Happy New Year! Welcome to the winter 2024 semester! I hope that you and your families and friends enjoyed the holidays. It is so exciting to welcome our faculty and students back to campus! Open up your calendars to plan on attending some of our outstanding College of Liberal Arts …
Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina was awarded an honorable mention honor for the 1921 Prize in American Literature for his essay, “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality.” “I’m grateful and wowed that my essay on Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ received an honorable mention …
Associate Professor and Department of English Chair Mary-Catherine Harrison published “Faculty Formation in the Jesuit and Mercy Traditions” in the latest issue of Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal. Co-written with colleagues Arthur Ko, associate professor in the College of Health Professions, and Jill Turner, library professor in the Detroit Mercy …
Detroit Mercy’s Rx for Reading Detroit has distributed more than 220,000 books to low-income children and families in Metro Detroit, since 2014. That’s more than two books for every young child in the city of Detroit. Now through the new year, donations will be matched twice by two loyal Rx …
Congratulations to all on such a successful fall 2023 semester! As we look to the new year, let’s take a moment, in the practice of radical hospitality, to consider our past to inform our present and plan for our future. This newsletter captures all three moments and does so using …
The College of Liberal Arts & Education, soon to be the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, continued its annual holiday celebration tradition for the College community. The pot-luck-style fare celebrated the diversity of foods and traditions of faculty and staff. The celebration included a performance by the University …
Launching in Winter 2024, a select group of students will represent the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences through a new program designed to connect prospective students to the University community. Focused on majors in the humanities, arts and social sciences, the initiative will employ current students to facilitate …
Nancy Calleja, professor and chair, Department of Counseling and Addiction Studies, is the principal investigator and project director of an $862,000 grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) awarded in September. The project is designed to expand the behavioral health workforce, providing enhanced specialized training to master’s level …
Communication Studies senior Jeremiah Steen will be one of 42 Michiganders to be honored at the 2023 Governor’s Service Awards held Nov. 28 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Steen will be among four other individuals receiving the Spirit of Hope Award which recognizes those who serve as a beacon of hope for many and one who lifts up others and inspires people to make a difference.
Diane Robinson-Dunn, associate professor of History, published a book chapter titled “Sultan Jahan and the Working Muslim Mission: Representing Islamic Femininity during the First World War” in Muslim Women in Britain, 1850-1950: 100 Years of Hidden History published by Oxford University Press, 2023
