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Global Education Beyond the Classroom: Engaging the World through Scholarship

For many years, I have challenged myself to advocate for global education and international studies across the world. I have read many books, travelled on my own, and…

Enjoy Your Life

Hong Kong is a prosperous and fast-paced city. Last month, i went to Peng Chau, which is an outlying island, to get away from the stress of the…

Scotland the Brave and The Flower of Scotland: A Wee Moment with Huge Impact

We tend to remember “firsts” in our lives. Hopefully we recognize the importance and value of experiences as we live through them. My first travel overseas was as…

Parts Unknown, or How a Great Mind Taught Us to Be Better

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom … is realizing how small…

The Great Gatsby, Revisited

When asked what my favorite book is, I often quickly answer with The Great Gatsby. I first read The Great Gatsby in 2009 in my 10th Grade English class and…

Learning to Differentiate

I grew up in suburban Ohio and I knew from an early age that I wanted to experience more of the world than the mall. In high school,…

One Ship Connects Generations

On the morning of March 17, 2008, I called my grandmother as I was getting ready to board the Queen Mary. I remember telling her – “I am…

Le Magic School Bus

No, it wasn’t the real Magic School Bus from the books and TV. But one of my most poignant humanities moments did happen on a bus. And I…

Bite Me!- A Florida Humanities Moment

People frequently talk about being haunted. Usually by spirits, both by the friendly Casper types and the decidedly less friendly Poltergeist types. Sometimes people are haunted by bad…

Day of the Living Dead

As someone with a profound interest in and curiosity about death culture, I was very excited when visiting family last summer I had the opportunity to visit several…

Finding Meaning Under the Stars

I have always loved space. This love is why I earned an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering. Fittingly, stargazing with friends was one of my favorite, albeit infrequent,…

Bright Sun Before Nightfall

Late this spring, my foster dog Sally unexpectedly died. I should’ve known she had cancer, but I not a veterinarian, and I didn’t think to apply Occam’s razor…

This is the Ocean

I rented Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals from the library, at a time in my life when I was searching inwards and exploring my beliefs. I would listen…

Fictional Diaries and Archives

My humanities moment happened when I read a book for school written in the form of a diary. Even though it was fiction, it showed me how diaries…

GROUP and Individual: Cultivating Spaces of Expression

In preparation for teaching online during the 2021 summer semester, I have been thinking about how much group discussions are transformed by digital platforms. In reflecting on the…

Humanities Moment(s)

During my hours of online teaching this year, I have repeatedly tried to bring myself back to my first encounters with the Humanities classroom. As an enthusiastic first-year…

I Write Therefore I am

I have been writing in notebooks ever since I was young. In elementary school I wrote stories about the adventures of characters I’d imagined after watching and reading…

Naughty Kitty

My humanities moment comes from a cartoon by American B. Kliban. My mother had a kitchen towel with the image on it, and it had been in my…

The Raisin’s Sojourn

When I was small I loved to lay on the floor with my cheek pressed against the course green carpet. To observe how the tiny green fibers meshed…

The Library

Growing up outside Atlanta, Georgia, my dad and I would spend hours at the local library, requesting and checking out the full limit of books allowed. We often…