Events and Announcements
Announcing: The New England Film Premier of "Butte, America"
On campus at Brown University with Producer/Director Pamela Roberts and
Co-Producer/Co-Writer Edwin Dobb
(Location to be announced)
This documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, reveals the social and
environmental costs of mining in Butte, Montana. First in the 2009-10
series, "Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment,"
the film chronicles industrial exploitation and its effects on the
people and the land.
For more on the film: http://butteamericafilm.org/
About the series:
The "Nature and Legacy" series features films, lectures and panel
discussions on the environment, from the perspectives of humanists and
scientists alike. Future panel discussions will include topics such as
"Toxins," "Climate Change," and "The Loss and Return of Nature."
Check back soon for updates on speakers, panels, and more films!
Sponsored by:
The Committee on Science and Technology Studies, the Cogut Center for
the Humanities, the Center for Environmental Studies, the Environmental
Change Initiative, the John Nicholas Brown Center and the Urban Studies
Program at Brown University
Congratulations to the following graduate students on being awarded with external scholarships!
- Jessica Johnson, Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- Eric Larson, Wheaton College Teaching Fellowship
- Heather Lee, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
- Evangelina Mazaris, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
- Chung Nguyen, Harvard Yenching Fellowship
- Aiko Takeuchi, Japanese Government Fellowship
- Sarah Wald, Wheaton College/Cogut Fellowship
- Carlos Vaquez, Javits/Ford Foundation Fellowship
Welcome to our newest American Civilization department member!
Professor Rhacel Salazar Parreñas will join the faculty on July 1, 2008
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1998. She comes to Brown after five
years as a professor and associate professor of Asian American Studies at
the University of California, Davis and three years as an assistant
professor of Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Professor Parreñas is an internationally renowned scholar in women's labor,
migration, the family, and globalization, speaking on these topics to
audiences throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. She has held
numerous postdoctoral and visiting positions, including in 2005 a position
as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. Her
research on migrant women workers has garnered international attention
having been featured in the Wall Street Journal, American Prospect and
produced into an award-winning documentary The Chain of Love by VPRO-TV in
the Netherlands. Her writings, which include three books, and more than 25 journal articles
and book chapters, have been translated and published in French, Korean,
Japanese, Italian, and German.