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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
The Kluge Center is very pleased to welcome Michael Auslin into residence as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. A historian by training, Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and previously was an associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning Negotiating with …
Posted in: General News, Government, History
Posted by: Sophia Zahner
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 …
Posted in: Government, Media & Communications, Uncategorized
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
On May 4, 2024, the John W. Kluge Center hosted the lawyers, researchers, and other staff who, in 1974, considered the question of whether sufficient evidence existed to impeach President Richard Nixon. They gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of that momentous event. Many were at the beginning of their careers. They took on the …
Posted in: Culture & Society, General News, Government, History, Law
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Amanda Escotto. Escotto is a 2023 Kluge Center summer intern where she works with Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance Michael Jones-Correa in his research on social interaction and civic engagement of undocumented immigrants. She is a Master of Public Administration Candidate at the State University of New …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, Government, History, Media & Communications
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 …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Digital Revolution, General News, Government, Media & Communications, United States, Visual & Performing Arts
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 …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, Government, Politics, United States
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a post by Kevin Butterfield, Director of the John W. Kluge Center. One of the more remarkable coincidences of my professional life happened on September 12, 2022, when I arrived for my first day of work at the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress as the new Director of the John W. …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, General News, Government, History, Media & Communications, Politics, Sociology, United States
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. Wickham is the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress and Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University. Can one be both a religious person and a humanist? If so, what kind of worldview might this entail? Together …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Ethics & Morality, Government, History, Media & Communications, Philosophy, Religion, United States
Posted by: Janna Deitz
Now, more than ever, vast amounts of digital information are instantly available to the public. And yet, accessing digital information and online services remains a challenge for those in areas without high-speed internet access. In this interview, Ann Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina and current Kluge Fellow, explained the …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Government, Media & Communications, Politics, Sociology, United States