Month: July 2017

Member of the Week: Katherine Zubovich

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Katherine Zubovich Assistant Professor, Ryerson University @kzubovich Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest?  I’m currently working on a book project about urban planning and urban life in Moscow in the 1930s-1950s, tentatively titled Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life under High Stalinism. This research focuses on a city-wide skyscraper construction […]

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Welcome to Hawaii: A Honolulu Bibliography in the Aloha Spirit

.Reading time 28 minutes.

“It’s a cosmic irony that the longest, most grueling nonstop in the United States ends in the sweetest arrival of all,” Jocelyn Fujii, Hawaiian native and New York Times writer, wrote in a recent edition of its 36 Hours travel book series. Travelers will inhale the smell of “tuberose and plumeria” in the Hawaiian air, […]

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