA Psychology graduate is the founder of Tender Greens, a popular California-...
By: Nick Santangelo
Normally a quiet place reserved for near-silent study, Paley Library played host to a hip-hop concert on Tuesday afternoon. Or at least, the library's basement did. But despite the booming bass and impassioned reciting of lyrics, the library remained a place for students to expand their worldviews by learning something previously foreign to them.
That's because the concert was being put on by Amir Issaa, an Italian artist who often raps about his country's citizenship laws, which he views as outdated. Specifically, the law mandates that any Italian...
