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cover of Fashioning Japanese Subcultures and photo of Yuni Kawamura

Yuni Kawamura Holds Charity Show in Tokyo, Publishes Second Edition of Book

September 18, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of Sociology, has published a second edition of Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (Bloomsbury 2025) with three additional […]

Paul Clement and cover of Latin American Perspectives journal

Paul Clement Publishes Article on Grenada’s Revolution

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Paul C. Clement, PhD, professor of Economics and president-elect of the UCE of FIT, has published a new peer-reviewed study […]

This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

A Pioneering Exploration of Fashion-Exec Compensation

February 3, 2025 Kim Masibay Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

A book by Associate Professor Emre Özsöz, who teaches economics in the Department of Social Sciences, is slated to be […]

Cover of books Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora and Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflection in Art, Literature, and Film

New Anthologies Explore the Ideas of Home and Homeland

January 14, 2025 Kim Masibay Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Jean Amato, professor of English and Communication Studies, and Kyunghee Pyun, professor of Art History and Museum Professions, have co-edited […]

Chloe M. Martin Selected to Attend Scholarly Retreat

November 22, 2024 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Assistant Professor Chloe M. Martin, Social Sciences–Psychology, was recently selected to participate in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology […]