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Bill HolderEthan Kleinberg, professor of history and letters, will serve as the next director of the Center for Humanities (CHUM), beginning July 1, 2012. Rob Rosenthal, provost, vice president for Academic Affairs, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, made the announcement in Novemeber. Kleinberg has served Wesleyan as director of the College of Letters and director of the Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris. He is currently associate editor of History & Theory and will be assuming the role of executive editor in the coming year. Kleinberg's wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history, philosophy, comparative literature and religion. His current research interests…
Wesleyan welcomes several new employees to campus this fall. David Milch joined the Center for the Arts as a program coordinator for the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance on Sept. 12. Kimberly Alonzo was hired by the Mathematics and Computer Science Department as an administrative assistant on Oct. 5. Elizabeth Dagnall was hired by the Susan B. and William K. Wasch Center for Retired Faculty as an administrative assistant on Oct. 17. Paul Gagnon was hired by the Career Resource Center as an internship and civic engagement coordinator on Oct. 24. Richard Hodge was hired by the Public Safety…
David LowFranklin Sirmans ’91, the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2010, was recently named artistic director of Prospect.3, which is scheduled to open in October 2013. Prospect.3 is the premiere international biennial of contemporary art in the United States, featuring creative work by artists from New Orleans and around the globe. Sirmans will establish Prospect.3’s thematic structure, select the participating artists and projects, and collaborate with the biennial’s staff to situate the projects in suitable venues. Prospect. 2, an exhibit of works by 27 avant-garde international…
Cynthia RockwellRBC Capital Markets, the investment-banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada, hired Judith Fishlow Minter ’82 to co-head U.S. loan capital markets. Fishlow Minter, who will lead the New York-based business with Miguel Roman, joined RBC from North Sea Partners LLC, where she was a managing partner. Previously, she ran Citigroup Inc.’s loan syndicate for North America. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, RBC has climbed to 11th most-active underwriter of leveraged loans in the U.S. this year, from 15th in 2010. Fishlow-Minter was an economics major at Wesleyan. She also holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Kail ’99 will direct Magic/Bird, an upcoming Broadway play based on the relationship between basketball superstars Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, due to open on March 21. The work is produced by Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo who also produced Lombardi, the Broadway play about Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, which Kail also directed. The new production has a cast of six actors and contains 20 scenes lasting 90 minutes. The play will try to capture the energetic pace of a basketball game while covering a number of events in the lives of the two legendary players.…
In The Dance Claimed Me (Yale University Press), Peggy MALS ’77 and Murray Schwartz provide an intimate perspective on the life of Pearl Primus (1919–1994) who made her mark on the dance scene in 1943 with impressive works incorporating social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. Friends and colleagues of the dancer, the authors explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. The Schwartzes trace Primus’s journey from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was “Dance is a weapon"),…
The Hartford Courant reports that Joshua Borenstein ’97 has been the named the Long Wharf Theatre’s managing director after a national search. He will oversee a $5 million budget and a staff of 64 full-time employees. Borenstein held the job of interim managing director for the past six months and previously worked at the theater from 2003 to 2007 in several positions, most recently as associate managing director. For the last two years, he was project manager with the arts research firm, AMS in Fairfield. Before joining Long Wharf, he worked at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company through Theatre Communications Group’s’…
Black teenage girls are often negatively represented in national and global popular studies, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. These pervasive popular representations often portray Black adolescents’ consumer and leisure culture as corrupt, uncivilized, and pathological. In her insightful new study She’s Mad Real (New York University Press), Oneka LaBennett '94 draws on more than a decade of researching teenage West Indian girls in the Flatbush and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn to argue that Black youth are, in fact, strategic consumers of…