A passion for parks: History’s Emily Wakild receives NEH grant to study Mexican national parks

Emily Wakild, who joined the history faculty in 2007, teaches her Latin American history class. History professor Emily Wakild is passionate about Mexican parks. She has spent more than a decade researching and writing about the legacy of the Mexican Revolution in the early- to late-1900s, a period in which government planners created a system of national parks to achieve both social goals and environmental conservation.

‘Why Do People Laugh?’

Cindy Gendrich will use a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a first-year seminar on comedy and humor. Cindy Gendrich is one of those people who can't stop herself from laughing, sometimes too loudly and at inappropriate times. A professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Gendrich has received a $24,800 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her proposal, “Why do people laugh?”, to study the complexities of humor and to develop a first-year seminar.

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