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for the Week of October 8, 2001
Jill Medina, assistant director of admissions, was interviewed by and quoted in San Francisco's Asian Week. Medina commented on the development of Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) identity in college-aged youth and the importance of APIA organizations on college campuses. "I don't know if it is the age of the college experience, but critical inquiry really starts to take form, this is when you really start to critically examine what you are learning," Medina says. "To be able to work through those questions, whether it be in a class or an organization, is really key."
Yasser Tabbaa, visiting assistant professor of art, has just published his second book, The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001). Tabbaa's book examines the transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and how this transformation signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. By exploring the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation and investigating the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms, Tabbaa challenges the essentialist and positivist approaches that permeate the study of Islamic art and offers a historical and semiotic alternative for exploring meaning within ruptures of change.
Please send contributions for "Faculty and Staff Notes" to sue.kropp@oberlin.edu.
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