Honors Faculty
Heartfelt Gratitude for Honors Core Faculty Chesser
Gratitude for Chesser’s Commitment to Our Community Professor Melissa Chessher, professor and chair, magazine, news and digital journalism department ends her tenure as Honors Core Faculty Member this academic year. Professor Chessher has taught and mentored numerous Honors students during their academic journeys, including this year’s Overall Thesis Prize recipient Elizabeth Kauma, for her project,…
Read MoreHonors Welcomes Harriet Brown to Core Faculty
Honors Welcomes Harriet Brown to Core Faculty The Honors Program is delighted to welcome Harriet Brown, Professor, Magazine, News and Digital Journalism and Co-director, Fashion and Beauty Communications Milestone, to the Honors Core Faculty. Brown teaches the innovative and popular course, Fat and Feminism. The course examines the intersecting frameworks of weight and feminism through…
Read MoreA Joyful Convocation Celebrates Honors Graduates
A Joyful Convocation Celebrates Honors Graduates Members of the Honors community, Honors core faculty, esteemed deans and family and friends happily celebrated the graduation of nearly 170 Honors graduates in the class of 2022 on Friday, May 13th at the annual Honors Convocation in Hendricks Chapel. The graduates individually crossed the stage as their thesis…
Read MoreBurak Receives Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award
Burak Receives Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award The Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award is conferred on individual students, faculty or staff who—by virtue of extraordinary hard work, good values and commitment to excellence—embody the best of Syracuse University. This year’s recipients are Patricia Burak, part-time instructor of Russian literature in the College of Arts and Sciences and…
Read MoreCan Responsible Journalism Shape Climate Change?
Can Responsible Journalism Shape Climate Change? For his Honors thesis, Gaurav Shetty (journalism and international relations double major) is studying how the power of journalism can produce clarity in our understanding of climate change, and shape positive outcomes. Historically, climate change has proven challenging for journalists, Shetty says, because it lacks the immediacy that drives…
Read MoreTheoharis Examines School Equity, Pandemic Parenting
Theoharis Examines School Equity, Pandemic Parenting Honors Core Faculty George Theoharis is co-editor with Rebecca Lowenhaupt of the recently published book, Parenting in the Pandemic: The collision of school, work, and life at home, published by Information Age Press, Scottsdale, AZ. The edited volume consists of first-person essays written by education professors from around the…
Read MoreA Day at the MET
Honors Class Visits MET Professor Jim Watts and students in the Honors class Writing, Scripture Law visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City in early April. Students have been studying the invention of ancient writing systems and the use of normative written texts in the history of economic administration, religion, and…
Read MoreStudents Tell Their Stories Walking
Students Tell Their Stories Walking Tell Your Story Walking is a collection of creative work by Syracuse University honors students and alumni, curated by current honors students. Guided by Honors instructor Jeffrey Pepper Rogers, Tell Your Story Walking is designed to create community by providing a platform for creative nonfiction, visual art, and multimedia to give…
Read MoreHonors Community Examines Conflict & Loss
Honors Seminars Examine Conflict & Loss Refugee Communities in SyracuseAli Modabber, Immigration Legal Services Manager, Refugee Resettlement Services, was the guest speaker in Professor Roula Jneid’s course, Refugee Communities in Syracuse. The discussion focused on current policy proposals to help protected parolees gain citizenship. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, a fundamentalist religious group, the…
Read MoreCelebrating Ukrainian Culture and Heritage
Celebrating Ukrainian Culture and Heritage Professor Patricia Burak, Honors faculty and faculty advisor for the university’s Ukrainian student organization, presented aspects of Ukrainian culture with students at the annual “Cultures on the Quad” event hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. The students presented the art of decorating Ukrainian Easter eggs (“pysanky”) and…
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