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For questions or to discuss further,please contact:
Kevin Wagner, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity,
Associate; Professor, Political Science
Boca Campus (AH 214D) | kwagne15@fau.edu

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Media Lab Grant

November 2024

Top Story: , a community journalism initiative in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative aimed at revitalizing local news and strengthening communities. MediaLab@FAU was launched in September 2023 by Ilene Prusher, senior instructor of multimedia journalism. It’s been estimated that MediaLab’s articles reached upward of 25 million people based on potential online exposure of its articles in its first year.

Research Thursdays Archive

“Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability” by Gerald Sim
Research Thursdays - “Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability” by Gerald Sim
September 10, 2020
Book reveals how postcoloniality manifests stylistically in films
“Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law” by S. Marek Muller
Research Thursdays - “Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law” by S. Marek Muller
September 03, 2020
Book evaluates the rhetoric of animal rights activists Steven Wise and Gary Francione, as well as the Earth jurisprudence paradigm.
Lotus Seeley, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology
Research Thursdays - Lotus Seeley Receives American Sociological Association Award
August 27, 2020
The award is presented annually to the best sociological journal article on the topic of sex and gender
Mehmet Gurses, Professor of Political Science
Research Thursdays - Mehmet Gurses Explores the Social and Political Legacies of Conflict
August 20, 2020
”Anatomy of a Civil War: SociopoliticalImpacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey” (University of Michigan Press, 2018) by Mehmet Gurses
Emmanouil Vermisso, Associate Professor, School of Architecture
Research Thursdays - Emmanouil Vermisso, School of Architecture, receives Greek Diaspora Fellowship
August 13, 2020
The award will support Vermisso’s doctoral research of “Generative Design Processes in Architectural Education”
Image (left): Still frame from SIN BIN | FIRST STUDY | THE GRIM REAPER (2018) a film by Shane Eason
Research Thursdays - Shane Eason Receives South Florida Cultural Consortium Award
August 06, 2020
These awards are granted annually to preeminent South Florida artists
Hugh T. Miller
Research Thursdays - “Narrative Politics in Public Policy: Legalizing Cannabis” by Hugh T. Miller
July 30, 2020
New book takes a narrative approach to studying public policy and administration
Yolanda Gamboa, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish
Research Thursdays - Yolanda Gamboa Awarded the 2020 Vern Williamsen Comedia Book Prize
July 23, 2020
The Williamsen Prize is awarded to a current member of the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater for an outstanding academic book published in the past three years
Jane Caputi, Ph.D.
Research Thursdays - New book by Jane Caputi, Ph.D., professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
July 16, 2020
New book confronts a new geological age where humans are said to be the dominant force of change on the planet
School of Architecture Leads Initiative to Mass Produce PPE
Research Thursdays - School of Architecture Leads Initiative to Mass Produce PPE for Frontline Workers
July 09, 2020
Community Foundation of Broward Grant will allow Jeffrey Huber, AIA, Interim Director of the School of Architecture, and faculty to mass produce face shields