Reed in the Media
The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights David Edding's bequest to Reed
Local coverage of Reed's agreement with the Department of Justice on book readers: OPB Radio; Oregonian
Book-TV recording of author, NY Times journalist, and 1989 Reed Grad Peter Goodman's lecture, "Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy"
The Wall Street Journal turned the tables on the presidents of 10 top colleges and universities, including Reed’s Colin Diver, with an unusual assignment: answer an essay question from their own school's application
CBS News reporting on Reed's tolerance of its odoriferous ginkgo trees
New York Times features Reed in an article on the increased demand for financial aid; President Diver responds to the Times article; OPB gives the Oregon perspective
New York Times features Reed College in an article on admission trends during the economic downturn
My Abandonment, the latest novel by Reed's Peter Rock, has gained local and national attention in the Oregonian, NY Post, Newsday.
Oregonian Q&A with Reed’s Crystal Williams on
her third collection of poems, Troubled Tongues
The Oregonian review of "Suddenly" at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Early Voting has become a hot topic on the Presidential campaign trail, and Reed’s Paul Gronke is a leading expert in the field: read Paul’s latest contribution on CNNPolitics.com.
Oregon Council for the Humanities magazine features its Humanity in Perspective course. The course is taught by Reed professors, and helps low-income adults use the humanities to improve their lives.
Boston’s WBUR topical issues show, Here and Now, features Reed professor of political science Paul Gronke on the popularity of early voting.
Kimberly Clausing, Reed professor of economics, on how Wall Street's meltdown will impact the folks of Main Street on Marketplace.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, on early voting in the UK's The Guardian.
Reed dean of admission Paul Marthers on OPB’s Think Out Loud to discuss the rising cost of a college education.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, is quoted in the New York Times on the influence of early voting on campaign strategy in the presidential election.
The Oregonian on the City of Portland’s decision to include the Parker House in Reed’s amended master plan.
The Oregonian profiles "suddenly: where we live now" at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Ellen Millender, Reed associate professor of classics, shares her thoughts on the use of technology in the classroom for a New York Times article.
Paul Gronke, Reed professor of political science, and Reed’s Early Voting Information Center are part of a USA Today story on the upcoming presidential election.
Jeffrey A. Parker, Reed professor of economics, and Paul Marthers, Reed dean of admission, examine faculty pay equity at small liberal arts colleges for Academe.
Reed Dean of the Faculty Peter Steinberger appears on OPB's Think Out Loud to discuss Reed’s drug and alcohol policy.
2008 Reed graduate Lukas Strickland is featured in the Oregonian for being a recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship travel grant.
The Oregonian reviews Jess, an exhibition at Reed's Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Marat Grinberg, Reed Russian literature professor, comments in the New York Review of Books on the "problem of evil" in postwar Europe.
Brian Kassof, Reed visiting assistant professor of history and humanities, contributes to an OPB story on the origins of May Day.
Former President Bill Clinton responds on ABC News to the questioning of Hilary Clinton's campaign strategy by Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor.
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Reed College Prof. Darius Rejali Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair
The Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program comprises approximately 40 distinguished lecturing and research awards ranging from three to 12 months.
Portland, OR (May 22, 2009) --The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has awarded Reed College professor of political science Darius Rejali with the 2009 Danish Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and International Studies. Awards in the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program are among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program.
The Danish Distinguished Chair is a research award at the Danish Center for International Studies and Human Rights. The center was established on January 1, 2003, to strengthen research analysis in Denmark concerning international affairs, primarily in the fields of foreign security, development of policy; conflict; holocaust; genocide and political mass murders; and human rights in Denmark and abroad.
Iranian-born Rejali is an internationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. He has spent his scholarly career reflecting on the causes, consequences, and meaning of modern torture. His work draws from the disciplines of political science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, and critical social theory. He is a 2003 Carnegie Scholar, an honor he received in recognition of his innovative approach to the study of violence.
Rejali's most recent book,
Torture and Democracy (Princeton, 2007), is an unrelenting examination of the use of torture by democracies in the 20th century. It won the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association. In their review, the
Times Higher Education said, "
Torture and Democracy immediately lays claim to be the most compendious and most rigorous treatment of the subject yet written.” The book has been praised in the
Financial Times,
Harper's, the
San Francisco Chronicle, and the
Daily Telegraph. It has placed Rejali in the international media spotlight, positioning him among the world's preeminent scholars on torture. He has been interviewed by Amy Goodman on
Democracy Now!, David Frost on
Al Jazeera, and on more than one occasion by the
BBC, and the
Washington Post.
Rejali is also the author of
Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran (Westview, 1994), as well as many articles on violence, including “Masculinity and Torture,” “Media Representations of Torture,” “Political Thought of Osama bin Ladin,” “History of Electric Torture,” “Practice of Stoning in the Middle East,” “Treatment of Refugees Who Have Been Tortured,” and “Theories of Ethnic Rape.” Rejali has been a member of the Reed faculty since 1989. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from McGill University and a B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College. He is a member of the editorial board of
Human Rights Review.
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