At Saint Louis University, researchers and scholars in the humanities are asking vital questions that help us better understand ourselves and our place in the world.
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我们是谁?? 我们为什么在这里? 作为一个社会,我们看重什么?
These are just a few of the topics researchers and scholars in the humanities are 在博彩网址大全铲球. These faculty members use an analytical, interpretative and historical approach to make sense of our world and our place in it.
“Could it be that, in the Word of God, there is a tolerance and maybe even an encouragement of diverse views,” said 鲁本罗萨里奥罗德里格斯博士.D., associate professor of theological 在博彩网址大全学习. “My research is an intentional engagement with that reality of a global 文化.”
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研究 in the humanities is a cornerstone of 博彩网址大全’s research enterprise.
“Science is so important, technology is very important, but we also critically need to understand why we have them," said 南希·贝尔,M.F.A., associate professor of theatre 在博彩网址大全. "What is a good thing to do with those things? 这就是人文学科 是为.”
研究 in the humanities is also 在 heart of the Jesuit education th在博彩网址大全 provides its students.
托丽·赫斯特博士.D., an associate professor of history 在博彩网址大全, studies the history of immigration policy in the United States to find ethical solutions to the problems 今天的.
“Looking at this early history helps us understand what deportation policy is doing today and how we can change it to make it operate better,” she said. “天主教 Church, the Jesuits, the University… have come out strongly supportive of my research.”
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The Jesuit mission, a concern for others and a desire to build a better world grounds 所有在博彩网址大全做的研究.
“One of the reasons I like being 在博彩网址大全 is because I feel like the mission [of 博彩网址大全] is essentially what my mission is, too,” said Dan Haybron, Ph.D.哲学教授. “There’s just much more openness to talk about 在这里,生活中最重要的是什么.”
菲利斯·韦利弗,医学博士.菲尔。., professor of English, is currently working with the Center for the Digital Humanities 在博彩网址大全 to digitize the manuscripts of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
“Part of what makes an inspiring classroom is having cutting-edge research, I’m extremely lucky of my colleagues because people are doing such exciting work.”
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Learn more about these five faculty members featured in this article and video:
- 南希·贝尔,M.F.A.,戏剧系副教授
Bell is the literary manager for 莎士比亚 Festival St. 路易和 莎士比亚在街头, which produces free 莎士比亚 theatre for the St. 路易社区. 莎士比亚 in the Streets is a response to the attitude th在atre is only for the elite. In 2018, 莎士比亚在街头 put on a production of Blow, Winds, Bell’s adaptation 《博彩网址大全》,为此 Bell was honored 在博彩网址大全's annual Scholarly Works reception. - 丹尼尔·海布伦博士.D.哲学教授
In 2015, Haybron was awarded a historic $5.1 million grant for a three-year project 题为 Happiness and Well-Being: Integrating 研究 Across Disciplines, which began to develop a new measure of happiness. Haybron也是 Happiness: A Very Short Introduction. - 托丽·赫斯特博士.D., Associate Professor, History
海丝特是 驱逐出境:美国的起源.S. 政策, which examines the federal government’s policies and practices regarding immigration 自1882年以来. Hester believes that looking at this history can help alleviate the present problems in the immigration system. In 2018, Hester was honored by the university 在 annual Scholarly Works reception 为了那本书. - 鲁本罗萨里奥罗德里格斯博士.D., Associate Professor, Theological Studies
Rodriguez is the director of the Mey Puleo Scholarship Program in Latin American Theology 和文化和作者 Christian Martyrdom and Political Violence. Rodriguez previously brought together the Society of Christian Ethics, the Society of Jewish Ethics, the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics – the first time in the history of those three institutions. - 菲利斯·韦利弗,医学博士.菲尔。.英语教授
Weliver is one of the Principal Investigators of Sounding Tennyson. 作为其中的一部分 project, Weliver traveled to Tennyson’s home in the Isle of Wight and recorded his 他客厅里的诗. She is currently working with the Center for the Digital Humanities 在博彩网址大全 to digitize the manuscripts of Tennyson. 韦利弗也是 Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism.