Announcing new prize for Arts & Sciences faculty
The Program in Public Scholarship has announced its inaugural call for applicants for the Arts & Sciences Public Scholarship Prize. These awards will be given to selected Arts & Sciences faculty who are engaged in a public-facing project or want to increase the public impact of their research. This prize awards the recipient with $5,000 of research […]
Five Public Scholarship highlights from 2023
In 2023, the Program in Public Scholarship began its work of connecting WashU faculty with media outlets to share their academic expertise with broad, general audiences. The Program assisted faculty with conceiving, pitching, and refining articles for publication. Among the dozens of articles published this year through the Program in Public Scholarship, here is a selection of five […]
Q&A: Christopher Schaberg on Public Scholarship
The newly hired Director of Public Scholarship talks about finding new audiences, forging connections, and becoming an expert on airports. Christopher Schaberg is the newly hired Director of Public Scholarship for the Program in Public Scholarship (PPS). Kicking off his work in the Fall 2023 semester, Schaberg has hosted a series of workshops with faculty and […]
Wingfield elected president of American Sociological Association
Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor and vice dean for faculty development in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected the 116th president of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Wingfield will serve as president-elect for one year before succeeding Joya Misra, of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in August 2024. In […]