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Winter/Spring 2025

When Colleges Ignore Inequality

Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD ’16, discusses how elite universities are often unprepared to support students from economically diverse backgrounds they increasingly value, and offers a pathway to a more equitable future. 

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Winter/Spring 2025

Complex Recipe

The history of the Caribbean over the last 500 years is often portrayed as one of colonization versus liberation. In her new book, Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes of National Independence, Keja Valens, PhD ’04, looks at the region and its people through a more complex lens.

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Winter/Spring 2025

Reframing the Landscape

A writer and historian of art, film, and visual culture, Becca Voelcker looks underneath aesthetics to understand the politics, economics, and social history of extraction and change.

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Winter/Spring 2025

Gauging the "Pygmalion Effect”

Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, says an ancient myth lies at the core of a technology that is rapidly changing the way humans live and work: artificial intelligence.

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Winter/Spring 2025

Doing As the Romans Did

Gender complexity and instability are frequently mapped as a contemporary development and an import of the ideological left. Historian Ben Dunning, '05, says the truth is far more interesting: early Christian texts saw sexuality and gender not as givens but rather as thorny questions to think through. 

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Summer/Fall 2024

Paying It Forward

The members of the 2024 Centennial Medalist cohort—like those of the past 35 years—have defined excellence in their chosen fields.