Our first “Faculty Feats” features Professor Marco Jacquemet. Some students may have noticed that Professor Jacquemet is not teaching any classes in our department this coming Spring semester. No, it is not because he won the lottery and no longer has to work for a living, is is because he was chosen as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair for 2010-2011! The NEH Chair not only comes with a title (feel free to refer to him as “NEH Chair Jacquemet”), but also time off from teaching to focus on a research project. Professor Jacquemet is using his time to complete his book project, entitled Transidioma: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization. As his students already know, Professor Jacquemet works in the fields of communication studies, anthropology, and linguistics, and this project uses ethnographic and historical data from Mediterranean Europe and the U.S. to examine how groups of people who are no longer territorially defined think about themselves and use a variety of both face-to-face and long distance media to communicate. As Professor Jacquemet said in his award-winning proposal, “Transidioma seeks to capture the late-modern novelty of communicative environments in which different languages and communicative codes are simultaneously activated through a range of communicative channels, both local and distant.” NEH Chair Jacquemet will be presenting his research to the University community next year. This is a great honor for our department to have one of our faculty members chosen as the NEH Chair. Congratulations!
NEH Chair Jacquemet gazing into the distance and dreaming about ethnography
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