SUNY Old Westbury is celebrating 50 years of Hip-Hop as part of its annual Panther Pride Homecoming festivities and will feature two of its graduates at the same time: Kool Moe Dee (Class of ’87) – A charter member of hip-hop’s old school, Moel Dewesei (aka Kool Moe Dee) is the creator of “fast rap...
Providing scholarship support for the students of the State University of New York at Old Westbury will be the outcome of a new endowed fund created with an initiating gift of $10,000 by the Upsilon Mu Alumni Foundation to the Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc., the not-for-profit organization...
SUNY Old Westbury Visual Arts alumnus Joshua Olsen is a finalist in the SUNY-Wide Film Festival (SWFF). Olsen, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2020, is nominated twice in the animation category for his works: “Pillow Talk” and “The Critique.” “Joshua’s talent has shone at SUNY Old...
The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College at Old Westbury is pleased to announce the opening of Reimagined, a group exhibition of works by four new adjunct faculty members of the Visual Arts Department at SUNY Old Westbury. The title of the exhibition loosely connects the underlying methods and...
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The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury is excited to announce the opening of Sung Rok Choi: The Great Chain of Being, a solo exhibition of new media art. Sung Rok Choi’s animations present spectacle on dynamic screens that resonate with our current...
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The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Our Land," a new exhibition comprising photography and video by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora. Curated by Anthony Hamboussi, photographer and adjunct professor in the Visual Arts Department at SUNY...
Assistant Professor of American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury Llana Barber’s new book “Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000” explores the history of the first Latino-majority city in New England, and the transformation and challenges it faced in the late...
SUNY Old Westbury Associate Professor of American Studies Llana Barber has received the 2017 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association. Presented at the Association’s Biennial Conference in Columbia, South Carolina, Barber earned the award...
Dr. Jasmine Mitchell, associate professor in the American Studies/ Media and Communications Department, recently received the Oliver Scholars Inaugural Alumni Award at the organization's gala. Mitchell was one of three alumni honored for excelling at Oliver's core pillars of scholarship, leadership...
Dr. Carol Quirke, a professor in the American Studies Department at SUNY Old Westbury, recently authored her second book, “Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America: Reinventing Self and Nation.” Published by Routledge, the biography highlights the life of one of the...
Dr. Amanda Frisken, Professor in the American Studies/Media & Communications and Acting Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences recently published her latest book, " Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism." The 292-page book, part of the University of Illinois...
Assistant Professor Lisa Payton of the American Studies/Media & Communications Department recently wrote two episodes for the current season of " Truth Be Told," an Apple TV+ show starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer. The NAACP Image Award-winning drama follows investigative reporter turned true...
Dr. Jasmine Mitchell, an assistant professor in the American Studies/Media & Communications Department, has released her first book "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media." , the 288-page book was published by the University of Illinois Press. In "Imagining the Mulatta," Dr...
Dr. Llana Barber of the American Studies Department was recently announced as the co-winner or the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize by the New England American Studies Association. The Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize is given to the best academic book in American Studies written by a New England scholar or...
Associate Professors Laura Chipley and Samara Smith of the American Studies/Media & Communications Department received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to create a prototype of their immersive virtual reality project, "Virtual Aquapolis." The $100,000 grant, one of 10 awarded...
Associate Professor of American Studies/Media and Communications John Friedman discussed "Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (Part One)," the new film on which he served as a producer, during an interview on February 19, 2025, on FOX5 NY's "Good Day New York." The interview came in...