Best Voices Of Excellence From Arts Podcasts (2021)

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Listening to the COSMOS with Katherine Borst Jones 31:06

3d ago31:06

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Professor Katherine Borst Jones, professor of flute and chair of orchestral instruments in the School of Music, not only commissions new musical works but performs them as well. She shares with David Staley, host of Voices of Excellence. https://www.facebook.com/osumusic https://www.facebook.com/ohiostateflutestudio http://www.twitter.com/OhioState…

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The Lafayette Trail — Following America's Favorite Frenchman 18:16

5d ago18:16

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It's a noble thing to follow in the footsteps of your hero, and Julien Icher has taken this notion a step further. His nonprofit, the Lafayette Trail, retraces the 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of famed Franco-American hero General Lafayette. Julien is a French geographer and historian who is fascinated by the Marquis' visit that united the U.S. during a…

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What makes us sick? Daniel Wozniak looks at the causes 28:13

10d ago28:13

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Daniel Wozniak, professor of microbial infection and immunity and microbiology, studies bacterial pathogenesis and gene regulation. He joins David Staley to discuss his research that seeks to determine how bacteria live in human hosts and what kinds of treatment can stop their growth. Listen to the latest on Voices of Excellence…

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An economist and a geographer meet in a forest...: Research by Darla Munroe 29:27

17d ago29:27

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Professor Darla Munroe, chair of the Department of Geography, studies land economics and human geography, with a focus on human environment interactions at a landscape level. She joins David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence, to discuss her work on the forests of southeast Ohio and the methodological distinctions between economists and geo…

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STATION F — Based in Paris, the world's largest startup campus 17:51

19d ago17:51

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The world’s largest startup campus is a Franco-American marvel. In the heart of Paris in a renovated train station, STATION F is captained by Roxanne Varza, an Iranian-American who is passionate about getting young businesses the resources they need to thrive. She works hard to create an environment where unicorns can brush elbows with the world’s …

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The Quirks of Quarks and Other Aspects of Quantum Mechanics with Yuri Kovchegov 33:28

24d ago33:28

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Yuri Kovchegov, professor of physics at The Ohio State University, studies quantum chromodynamics at high energy and nuclear theory and was recently named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He breaks down some of the intricacies of quantum mechanics with David Staley on this week's Voices of Exc…

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Jennifer Suchland on the Role of the Scholar in Society 31:15

1M ago31:15

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Associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Jennifer Suchland is a 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars and Society Fellow. She describes how the role of scholars in society is also the role of education in society, especia…

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The American Library in Paris — After the darkness of war, the light of books 23:36

1M ago23:36

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The American Library in Paris is a testament to Franco-American tenacity. Founded and maintained by bibliophiles committed to freedom of thought and open discussion, this institution survived great hardship to provide a haven to those in need. From famous expatriates like Stein and Hemingway to today's modern bestselling authors, the library has be…

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Villa San Francisco — Engaging artists and community worldwide 20:48

2M ago20:48

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Villa San Francisco is a French-founded international space for dialogue between artists and community seeking to connect innovative ideas to solutions that respond to global and local challenges. Today, we speak with Melanie Desliens Flint, a founding member of Villa San Francisco and an integral part of the international Villa Network's expansion…

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Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry on turning COVID-19 into 19ChoreOVIDs 35:12

3M ago35:12

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When dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry began working from home due to the pandemic, her interest in staying hopeful as an artist led her to begin creating 19 choreographed videos, aka 19ChoreOVIDs, a play on COVID-19. She describes these videos and more of her work with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence…

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S4 E2 Bridging The Great Divide: An Interview High-Performance Coach Cam MacDougall 49:31

3M ago49:31

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A couple of years ago, Cam MacDougall went on an epic ride of 4,350km through the mountains of Banff all the way to Mexico in 30 days. The trail is called The Great Divide and it's one of the world's longest off-road mountain bike trails. Yet, this wasn’t just a physical challenge for Cam, it was a practice in spirituality. Interview Host: Sachin K…

