George Watsky: Rapper, Poet, Author and Emerson Alum
When learning about George Watsky’s eclectic career, it makes perfect sense that he created his own major while at Emerson.
When learning about George Watsky’s eclectic career, it makes perfect sense that he created his own major while at Emerson.
Speakers at Emerson’s 139th Commencement Ceremony asked students to listen to others, speak their own truths, and live life with hope and compassion. Here are some excerpts:
Award-winning TV journalist Soledad O’Brien is not one to give advice.
The teams working with the Institute – Integrated Misfits and Compass – each got the same brief. The two campaigns that arose from that brief and research, however, were “a great example of how creativity and research takes people in different directions,” said Executive-in-Residence Brenna McCormick.
Assistant Professor Kaysha Corinealdi of the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation.
A select group of Emerson College Honors Program seniors presented a diverse range of theses to their peers and teachers in a showcase on April 19.
Anthropologist and affiliated faculty member Carol Ferrara joined students from SO310: Religion and Secularism in Contemporary Societies in a Holi celebration April 6 at the Braj Mandir Nimbarki Vaisnava Temple in Holbrook, Massachusetts.
Students at MCI-Concord will now have the opportunity to put those courses toward a bachelor of arts degree in Media, Literature and Culture, through Emerson College, which has become one of only a very few institutions in the state to award degrees to students in prison.
Assistant Professor Mneesha Gellman, founder/director of the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI), and senior and POWER co-chair Alexis “Lex” Fernander were named this year’s Spirit of Emerson Award winners.
The Unlikely Strummers, a 25-member ukulele band based in Plainville, was featured on WCVB’s Chronicle recently. Founded by affiliated faculty member and anthropologist Cynthia Miller in 2017, the group has members with a range of interests, musical abilities, and careers.