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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Costica Bradatan as Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Costica Bradatan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He …
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Mattern as Kluge Chair in Modern Culture. Mattern began her time at the Kluge Center in January. Shannon Mattern is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of …
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Posted by: Sophia Zahner
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy Greene as Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Greene began his time at the Kluge Center in January 2024. Greene, MD, PhD, is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Director of the Department of …
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Jacob Berkowitz The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacob Berkowitz as Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. Berkowitz will begin his time at the Kluge Center this October. Berkowitz is the author of three science-based books, including …
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Posted by: Sophia Zahner
It started with a sneeze, or so we thought. Since the 1950s, film historians counted “The Sneeze” from 1894 as the earliest surviving film copyrighted in the United States. At this time, the film began being shown as a motion picture after being copied back to film from a photograph. Claudy Op den Kamp, a …
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Posted by: Sophia Zahner
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Timothy Frye as the Library of Congress Chair in US-Russia Relations. Frye began his time at the Kluge Center in January. Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science …
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Deepak Nayyar as Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South. Nayyar began his time at the Kluge Center this September. Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Honorary …
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie Wood as Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas. Wood will begin her time at the Kluge Center this October. Wood is the Director and Research Associate at …
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Sophia Rosenfeld as Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North. Rosenfeld began her time at the Kluge Center this September. Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches …
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