Richard Handler

Director, Program in Global Development Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia

  

~ Two Presentations ~

  

Richard Handler 

 

The Art of Interdisciplinarity - An Obermann Center Workshop

 

Monday, March 5

3:00 - 4:15, Obermann Center, 111 Church Street

  

A Conversation with Professor Richard Handler on Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Teaching 

  

We welcome graduate students and faculty members to join us for an informal discussion of approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and research with Professor Richard Handler.

  

Host:  The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Call 335.4034 or email [email protected] for more details.

 

 

 

Global Development Studies in a Liberal Arts Curriculum - Humanistic Approaches to Global Modernities

 

Wednesday March 7

4:00 - 5:30 pm, 1117 UCC (IP Commons)

 

Host: Department of Anthropology. Call 335.2496, or email [email protected] for more information.

 

 

About Professor Richard Handler

 

While colleges and universities encourage interdisciplinary research and teaching, we seldom discuss the nuts and bolts challenges of collaborative, interdisciplinary work. During his visit to the University of Iowa, Professor Richard Handler, Director of the Program in Global Development Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, will lead a discussion based on his career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator whose work cuts across the geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

 

Professor Handler's experience includes being director of an international program, former Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in nationalism; ethnicity and multiculturalism; museum studies; cultural criticism; and connections among anthropology, history, and literature. Even a few titles of his publications suggest the breadth of his interests: Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Societies (2005), The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg (with Eric Gable, 1997), Schneider on Schneider: The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories (1995), and The Fiction of Culture: Jane Austen and the Narration of Social Realities (with Daniel Segal, 1990. Rpt. 1999.) He has recently been awarded funding from the Jefferson Trust to support a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship for the Global Development Studies program. 

 

 

Professor Handler's visit to The University of Iowa is co-sponsored by: Department of Anthropology (CLAS), Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, International Programs, Center for Teaching, Department of History (CLAS), Department of English (CLAS), Museum Studies (CLAS), Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures (CLAS), and the Office of the State Archaeologist.