Taught by Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Sciences Anita Isaacs, this political science course integrates diverse disciplinary approaches—legal, political, sociological and anthropological—to explore the causes of migration, the dynamics of assimilation and incorporation of migrants in the U.S., and the process and impacts of deportation and (re)incorporation in Mexico and Central America.
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Professor Anita Isaacs interviews "Ben" in Mexico City as part of the Migration Encounters Project. Photo by Patrick Montero.
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In his new documentary, He Dreams of Giants, Keith Fulton ’88 continues an exploration into the psyche of ex-Monty Python-er Terry Gilliam that began with his 2002 film festival hit Lost in La Mancha.
Read "Documenting A Director’s Dream" from the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Keith Fulton '88 (right) and his production partner and husband Louis Pepe in their L.A. editing studio. Photo: Christopher Fragapane.
Boyce Upholt ’06 recounts a perilous trip atop a record-breaking flood—and an attempt to understand what we’ve done to America’s iconic river.
Read "The Kamikaze Canoe" from the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Over the past four years, journalist Boyce Upholt has paddled more than a thousand miles of the Mississippi in the company of the river's "foremost evangelist" John Ruskey. Photo by Rory Doyle.
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