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With the passing of the internationally respected theological ethicist and emeritus faculty member James M. Gustafson on Jan. 15, the world lost “a towering scholar,” says former Emory President James T. Laney, who led the university’s efforts to recruit him in the late 1980s. Gustafson came to Emory to lead the Luce Seminars, groundbreaking interdisciplinary seminars that not only had a lasting impact on Emory faculty but became a model for other universities.  A native of Michigan, Gustafson was the son of a minister. After receiving a BS from Northwestern University and a BD from Ch...

History Museum receives county grant for redesign of exhibition Courtesy of Los Altos History Museum Collection As evident in Miss Lamb’s fifth-grade class photo taken at Los Altos Grammar School in 1929, a large population of residents in the area were of Japanese descent. They were forced into internment camps during World War II. The History Museum’s new permanent exhibition personalizes the experiences through oral memoirs and photographs of local residents. The Los Altos History Museum is embarking on a reimagining of its permanent exhibition, with help from a $175,000 grant fr...

‘From Black Power to BLM: Reimagining Dr. King’s Dream’ The Stanford community is invited to attend a virtual event in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., including a panel discussion and a video tribute to Clayborne Carson, the Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford. By Kathleen J. Sullivan The Stanford community is invited to attend a virtual event in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. that will also honor Clayborne Carson, a history professor who has devoted most of his professional life to the study of King a...

Daniel McNeil 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Daniel McNeil is an award-winning writer and Professor whose work brings together History, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, and other fields of inquiry to map the movement of people and ideas within, across, against and outside the nation-state. Following the publication of McNeil’s Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic – a book that disrupts the regimes of representation that have framed ‘mixed-race’ subjects as pathological objects and ‘post-raci...