Jason Loviglio
Professor
Media and Communication Studies
Smart Speaker as Cassandra
This project draws critical attention to a lively, if overlooked, narrative preoccupation rippling through audio fiction about the role that home-based “smart” appliances play in re-shaping the dynamics of gendered work, domestic power relations, and corporate surveillance.
Brian Van Wyck
Assistant Professor
History
Making Turks, Making Muslims: Islam, Education, and Turkish Migration in the Federal Republic Germany, 1961-2006
The manuscript traces ideas about Turkishness and Islam between Turkey and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from the 1960s to the 1990s. It centers on teachers and imams from Turkey who served the substantial Turkish-origin population in the FRG.