The course offers students an introduction to researching with visual materials, content analysis and cultural analytics, visual discourse methods, making images as research data, using images to disseminate research findings, research ethics, and visual methods.
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to key landmarks in the visual history of environmentalism from the 18th century to the recent past across a variety of linked geographic regions focusing both on images of nature and on the nature of images.
This course visits some of the groundbreaking TV series that presented humanities and sciences to global mass audiences in the 1960s and 1970s, when color television emerged as a cultural presence. We study the role of television as a still new and potentially disruptive medium, and examine works of art Read more…
This course examines the ways in which science and technology are shaped by and in turn help constitute various notions of gender, defined intersectionally to include race, sexuality, and class, among other axes.
This course explores changing uses of visual media (drawings, etchings, sketches, photographs, diagrams, X Ray images, computer-generated images, film, social media) in the life sciences and medicine from the late Renaissance to the present day.
Wax figures have been around for centuries and were very popular around the western world prior to mass media. I was interviewed on the Jobsolete podcast (iHeartRadio) about the wax sculptors who brought celebrities and others to life. “Wax was used over the centuries… for death masks, for making wax Read more…
In the 18th century, “balloon mania” swept across Europe, encouraged by the circulation of writings, lithographs, balloon fashion, and memorabilia. I spoke on the Jobsolete podcast about aeronauts—the adventurers, entertainers, and self-trained scientists who built and flew balloons.
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