Reed in the Media
New York Times features Reed in an article on the increased demand for financial aid; President Diver responds to the Times article; OPB gives the Oregon perspective
New York Times features Reed College in an article on admission trends during the economic downturn
My Abandonment, the latest novel by Reed's Peter Rock, has gained local and national attention in the Oregonian, NY Post, Newsday.
Oregonian Q&A with Reed’s Crystal Williams on
her third collection of poems, Troubled Tongues
The Oregonian review of "Suddenly" at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Early Voting has become a hot topic on the Presidential campaign trail, and Reed’s Paul Gronke is a leading expert in the field: read Paul’s latest contribution on CNNPolitics.com.
Oregon Council for the Humanities magazine features its Humanity in Perspective course. The course is taught by Reed professors, and helps low-income adults use the humanities to improve their lives.
Boston’s WBUR topical issues show, Here and Now, features Reed professor of political science Paul Gronke on the popularity of early voting.
Kimberly Clausing, Reed professor of economics, on how Wall Street's meltdown will impact the folks of Main Street on Marketplace.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, on early voting in the UK's The Guardian.
Reed dean of admission Paul Marthers on OPB’s Think Out Loud to discuss the rising cost of a college education.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, is quoted in the New York Times on the influence of early voting on campaign strategy in the presidential election.
The Oregonian on the City of Portland’s decision to include the Parker House in Reed’s amended master plan.
The Oregonian profiles "suddenly: where we live now" at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Ellen Millender, Reed associate professor of classics, shares her thoughts on the use of technology in the classroom for a New York Times article.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, and Reed’s Early Voting Information Center are part of a USA Today story on the upcoming presidential election.
Jeffrey A. Parker, Reed professor of economics, and Paul Marthers, Reed dean of admission, examine faculty pay equity at small liberal arts colleges for Academe.
Reed Dean of the Faculty Peter Steinberger appears on OPB's Think Out Loud to discuss Reed’s drug and alcohol policy.
2008 Reed graduate Lukas Strickland is featured in the Oregonian for being a recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship travel grant.
The Oregonian reviews Jess, an exhibition at Reed's Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Marat Grinberg, Reed Russian literature professor, comments in the New York Review of Books on the "problem of evil" in postwar Europe.
Brian Kassof, Reed visiting assistant professor of history and humanities, contributes to an OPB story on the origins of May Day.
Former President Bill Clinton responds on ABC News to the questioning of Hilary Clinton's campaign strategy by Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor.
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Reed College History and Humanities Professor Receives Stanford Fellowship
Benjamin Lazier explores humankind’s relationship to nature at the Stanford Humanities Center.
PORTLAND, OR (October 19, 2007) – Reed College assistant professor of
history and humanities Benjamin Lazier has been awarded a $55,000
fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center. In residence at
Stanford for the 2007-2008 academic year, he is examining the
twentieth-century revival of the ancient notion that natural organisms
are endowed with will, autonomy, and purpose.
Lazier notes that anxieties about the eclipse of the natural world by
the human-made world, of earth by artifact, pressed twentieth-century
thinkers to reimagine natural objects as subjects, as agents that act
upon human beings. Lazier’s project explores this reaction to modernity
in arguments about law, philosophy, politics, and biotechnology.
The Stanford Humanities Center, a research center devoted to the study
of human history and culture, awards about 30 fellowships each year to
historians, philosophers, anthropologists and other humanities
scholars. The fellows form a collaborative intellectual and social
community. “Our only obligations are to pursue our individual research
projects and to present our findings to one another,” Lazier said.
“It's a real honor for me, and I feel incredibly fortunate.”
A scholar of modern European intellectual history, Lazier holds a B.A.
from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of
California Berkeley. He has been a member of the Reed faculty since
2005. His book Redemption Through Sin: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
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