As a Hispanic kid growing up in Storm Lake, Iowa, Matthew Marroquín had no concept of race.
I just knew that if I go over to this friends house, I say hello to their mother in this way, and if I go to a different friends house, I had to learn sabaideebor for Laos, or xin chào for Vietnamese.
Dr. Jordan A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of Art History (recently promoted to Associate Professor), is a specialist of African Art History, with an emphasis on the visual and performed expression of Nigerian masquerade arts. At Miami, Fenton teaches introductions on non-Western art and courses and seminars exploring Africa and its Diaspora.
President Biden has nominated Myaamia Center Executive Director Daryl Baldwin a leader in Native American language and cultural revitalization to the National Council on the Humanities, the White House announced Wednesday.
Dr. Douglas Coffin, professor in the Chemical, Paper and Biomedical Engineering department, recently won the 2021 William H. Aiken Prize for Research and Development, the TAPPI Journal Best Research Paper Award and the Paper Science & Engineering Foundation (PSEF) Miami Partnership Award.
