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Category: School of Liberal Arts

Jennifer Babcock behind a podium; banner flags outside a conference

Jennifer Babcock Speaks to Egyptologists About Diversity

August 23, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, adjunct assistant professor, History of Art, presented her paper, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access: How Local Communities […]

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Fall 2023 convocation in Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, audience, with Yasemin Jones at the podium

Meet FIT’s 24 New Faculty Members

August 21, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, School of Graduate Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

For fall 2023, FIT welcomed 24 new classroom and non-classroom faculty members. Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Yasemin Jones […]

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Life and Death on India’s Yamuna River

August 14, 2023 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

For thousands of years, the Yamuna River has been considered one of the most sacred bodies of water in Vedic […]

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Yuniya Kawamura

What Japan Can Learn About Black Hairstyles

May 22, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor of Sociology Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura recently contributed an article to Nikkei, Japan’s largest economic-focused daily paper. The commentary, “Teaching/Learning […]

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Erica Moretti

Erica Moretti Wins Preeminent Award for Italian Scholars

May 15, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Erica Moretti, assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, has been awarded the Rome Prize […]

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Studying Iran’s Feminist Revolution

April 10, 2023 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Diversity, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

For generations, women’s rights have been restricted in Iran. As recent political tensions have grown, so have the restrictions. Women’s […]

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Grid of 16 multicolored squares

Turning Waste Cooking Oil Into Soap? It’s Possible

March 27, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Many a home cook has struggled with the question of what to do with used cooking oil—to say nothing of […]

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Book covers of Cultural Appropriation and Fashion-ology,

Faculty Books Examine Cultural Appropriation, Contemporary Fashion

March 13, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Yuniya Kawamura and Jung-Whan (Marc) de Jong, both Social Sciences, recently published a book on the thorny and timely question […]

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Theanne Schiros standing with students in classroom

Theanne Schiros Is on a ‘Mission Unstoppable’

January 23, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

CBS-TV’s Mission Unstoppable, which focuses on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and is shown on Saturday mornings and […]

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Deborah Berhanu holds a sphere in front of a projector during a presentation

FIT-Barnard Collaboration Challenges Students to Make Art with Code

January 17, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, Innovation, School of Liberal Arts, Students

FIT, like the creative industries it serves, thrives on collaboration. One professor took that to an entirely new level with […]

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Wed 04

FIT Library Special Collections and College Archives Welcome Wednesdays

October 4 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month Safety and Resource Fair

October 5 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mon 09

Talking Trade at FIT: WITA on Career Pathways Panel

October 9 at 3:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Tue 10

Civility Week 2023

October 10
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Fashion Culture: Color in Indigenous Textiles

October 10 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

THE MUSEUM AT FIT

dress made to look like a Hershey's chocolate barFood & Fashion on Display Through Nov. 26

The exhibition explores how food themes and motifs are used to comment on critical topics from luxury, gender, and consumerism to sustainability, social activism, and body politics. More details

FROM THE SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN BLOG

“ROPA PINTADA” BY DEBORAH KRUGER (FORM BASED ON TUNIC-LIKE HUIPIL FROM CHIAPAS AND GUATEMALA)
“Ropa Pintada,” by Deborah Kruger.

Flight Patterns

Internationally recognized artist and alumna Deborah Kruger credits FIT for the textile and design influences in her feathered works that will soon be touring across the U.S. Read more

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