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Voices of Excellence hits the century mark! 39:13

3M ago39:13

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Voices of Excellence will release its 100th episode on November 18. Join host David Staley as Olivia Miltner from ASC Marketing and Communication talks to him about interviewing dozens of faculty members in the college of arts and sciences, what he's learned about interdisciplinarity in the college and what he hopes listeners gain from the podcast.…

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Building capacity: Joni Acuff on collectives, movement work and the arts 28:54

4M ago28:54

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Joni Acuff is an associate professor, graduate studies chair, and diversity chair in the department of arts administration, education and policy. Recently, she's been researching the collective work of artists and art educators of color, with an eye to recognizing and supporting emerging social justice collectives and coalitions. For more of her di…

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Pioneering in the language program director field: Holly Nibert 32:48

4M ago32:48

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Holly Nibert, associate professor of Hispanic linguistics and language program director in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, researches phonology and phonetics, the acquisition of a second language sound system, and the principles and practices of second language classroom instruction. Recently, she's been writing a book about how to be a l…

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Newspaper ads are a great way to learn about a culture: Treva Lindsey 33:15

4M ago33:15

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Associate Professor Treva Lindsey of the department of women's, gender and sexuality studies specializes in African American women's history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics. She researched black women's beauty culture by delving into newspapers from the …

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Finding Resilience In Turbulent Times: An Interview With Daniel Usenko 41:25

4M ago41:25

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Photographer, avid chess player, adventurer, and co-founder of Pixellu and SmartAlbums, Daniel Usenko is no stranger to hardship. At the age of seven, Daniel and his family had to flee his birthplace in the former Soviet Union when a civil war broke out. Growing up displaced and poverty-stricken, Daniel lived for years in poverty until he eventuall…

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Scott Swearingen: It's more than gunning down zombies 26:37

5M ago26:37

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Scott Swearingen, assistant professor in the department of design, studies game design, collaborative gaming, and animation, and worked as a game designer on award-winning games and franchises, including Medal of Honor, the Simpsons, and the Sims. He talks with David Staley about how games define our culture and why he values face-to-face interacti…

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Jennifer Brello on helping patients learn to speak again 27:44

5M ago27:44

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Jennifer Brello, clinical associate professor in the department of speech and hearing science, serves as the director of the Ohio State University Aphasia Initiative, a free program for people living with loss of communication ability due to brain injury. Aphasia can make mundane tasks like ordering a cup of coffee very challenging, and Brello desc…

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Julia Nelson Hawkins on researching a pandemic while living in one 34:04

5M ago34:04

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Julia Nelson Hawkins, associate professor in the department of classics, leads a group of clinicians and humanities scholars in the Discovery Themes-funded project Humanities in the Pandemic that seeks to increase academia and public awareness about the role that arts and humanities play in global health crises. She talks with David Staley about th…

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Shannon Winnubst on “the past that is never past:” Anti-Blackness & Anti-Indigeneity 29:15

5M ago29:15

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Shannon Winnubst, professor and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, researches queer and trans studies, race theory, psychoanalytic theory, and 20th century French theory. Energized by the Black Lives Matter movement, she talks about new language that is emerging in the public sphere to name systemic racism and the dee…

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Katra Byram asks "How do Germans regard the mothers of World War II?" 30:04

5M ago30:04

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Associate professor of Germanic languages and literature Katra Byram is a core member of Project Narrative and coeditor of The Ohio State University Press book series. Her current research examines the complicated and, for her, ambivalent roles played by German mothers and grandmothers in post-war German literature. For more of her discussion with …

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Nicholas Breyfogle on the impact of discounting Russia in 1991 34:46

6M ago34:46

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"There was a time after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 where Americans, others in Europe, and other places in the world discounted Russia as a global power. And this was a mistake," says Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Director of the Goldberg Center, and an expert on Russian and Soviet history and global environmental history, especi…

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Judson Jeffries: Why the BLM protests look new 33:58

