Humanities Now

Alumni College Fellows I: New Perspectives on History and Society

February 26, 2021 The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Season 1 Episode 5
Humanities Now
Alumni College Fellows I: New Perspectives on History and Society
Show Notes

As we come back from winter break, we begin a new sequence of episodes featuring the research of our 2020-2021 Alumni College Fellows.  Between now and May, we have arranged our twelve scholars into four audio panels, all speaking under the broad banner “New Perspectives on…”  For our February installment, the topic is “New Perspectives on History and Society,” and we hear from historian Richard Lutjens on "ordinary crime" in Nazi Germany, sociologist Ori Swed on drone technology and violent non-state actors, and musicologist Virginia E. Whealton on nineteenth-century musical culture in Norfolk, Virginia.