Topics: Humanities

Prof. Susan Silbey says that advertisers have lots of power. Photo: Ed Quinn
Winter 2008

Power

Prof. Susan Silbey teaches an MIT course on power. What is it? Who has it? And how can you get it?

Prof. Emma Teng’s work on the intermarriage of East and West has particular appeal at a time when Asia and the West are becoming increasingly integrated both economically and culturally. Photo: Ed Quinn
Winter 2007

Bringing Us Together

Prof. Emma Teng works to promote mutual understanding among people and eliminate racial conflict.

Keith Hampton, an expert in the study of social networks and new technologies, says that rather than destroying community life, being wired actually helps people connect. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2004

Internet Connection

Asst. Prof. Keith Hampton says that rather than destroying community and family life, being wired actually helps people connect.

At 27, Junot Diaz’s book, Drown, a collection of short stories set both in Santo Domingo and New Jersey, caused a literary sensation. Now 34, Diaz is an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Writing, where he teaches creative writing and immigrant literature. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2003

Literary Sensation

At 27, Junot Diaz wrote his first book, Drown, a literary smash. Now, Diaz is an MIT associate professor teaching creative writing and immigrant literature.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower is helping Americans and Japanese better understand each other, showing how we are more alike than we are different. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2003

Connecting Cultures

Historian John Dower is helping Americans and Japanese better understand each other, showing us how we are more alike than we are different.

Prof. Peter Donaldson developed the MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive, where students get online access to a wealth of performance materials dating back to the 17th century. Part of the archive is available at shea.mit.edu/ramparts/ Photo: Ed Quinn
Summer 2003

Electronic Shakespeare

Literature Prof. Peter Donaldson has developed an online archive of prints and photographs that’s bringing Shakespeare to life.

Daniel Collarini, a Louisiana native who majors in history and biology at MIT, says:
Spring 1999

Drawing Us Together

Studying the humanities and social sciences enriches a technological education. It awakens the imagination, broadens the mind, and enables us to better understand not only ourselves, but each other.