6M ago33:58

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Judson Jeffries, professor of African American and African Studies, researches media studies, public policy, Homeland Security, African American politics, and police-community relations. He sees the BLM protests as having a new kind of participant and perhaps a new kind of possibility for success. For more of his discussion with David Staley, liste…

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Kristi Williams discusses how 60% of US adults experience trauma before 18 25:46

6M ago25:46

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Williams, a professor in the department of sociology, researches the influence of family and other personal relationships on mental and physical health, with a particular focus on gender and life course variations in those patterns. She is particularly interested in exploring how the more trauma people experience, the worse their health is and how …

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The ethical significance of reading, according to Prof. Ashley Hope Pérez 29:55

6M ago29:55

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How readers engage with what they encounter in reading has ethical significance, says Ashley Hope Pérez, assistant professor of comparative studies. In addition to having written three novels, she researches fiction with an eye to how it shapes the way that readers respond to others in the real world. For more of her discussion with David Staley, l…

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Heather Allen and researching the underpinnings of science 31:04

7M ago31:04

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Heather Allen, Dow Professor and Ohio State distinguished scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, researches molecular organization, ion pairing, and hydration at aqueous interfaces. She describes her work as taking the very basic units of life and asking, "How do they respond to an electric field or slight changes in pH and enviro…

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Reconstruction, Green Books and Representation: Prof Trevon Logan on African American history 32:47

7M ago32:47

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Trevon Logan, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, researches economic history, economic demography, and applied micro economics. He joins David Staley on thie week's Voices of Excellence to discuss the economic history of African Americans…

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Elena Foulis, podcaster: "Every time I interview a person...I'm learning something" 30:16

7M ago30:16

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Elena Foulis, coordinator for the Spanish for Heritage language program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and host of the Ohio Habla podcast, joins David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence. She discusses her work as a public humanist, how she engages students in her classes, and what she learns hosting her very popular podcast…

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Never the same word twice: Cynthia Clopper on the uniqueness of pronunciation 25:46

7M ago25:46

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Cynthia Clopper, professor and chair of the department of linguistics, researches speech sounds: how we produce them, their acoustic characteristics, and their perception by listeners. She says that every time we say a word, like "cat," it's subtly different. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence…

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Elizabeth Cooksey and the survey that launched 10,000 articles 28:26

8M ago28:26

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Professor of sociology Elizabeth Cooksey studies social demography, life course transitions, and the development of youth and children. She also serves as the director of the Center for Human Resource Research, which started the first national longitudinal survey 55 years ago. The data from the study has been used in thousands of articles, and Cook…

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Laura Kubatko: It's an exciting time to be working in biology 28:10

8M ago28:10

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Professor Laura Kubatko, from the Department of Statistics and the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, is amazed by the advances she's seen in her career in how scientists translate "observations into formal mathematical or statistical models." Moreover, this is for her the "fun part," because they collaborate to explain "why […

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Bastille Day – Then & Now – The history & present culture of France’s National Day 32:37

8M ago32:37

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IN DEPTH – “Is it a revolt? No, sire, it is a revolution!” Hop on this time-machine as we take you back to July 14, 1789 with special guest Gary Girod of the ‘French History Podcast’. Explore & understand the series of events leading up to the storming of the ‘Bastille’ and how it forever changed the tides of history. Learn about the profound socia…

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Why did the chicken cross the road? Laura Wagner says it had a story to tell 30:54

8M ago30:54

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Professor of Psychology Laura Wagner studies how children acquire language and learn about meaning, such as the progression of time in storytelling. Their interpretations of even simple stories like the famous chicken joke reveal hidden meanings about complicated linguistics and complex concepts of time. She discusses this and more with David Stale…

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Barry Green invites you to join the Inner Game of Music 34:55

9M ago34:55

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The School of Music's Barry Green has served as the principal bassist for both the Cincinnati Symphony and the California Symphony and Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony. His book The Inner Game of Music, has sold over a quarter of a million copies . He shares his thoughts on music, musicianship, and how to drown out the negative thoughts in your hea…

