Kristel Smentek, assistant professor of art history in the Department of Architecture, has won the 2009 CGS/UMI-Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities/Fine Arts from the Council of Graduate Schools.
More information about the award — which Smentek received for her dissertation “Art, Commerce and Scholarship in the Age of Enlightenment: Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Making of Art History” — can be found here: http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=131.
Diversifying your online world
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
