Albion College professor of history Wesley Arden Dick recounts a 2017 dinner conversation aboard an Amtrak train with Chloé Zhao, and how he and his wife, Leslie, were inspired by the filmmaker's best director Oscar acceptance speech during the April 25 Academy Awards.
In partnership with two leading organizations championing the study of history, Albion joins eight other colleges—and is the only Midwest institution—offering a four-year $5,000 award to students declaring history as their major at the time of admission.
"Late Friday night, July 27, television programs were interrupted by the very sad news that Civil Rights giant John Lewis had died following a battle with cancer," Dick writes. "My generation was introduced to John Lewis through his bravery and we followed his political career as a congressman from Atlanta, Ga. As a professor, one of my joys is telling his story to my history students."
Dr. Deborah Kanter, the John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History and History Department chair at Albion College, recently was the subject of a question-and-answer feature on the website of U.S. Catholic magazine, where she talked about her recently published book, Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican (University of Illinois Press, 2020). The book examines the role of churches in transforming neighborhoods throughout Chicago and fostering community for generations of Mexican Americans.
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