SAGES Fellow Vicki Daniel: Black Deaths Matter

Vicki Daniel, a SAGES Fellow who studies death rituals, has written Black Deaths Matter, an article for The Conversation which traces the history of how African Americans have memorialised the victims of slavery, and others killed by racial violence, through to the present day. "Commemoration is not an apolitical act....

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SAGES Fellow Bernie Jim wins Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Development

SAGES Fellow Dr. Bernie Jim has won the Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Development in this year’s Dr. Dorothy Pijan Student Leadership Awards. This award is given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to undergraduate and graduate student life outside of their teaching and research responsibilities. Nominations...

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Remote SAGES Class Uses Minecraft

The second half of Gabrielle Parkin's Medieval Robots SAGES course usually involves the construction of replicas of devices seen in medieval texts, using resources such as think. Teaching the course remotely made that impossible. It occurred to Dr Parkin that online games allowed people to meet up virtually, and to...

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