The mission of the Center for the Arts in Society is to investigate the sources of creativity and innovation in the arts as these have existed in the past and in diverse societies. Scholars in the humanities and the arts collaborate to examine the impact of social, political, and technological developments on creativity and innovation in the arts. The Center connects the arts to one another and to the humanities as the basis for interdisciplinary theory and practice, forming an institutional hub for work that combines disciplines, fields, and approaches to the arts and humanities. The Center merges training in practice with historical and critical theory as the foundation for new research and scholarship.

The Center for the Arts in Society has three main goals. The first is the development of new models for research in the humanities and the arts that are designed to have an impact on the current models for graduate education and professional training. The second involves establishing a theoretical framework and standards of practice through which scholarship in the arts and the humanities can transcend cultural boundaries. The third is to broaden the audience for critical and innovative work in the arts and the humanities, including citizens as well as practitioners in diverse fields.

We implement these goals by introducing new curricular programs, providing material support for innovative research endeavors, and sponsoring projects that encourage dialogue among a wide range of citizens.

The Archive of Controversy in the Arts is a web-based repository that presents material on controversies prompted by works of art or represented through the work of an artist. The Archive can be used by many audiences --- scholars, journalists, students, artists, policy-makers, and the general public --- to explore the interaction between the arts and controversy: the many dimensions of how the arts spark controversy, how a controversy is rendered in art, and how controversies impact the arts.

Daniel Boyarski, Professor and Head, School of Design
Boyarski teaches courses in typography, information design, and human-computer interaction design. He is interested in how words, images, motion, and sound work together to produce effective communication pieces. Externally, he lectures at conferences and consults with companies on interaction design issues. In 1999, the Design Management Institute awarded Dan the Muriel Cooper prize for outstanding achievement in advancing design, technology, and communications in the digital environment.

Krista Campbell, Associate Director, Center for the Arts in Society
Krista Campbell holds a Master of Arts Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated With Distinction, and B.A. in Liberal Arts from Wittenberg University, with a major in psychology, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She has worked with large and small arts organizations in all aspects of administration: exhibitions, resource development, marketing and event planning, community relations, and human resources. She has served as a grant reviewer for the Ohio Arts Council and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

W. Douglas Cooper, Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture
Cooper executes large urban panoramic murals: in many cases working with residents to incorporate their memories (often in their own hands) into the work. These murals present a highly personal record of the urban life of each city. Two projects have combined mural making with foreign language instruction -- engaging CMU undergraduates together with local residents. Cooper has authored three books: Drawing and Perceiving, a widely used text on drawing (John Wiley and Sons); Frankfurt Panorama, about the making of the Frankfurt mural; and Steel Shadows about his Pittsburgh murals (University of Pittsburgh Press 2000). In 2000 he received a national award from the American Institute of Architects for the collaborative contribution of his murals to the profession of architecture.

Tim Haggerty, Director, Humanities Scholars Program
Haggerty earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Carnegie Mellon, and since 2000 he has been the associate director of the university's Center for the Arts in Society. He became acting director, then director, of the Humanities Scholars Program in September 2004. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, and he also has taught at Carnegie Mellon, Carlow College and St. Vincent College. He holds a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in city planning from the University of California at Berkeley. His current research examines journalism and the transformation of graphic work in antebellum New York.

Suguru Ishizaki, Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Communication Design
Ishizaki's research focuses on developing tools for communication design. His work in the past several years has addressed problems and opportunities associated with the design of digital communication media. In his book, Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (MIT Press, 2003), Ishizaki proposed a descriptive model of design--along with a series of computational experiments--that would allow designers to represent design solutions that are responsive to dynamic changes in the information recipient's intention, in the situation, and in the information.

David S. Kaufer, Professor of English and Rhetoric and Department Head
Kaufer's interests are in qualitative and quantitative theories of rhetoric, writing and written information. In addition to heading the Carnegie Mellon English department, he co-chairs an interdisciplinary masters program between English and the School of Design in the College of Fine Arts. For the past decade, he has been interested in investigating rhetoric as an art of design. His recent work has involved collaborating on software interfaces that allow researchers and students to analyze texts visually for their locally patterns of rhetorical design. He is currently working on a book that associates multi-word English patterns with rhetorical effects.

Miso Kim, PhD. Candidate, School of Design
Miso Kim is interested in design's role in current society with advancing digital technology. Her Ph.D. study focuses on human nature, participation, and tolerance. She holds MDes in Communication Planning & Information Design, and MDes in Interaction Design from School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to CMU, she explored diverse fields of art such as novel writing, painting, game design, and comics. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea.

Jon Klancher, Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English
Klancher's research has focused on writers' relation to their publics, the forming of cultural institutions, and the impact of new print media. He is the author of "The Making of English Reading Audiences 1790-1832," and many essays on literary history, the history of critical theory, and the sociology of culture. He taught at UCLA, Caltech, and Boston University before coming to CMU, and has held both Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. He also recently served as the Charles Watts Visiting Professor in English at Brown University. Currently he is completing a book on the new British cultural institutions that transformed the relationship and public meaning of the "arts & sciences" in the Romantic age.

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, English
Ritivoi is interested in how individuals negotiate personal and social identity in periods of political and cultural transition. She has written about Eastern European immigrants' efforts at adjusting to a new society, about Eastern European intellectuals struggling to be accepted in Western circles in the post-communist era, and about the role of memory and nostalgia in the shaping of a political consciousness. Her first book, Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2002, and her second book, Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory will is forthcoming in the spring of 2006. She is also the editor of Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz (Rodopi, 2003).

Judith Schachter, Ph.D., Professor, History and Anthropology
Schachter has been director of the Center for the Arts in Society since 2000 and has been involved in interdisciplinary education since her appointment to Carnegie Mellon in 1984. Her publications include Ruth Benedict (1983); Kinship with Strangers (1994); A Town without Steel: Envisioning Homestead (with C. Brodsky, 1998); A Sealed and Secret Kinship (2000); as well as a number of methodological and theoretical articles on visual anthropology. Schachter has concentrated on analyses of families in crisis; in several of her articles, she has also explored the interconnections between individual lives and larger social and political changes. Her current work is a collective biography and a cultural-historical study of Hawai’Äôi in the twentieth century.

David Tinapple, MFA Candidate, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon
Prior to his arrival at Carnegie Mellon, Tinapple's work involved systems development at the Ohio Supercomputer Center as a human factors engineer for the software industry. His work has been presented and published in the fields of Human Factors and Ergonomics; his video work has received several awards and been shown internationally.

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