Department of Liberal Studies: Research
Students in the Department of Liberal Studies rethink the modern world by examining the history of ideas, aesthetics, philosophy, politics, anthropology, media theory, and more. Their research combines theoretical foundations with critical engagement,
achieving an in-depth understanding of the global community and our place within it. Recently, their boundary-pushing work has covered topics such as:
- Nike and post-modern capitalism
- Franz Kafka’s and Hannah Arendt’s images of totalitarianism
- Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time
- Race and heavy metal
- Education and identity in Israel
- Participatory democracy in the twilight of Spain’s 1978 regime
- The body politic in Walt Whitman’s poetry
- Celebrity, star-image, and media democracy