Projects

Using food trucks as a frame, "New Haven Food Routes" seeks to investigate the diversity of New Haven's cultural palette. The project was realized using three distinct yet intertwined mediums: ethnographic filming, interactive mapping, and a website platform for digital archiving.

Professor Josh Kun, USC (http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/communication-journalism/josh-kun) presents his work on popular music and Jewish American identity at the New Haven Free Public Library, 2008.

This group exhibition recognizes the 50th anniversary, local histories and lasting legacies of the trial of Black Panther Party chairman, Bobby Seale, New Haven chapter founder, Ericka Huggins, and seven other party members. While Seale and Huggins were acquitted of the murder of Panther member Alex Rackley, the 1970 case shook the city and exposed deep inequities in the legal system and wider social structures.

Poet Robert Viscusi reads from “Ellis Island” and “An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus” at the New Haven Free Public Library on Columbus Day, 2008. In two parts.

Poet Robert Viscusi reads from “Ellis Island” and “An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus” at the New Haven Free Public Library on Columbus Day, 2008. In two parts.

In this episode of Teach Better,  Cyra Levenson from the Yale Center for British Art and Matt Jacobson, Professor of American Studies, History, and African-American Studies at Yale, talk about incorporating real artifacts and works of art into your teaching. Specifically, we talk about why you might want to do such a thing, and how you can get started doing it.

In this gallery, educators from many walks of academic life--professors, deans, presidents, staff members--reflect on the tattered and contested state of the academic mission in an age of scarcity, neoliberal austerity, mounting student debt, corporate management and administrative structures, and amid the ever-increasing power and influence of non-educators in the halls of university administration.

An inter-disciplinary dance work exploring history, blood memory, and the traces of an ancestral past, The Geneva Project examines what is hidden and what is revealed, by bringing light to that which was once buried.