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Prof. Meow Hui Goh on how people experience the collapse of a society 27:00

9M ago27:00

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Meow Hui Goh, an associate professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, researches medieval Chinese literature, medieval Chinese literary and cultural history, memory and text in medieval China, and the instrumentality of medieval Chinese literature. She is completing a new book manuscript, The Double Life of Chao…

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Gina Osterloh on the pressure of looking 30:05

9M ago30:05

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Gina Osterloh, assistant professor of art, sees her photographic practice as embodying the printed image, drawing, film, and performance as it explores the resonances between the physical body and its representational imprint, trace or stand in. For more of her discussion with David Staley, including her insight in role of looking and vision in cre…

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Prof. Ola Ahlqvist tells us how to see the forest for the trees 26:06

9M ago26:06

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Professor of geography, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Enrichment, and Executive Director of the Honors and Scholars Center, Ola Ahlqvist studies cartography, land cover change, geographic information, and online maps. He also looks at the impact that the definition of terms has on research, such as what defines a forest. Listen to his discuss…

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Jim Phelan describes the power of narrative 24:45

9M ago24:45

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Distinguished university professor and Arts and Humanities distinguished professor in the Department of English, Jim Phelan also serves as director of medical humanities and director of project narrative. He joins David Staley to define narrative theory, identify the many audiences built into narratives, and discuss how "narrative competence enhanc…

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Matter) says Annika Peter 28:19

10M ago28:19

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Annika Peter, associate professor of physics and astronomy, works at the interface of particle physics and astronomy to discover the secrets of dark matter. She shares her research on galaxies, particles, and constellations with David Staley on this week's Voices of ExcellenceBy Voices of Excellence from Arts and Sciences

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Laughter and disruption from women comedians with Prof. Linda Mizejewski 31:39

10M ago31:39

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Linda Mizejewski, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, researches comedy and women comedians as well as women detectives in popular culture. She joins David Staley to discuss her research and suggests some great classic movies to watch. Listen to this week's Voices of Excellence…

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Prof. Wendy Panero talks about what it's like to really be under pressure 34:32

10M ago34:32

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A professor in the School of Earth Sciences and director of the mineral physics research group, Wendy Panero studies the behavior of materials under the high pressure and temperature of the Earth's interior. She joins host David Staley on this week's Voices of ExcellenceBy Voices of Excellence from Arts and Sciences

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Prof. Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm on how we use language to get help from other 28:54

10M ago28:54

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Taleghani-Nikazm, professor of German, researches language interaction, often through conversation analysis. She joins David Staley to define conversation analysis and the role turn taking plays in conversation, among other areas. For more of her research, listen to this week's Voices of ExcellenceBy Voices of Excellence from Arts and Sciences

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Professor Brad Bushman: Mythbuster 25:50

11M ago25:50

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"I want people to base their beliefs on research evidence rather than hunches," says Brad Bushman, professor of communication and the Margaret Hall and Robert Randal Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication. Bushman studies the causes, consequences, and solutions to the problem of human aggression and violence, and shares his insights with David Staley…

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Prof. Piperata looks at the impact on health of adapting to your circumstances 34:04

11M ago34:04

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Associate professor of anthropology Barbara Piperata applies an evolutionary and critical biocultural perspective to the study of nutritional anthropology, food security, and reproductive energetics. She's especially interested in what happens to people's health as they adapt to their circumstances. She explains her findings to David Staley on this…

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Finding a celestial needle in a "haystack" of similar needles: Scott Gaudi's dilemma 30:26

12M ago30:26

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"We Return Fighting" — WWI and the experiences of African Americans at home and in France 28:59

1y ago28:59

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IN DEPTH – Dive with us into the profound and differing experiences of African Americans in France and in the U.S. during World War I. Gain insight into this particular and important part of our shared history with guest curator, Krewasky Salter from the Smithsonian exhibit "We Return Fighting - World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity"…

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