I am delighted to announce that Cándida F. Jáquez, Associate Professor of Music, will be the Director of the Humanities Institute for a three-year period, beginning July 1, 2011. An interdisciplinary approach to the humanities has long informed Professor Jáquez’s research, teaching, and performance, in addition to her intellectual and professional commitments.
Professor Jáquez has proposed a rigorous and stimulating series of programs that include “promoting interdisciplinary discussion across broader theoretical frameworks; seeking transnational research and projects; integrating critical race theory across traditionally under-represented groups and their diasporas; addressing gender and sexuality beyond the confines of heteronormativity; and exploring spheres of empowerment in social activism and transformative change in what it means to be human.” She will be assisted in her programming by the Humanities Institute Advisory Council.
I would like to take this opportunity to applaud and thank Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran whose enormous success as the Director of the Humanities Institute for the past three years provided extraordinary and far-reaching programs that greatly enriched Scripps and the wider academic communities.