Meet FIT’s 24 New Faculty Members
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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Category: School of Liberal Arts
Life and Death on India’s Yamuna River
For thousands of years, the Yamuna River has been considered one of the most sacred bodies of water in Vedic […]
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What Japan Can Learn About Black Hairstyles
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 Wins Preeminent Award for Italian Scholars
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
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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Turning Waste Cooking Oil Into Soap? It’s Possible
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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Faculty Books Examine Cultural Appropriation, Contemporary Fashion
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 Is on a ‘Mission Unstoppable’
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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FIT-Barnard Collaboration Challenges Students to Make Art with Code
FIT, like the creative industries it serves, thrives on collaboration. One professor took that to an entirely new level with […]
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Kyunghee Pyun Describes How Korean Fashion Went Global at GWU Colloquium
History of Art Associate Professor Kyunghee Pyun delivered a talk about modern Korean fashion as part of a daylong symposium […]
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