Faculty Updates
CARTA’s professors will exceed your highest expectations. Our accomplished teachers and scholars engage in research and scholarly work that amplifies the learning environment on our campus. Here, through a series of questions and answers, CARTA faculty members share their breadth of life experiences and interests that fuel the dynamic learning environment on campus.
Eric Peterson
Department of Architecture
eric.peterson@fiu.edu
Students from an interdisciplinary class taught by Martha Schoolman (English) and I contributed work to a traveling exhibition put on by the Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of 22 universities. “Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Injustice” will open at Rutgers University on November 1.
The class, working with WeCount!, an education and advocacy group in Homestead, talked with immigrant agricultural workers and recorded their stories in text and drawings. Booklets in the workers own words with drawings created by students will be exhibited.
Publication Type: Publication
Gray Read
Department of Architecture
readg@fiu.edu
Students from an interdisciplinary class taught by Martha Schoolman (English) and I contributed work to a traveling exhibition put on by the Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of 22 universities. “Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Injustice” will open at Rutgers University on November 1.
The class, working with WeCount!, an education and advocacy group in Homestead, talked with immigrant agricultural workers and recorded their stories in text and drawings. Booklets in the workers own words with drawings created by students will be exhibited.
Publication Type: Other
Jacob Berglin
School of Music
jacob.berglin@fiu.edu
Students from an interdisciplinary class taught by Martha Schoolman (English) and I contributed work to a traveling exhibition put on by the Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of 22 universities. “Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Injustice” will open at Rutgers University on November 1.
The class, working with WeCount!, an education and advocacy group in Homestead, talked with immigrant agricultural workers and recorded their stories in text and drawings. Booklets in the workers own words with drawings created by students will be exhibited.
Publication Type: Publication
Federico Bonacossa
School of Music
fbonacos@fiu.edu
I recently was awarded the Miami Dade Artist Access Grant to travel to Santa Cruz, California and attend a workshop with composer Larry Polansky. Here is a link with a list of the awardees:
http://fundarte.us/fundarte-event/artist-access-apply/
Publication Type: Award / Recognition / Grant
Barry Bernhardt
School of Music
barry.bernhardt@fiu.edu
Barry Bernhardt has been asked to conduct the 2019 All-State Sugar Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans, LA on January 1, 2020. Bernhardt will also write the choreography for the Camping World Bowl, the TaxSlayer Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, the Alamo Bowl and the Holiday Bowl this season.
Publication Type: Other
Jose Lopez
School of Music
lopezjr@fiu.edu
I received a Provost Humanities Research Grant for $6,000 in 2018-19 to record a CD of piano works by Cuban composer Nicolas Ruiz Espadero (1832-1890) for the UK-based Toccata Classics label, which is scheduled for release between Sept. and October 2019. The CD includes a thorough booklet examining the recorded works and Espadero’s life.
Publication Type: Award / Recognition / Grant
Jahaira Galvez
Department of Art + Art History
jgalvez@fiu.edu
Awarded Miami-Dade Artist’s Access Grant for Workshop/ Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.
Publication Type: Award / Recognition / Grant
Peggy Nolan
Department of Art + Art History
nolanp@fiu.edu
FIU Adjunct of the Year 2019
Publication Type: Award / Recognition / Grant
Rebecca Covey
Department of Theatre
rcovey@fiu.edu
My chapter “Relaying Action: from Breath to Text” will appear in the book “Activating the Actor” which is being published by Routledge. In this chapter I (along with co-author Aaron Alpern) outline a progression of exercises to lead actors to connect the voice and body to action on the stage.
Publication Type: Publication
Alpesh Patel
Department of Art + Art History
alpesh.patel@fiu.edu
My chapter “Relaying Action: from Breath to Text” will appear in the book “Activating the Actor” which is being published by Routledge. In this chapter I (along with co-author Aaron Alpern) outline a progression of exercises to lead actors to connect the voice and body to action on the stage.
Publication Type: Other
Aileen Izquierdo
Department of Communication
aiizquie@fiu.edu
Speaking on the importance of media relations and storytelling at both the national Public Relations Student Society of America national conference (PRSSA) and the international conference of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) next month in San Diego. Two thousand students and industry professionals expected to attend.
Publication Type: Other
Will be published soon!