Researcher Measures How Monolingual Adults Process Foreign Accents
Whether you’re in the New York City subway, at the gym, or at the doctor’s…
Faculty Profiles
How Transnational Surrogacy Challenges Ideas of Parenthood and Race
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have made childbearing possible for millions of people for whom parenthood…
Creating Character: New Denzel Washington Chair Gets to the Heart of the Matter
Sculptors have clay; musicians have instruments; painters have brushes; and actors have their pasts. “I…
Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas
(Editor’s note: In February 2018, Miki published the results of her research below as Frontiers of…
New Book Takes Issue with Conquistadors’ Version of the Fall of the Aztecs
The ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan was a thriving metropolis during the 16th century. With a…
“Beauty Is Beastly”: Attractiveness and Success Can Hurt Your Chances of Getting a Loan, Researcher Says
Imagine being able to secure a financial loan without having to ask for help from…
“In the Name of the Mother?” Theologian Unearths Female Language for God in Traditional Interpretations of Scripture
“In the name of the Mother, and of the Daughter, and of the Holy Spirit.…
In African Churches’ Mass Media Use, a Glimpse of a Changing Global Christianity
When she first went to Ghana as a graduate student, Kimberly Casteline found a society…
Pastoral Counseling and Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain to Lower Stress and Anxiety
If Jesus were a neuroscientist, talk of “plasticity” might have made the final cut of…
How We Hear Influences Who We Are, Sound Scholar Finds
The sound of a New York City subway roaring beneath an apartment building at night…