November 4, 2010
Faculty, staff, and students at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences contributed more than thirty photographs and small offerings to build a community ofrenda for Día de Muertos, a Mexican holiday commemorating the return and living presence of passed loved ones each year at the end of October and the beginning of November.
Professor Steven Pfaff, one of the Sociology Department’s newest faculty members, considers himself an eclectic scholar who gets to study all the “interesting things” – politics, religions, conflict, and social change. In his most recent book, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail (Cambridge University Press) Pfaff and co-author