Professors of anthropology and linguistics argue that as both candidate and president, the president has tapped into what they call 鈥渘ostalgic racism鈥濃攏ostalgia for the pre-civil-rights, industrial-welfare-state America of the 1950s.
Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists鈥 personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
Professor Andrew Cowell and doctoral student Irina Wagner are part of an effort to save the Arapaho with the Arapaho Language Project. They fear Arapaho will fade away after the fluent elderly speakers are gone.
In 2011, 12 high-school girls in upstate New York began to exhibit strange neurological symptoms: tics, verbal outbursts, seizure-like activity and difficulty speaking. The diagnosis was 鈥渃onversion disorder.鈥