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Join Dan Oppenheimer of the latest “Into the COLAverse: Office Hours” who talks with Professor Aldama about his comic book odyssey, including his recently published Pyroclast and forthcoming Through Fences, The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez, and The Steampunkera Chronicles. 

Art Markman, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing, shares his journey first finding his way to a cognitive science degree at Brown, a PhD at University of Illinois, the publishing of numerous books and innovating new cross-disciplinary learning spaces within and outside the classroom. […]

Faegheh Shirazi, professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, shares her journey from Iran to the US and the path that led to her research and teaching on the policing, marketing, and creative consumption of clothing, textiles, and food within and beyond Muslim societies. 

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, professor in the School of Journalism, and founder of Voces Oral History Center, shares her journey from growing up in Devine, Texas, to earning journalism BA and MA degrees at UT Austin, as well as a PhD from UNC, Chapel Hill. These and years of […]

Jo Hsu, professor in the Rhetoric and Writing, shares their journey from a love of storytelling and fiction reading as a child to an MFA in writing and PhD in Rhetoric at Penn State. Along the way we learn of the power of story to open us to new ways of seeing and experiencing the world—to […]

Rebecca Falkoff, professor in the Department of French and Italian, shares her journey from an undergrad studying Faust, literary theory, and languages at UPenn to a PhD in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. Along the way we learn of her rich and expansive research and writing on hoarding—from 19th century Parisian flea markets to Sherlock […]