st<\/sup> annual Honors Colloquium on \u201cDemocracy in Peril,\u201d brought to 溏心vlog免费B站 an array of experts\u2014a poet and memoirist, artist, librarian, historians and public humanities practitioners\u2014to address some of the greatest threats facing democracy in the nation today, while providing a perspective on how the arts and humanities can offer pathways to democratic engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt worked really well for the Center for the Humanities and the Honors Program to support each other in presenting a year of programming that engaged with the critical question of democracy from both a political perspective and an arts and humanities perspective,\u201d said Evelyn Sterne, director of the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cowie, the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, studies the effect of class, inequality and labor on American politics and culture. His discussion will follow several historical trends\u2014weakness of American liberal institutions, erosion of working-class power, nostalgic rage to reclaim a \u201cgolden age,\u201d and an unstable global political order\u2014and how they\u2019ve converged to create the current political moment in the U.S. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow his presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cProfessor Cowie brilliantly exemplifies the power of history to interpret and engage with the contemporary world,\u201d said Sterne. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that he has agreed to come to 溏心vlog免费B站 to help us understand how the past informs the present moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cowie was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2023 for \u201cFreedom\u2019s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power,\u201d which follows the evolution of white supremacy in an Alabama county in the 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> centuries and reveals the relationship between anti-government and racist ideologies. The New York Times called the book \u201cimportant, deeply affecting\u2014and deeply relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe is also the author of \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,\u201d winner of the Parkman Prize and the Merle Curti Award, along with \u201cThe Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics,\u201d and \u201cCapital Moves: RCA\u2019s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor,\u201d winner of the Philip Taft Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cowie\u2019s talk will also serve as the keynote talk for the humanities center\u2019s annual spring festival, which will include the presentation of humanities excellence awards to Katelyn Boss and Wanda Hopkins, who will receive the undergraduate and graduate excellence awards, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boss \u201925, a senior majoring in history and art with minors in German and gender and women\u2019s studies, is a member of multiple honor societies and received the Dr. Barbara Woods Memorial Award for Excellence in German Studies. She has made many contributions to the humanities on campus and off in her time at 溏心vlog免费B站, including working on the College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 75th<\/sup> anniversary celebration and in the 溏心vlog免费B站 University Archives. She has also interned at the South County Museum and volunteers as an archivist for the Rhode Island Wanderground Lesbian Archive and Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHopkins, who will graduate this May with a master\u2019s degree in English, has also demonstrated an exceptional commitment to the humanities. A member of the Narragansett Tribal Nation, she has served as chair of the Tomaquag Museum and is a member of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Native American Advisory Council. She has also acted as guest editor of Motif Magazine\u2019s 2024 Indigenous Heritage edition and organized the 2024 Poetry of the Wild workshop for the Rhode Island Environmental Education Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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