Dr. Arindam Mandal, a professor at Siena College, has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 23 seminars and institutes. The Endowment is a federal agency that, each summer, supports these enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions, so that faculty can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines.
Dr. Mandal will participate in an institute entitled “The History of Political Economy”. The three-week program will be held at the Center for the History of Political Economy in Duke University.
“I am excited to receive this opportunity to spend time in Duke University as an NEH Summer Scholar in the History of Political Economy,” Mandal said. “The opportunity not only affords me to spend time with some leading scholars in the field and further my research interests, but will also give me the chance to serve Siena students through the ‘History of Economic Doctrines’ class that I teach here.”
Topics for the 23 seminars and institutes offered for college and university teachers this summer include Alexis de Tocqueville and American Democracy; American Maritime History; Beowulf and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; The Commonplace Book and Its American Descendants; Confucian Asia; Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience; The History of Political Economy; The Land Ethic, Sustainability, and the Humanities; Mapping, Text, and Travel; Modern Mongolia; Moral Psychology and Education; Native American Histories and the Land; The Ottoman Empire, Europe, and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800; Presuppositions and Perception; Problems in the Study of Religion; Religion, Secularism, and the English Novel, 1719-1897; Teaching the Reformation; Tokyo: High City and Low City; Urban Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora; Veterans in American Society; The Visual Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction; Westward Expansion and the Constitution
The approximately 521 NEH Summer Scholars who participate in these programs of study will teach over 91,175 American students next year.
