This question concerns authority in all senses - legal, moral, religious, scientific, political, aesthetic, journalistic. Investigations might ask about "power,” but also about whom we choose to trust to guide us in making decisions and forming beliefs. This question may open onto thinking about a more even distribution of "power" in a globalized world, but may also aim to rethink the very idea of authority in the past, present, and future.
Jeffrey Hass, professor of sociology, published “Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad” in the Russian Review and “Soviet Power and Civilian Agency in the First Months of World War II: the View from Leningrad” in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.
David Giancaspro, associate professor of Spanish, was awarded the Community-Engaged Teaching Award by the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the ninth annual Engage for Change Awards.
Kanji Kitamura, visiting assistant professor of Japanese, published “Does Culture Translate? A Case Study on Artificial Intelligence-Generated Text Concerning Japanese-Style Employment” in Cureus Journal of Business and Economics. The article contributes to the fields of cross-cultural management, intercultural communication, and translation studies.
Jeffrey Hass, professor of sociology, published “Violence as Capital: Violent capital and the case of social hierarchies” in Theory and Society.