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unusual facts about cultural studies


Nadarajah Selvarajah

In 1983 he became the Chief Librarian at the Evelyn Rutnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies affiliated to the Jaffna College.


Galton's problem

Galton’s problem, named after Sir Francis Galton, is the problem of drawing inferences from cross-cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon now called autocorrelation.

Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences

They publish research in Children's Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, English Education and Pedagogy, Linguistics/TESOL, Literary and Cultural Studies, Publishing, and Technical Writing.

Jon Stratton

Jonathon, or Jonathan, (Jon) Stratton is an Australian academic currently serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer

Jiménez-Balaguer’s work shares certain core values intrinsic to the field of Cultural studies and the theoretical struggle of intellectuals such as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alexis Virginie Jimenez, Judith Butler.

Martina Pippal

Martina Pippal's scholarly approach to the History of Visual Media is strongly relying on the methodology of cultural studies combined with iconology, and stylistic analysis in the tradition of the Vienna School of Art History.

Open University in the Netherlands

The Open Universiteit offers fully accredited Bachelor or Master degree programmes in Law, Economics, Business and Public administration, Engineering, Environmental science, Cultural studies, Psychology and Education.


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Ahmed Majdalani

Majdalani is a professor of philosophy and cultural studies for Birzeit University located north of Ramallah.

Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun

She worked as a research scholar at the Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies at Kyoto University, and is currently a professor at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu.

Alexander Tzonis

In the framework of DKS, Tzonis and his collaborators, among them Donald Schön, investigated design creativity, analogy in design, (Nan Fang, B. S. Inanç), design biases, (Philip Bay Joo-Hwa), collaborative design, (Hoang Ell Jeng), and cross-cultural studies on design methods (Xiaodong Li, Li Yu,) producing articles, a textbook, co-authored with Ian White Automation Based Creative Design (Elsevier, 1994).

Caroline Edelstam

She graduated in 1995 from the Institute for International Education (IIU) after study at London South Bank University and the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and in 2000 graduated from the American University in Paris after studying International Corporate Communications, Art History, Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture, and European Cultural Studies.

Centre for South Estonian Language and Cultural Studies

The centre coordinates and organizes linguistic and cultural studies in the historical South Estonian (Võro, Seto, Mulgi and Tartu) area.

Cross-cultural

Cross-influences between anthropology and literary/cultural studies in the 1980s were evident in works like James Clifford and George Marcus's collection, Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986).

Culture

This emerges in the writings of early British cultural-studies scholars and their influences: see the work of (for example) Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, and Paul Gilroy.

Deborah Gregory

She graduated in 1986 with a BS in Cultural Studies from Empire State College (Metropolitan Center, NYC).

Dudley L. Poston, Jr.

While at Texas A&M Poston also serves as Guest Professor of Demography at the People's University in Beijing, China; Guest Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; and Adjunct Professor of Demography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.

Grossarl

Anton Sauter (1800–1881), Botanist and Doctor, brother of Ferdinand Sauter, founder of the corporation of Salzburgs regional and cultural studies

H.U.N.E.

H.U.N.E. is based at the Institute of Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Henry Giroux

In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Jim W. Corder

As a result of his writing style, Corder is often associated with scholars like Peter Elbow and other so-called “expressivists,” who were largely dismissed by many scholars in the discipline during the social turn of the late 1980s, as rhetoric and composition professionals began exploring critical theory and cultural studies and their connections to rhetorical theory and composition pedagogy.

Kenneth Womack

In addition to his work as novelist, Womack is the author and editor of three books devoted to The Beatles, including Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006; with Todd F. Davis), Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named by The Independent as the 2009 Music Book of the Year.

Keola Beamer

His great grandmother was Helen Desha Beamer, an influential songwriter and hula dancer, and his mother, Winona Beamer ("Auntie Nona") has been one of the most important figures in the revival of Hawaiian culture since the 1940s: composer, dancer, educator, and coiner of the term "Hawaiiana," which describes the cultural-studies area she pioneered at the Kamehameha Schools.

Mani Haghighi

Haghighi was educated at Appleby College, Ontario, then received a B.A. in philosophy, from McGill University, 1991, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Guelph, 1997 and an M.A. in cultural studies from Trent University, 2000.

Meinhof

Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, professor and Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Bradford

Michael E. Harkin

In 2011 he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and in 2007 he was a visiting professor at Shanghai University.

Paul Bové

Bové also holds affiliations with the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Valencia in Spain and the Centre for International Political Studies in Pretoria, South Africa.

Rhoda Bubendey Métraux

Rhoda Bubendey Metraux (1914–2003), was a prominent anthropologist in the area of cross-cultural studies, specializing in Haitian voodoo and the Iatmul of New Guinea.

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Robert Tally

Tally received his M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in critical and cultural studies from the University of Pittsburgh, a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, and an A.B. (philosophy) from Duke University.

S. Chandrasekaran

Chandrasekaran obtained his doctorate in cross-cultural studies in Performance Art from Curtin University in 2007.

Tatyana Apraksina

In 1998, in the building of the Twelve Collegia, Saint Petersburg State University's Center for Contemporary Art held a retrospective exhibit drawn from Apraksina's body of work in parallel with her "March Solo" festival, organized in partnership with the Center for Cultural Studies at the university's department of philosophy.

Technological determinism

Media and cultural studies theorist Brian Winston, in response to technological determinism, developed a model for the emergence of new technologies which is centered on the Law of the suppression of radical potential.