Dr. Daniel Mendoza ’01 gave a TEDx Talk illuminating how preserving dark skies through simple solutions can preserve energy, lower carbon emissions and benefit animal and human health. Mendoza quotes author Craig Childs to remind the audience, saying, “‘A night sky is not the absence of light, it is the presence of the universe.’ Turn down the lights, look up and let the universe shine through.” Mendoza was awarded an honorary doctorate and spoke at DePauw’s 2024 commencement ceremony. SOCIAL
Facebook, Nov 4: “Great company, better people!” Andy Cohen ’02 (Comment from Facebook) Eric Fruth ’02 and Matt DeLeon ’02, co-founders of Columbus Running Company, built more than a store. They built a community. Their DePauw experience helped shape the values and vision that drive their success today. More on Eric and Matt at depauw.edu/stories. @DePauwU
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“NORTH WOODS” BY DANIEL MASON
DAVID BOHMER ’69
Shout out to librarians and independent booksellers for encouraging me to try something new! Like anyone, I have reading habits, often getting into a groove with a particular author, genre or topic and remaining in that groove for weeks, months and even years. And I’m not all that mad about it. I like what I like. However, a bookstore employee at Golden Hour Books recommended this one, “North Woods” by Tiro Daniel Mason, and I am thankful for their suggestion. Dinámicas de la I bought the book and am now reading it indigeneidad en contextos urbanos for a second time. And I think I’m enjoying it as much, if not more, on the second reading. “North Woods” is an inventive and exciting work of fiction. Part of the enjoyment comes from sitting back in wonder and thinking about what it was like to write such a book. Told through intertwining stories centered around a house in Western Massachusetts over several centuries, Mason tells the story of this house through the eyes of the man who built it, his spinster daughters, a bounty hunter, an amorous beetle and others. It’s a novel that includes letters, poetry, public records, memoir, ghosts and myth. I think maybe reading “North Woods” is like experiencing an archaeological dig (see ’Buried No More,’ Page 12). The stories layer on top of each other like strata, with each new story revealing something new about the place, its people or its other inhabitants and how they are all interconnected. “North Woods” put me in a state. I’m going back in. Una exploración arqueológica de Pichincha Occidental, segunda edición Ronald Lippi
El camino de los capos: Memorias de un colono de Nanegal Oseas Espín Zurita Palmitopamba, tierra de yumbos e inkas: Arqueología en un recinto de Nanegal, Ecuador Ronald Lippi Una biografía de los Yumbos Ronald Lippi
Dinámicas de la indigeneidad en contextos urbanos ofrece una mirada innovadora a las formas en que las comunidades indígenas reconfiguran su identidad en entornos urbanos. Centrándose en el barrio de Cotocollao, Quito, Kathy Fine-Dare explora cómo la población yumbo utiliza estrategias culturales que van desde el patrimonio material hasta rituales simbólicos, desafiando las concepciones tradicionales de etnicidad. Con un enfoque claro y profundo, fruto de más de tres décadas de investigación, la autora plantea una pregunta central para la antropología contemporánea: ¿qué significa ser indígena en las ciudades del siglo XXI? Este libro es una contribución clave para comprender las complejidades y desafíos de la indigenidad en un mundo en constante cambio.
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Kathleen S. Fine-Dare • Traducción de Alexandra Ribadeneira Parducci
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Historia, actuación y educación en Cotocollao, Quito Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Traducción de Alexandra Ribadeneira Parducci
“Ford Frick: Baseball’s Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game,” published by University of Nebraska Press, sheds new light on the career of Frick, Class of 1915, and his many contributions to the game. Bohmer is director emeritus of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and Media Fellows Program at DePauw. He will speak and sign books at the Watson Forum on April 14. KATHLEEN S. FINE-DARE ’74
“Indigenous Dynamics in Urban Contexts: history, action and education in Cotocollao, Quito” examines the transformation of an Ecuadoran community, by San Francisco UniversityQuito Press and Abya Yala Press (Salesian Polytechnic University).
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Kathleen S. Fine–Dare (Ph. D., Universidad de Illinois, Urbana–Champaign) realizó su investigación doctoral en Cotocollao, estudio que sirvió de base para la publicación de su primer libro con la editorial Abya–Yala. Desde entonces, ha desarrollado una destacada trayectoria académica, impartiendo cátedra en antropología, estudios indígenas y estudios de género en Fort Lewis College, en Durango, Colorado (EE. UU.), y en la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana en Quito. Es autora de numerosos artículos y capítulos de libros, además de haber coeditado las obras Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology (en colaboración con S. L. Rubenstein) y The Andean World (junto con L. J. Seligmann). Asimismo, ha publicado los libros Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA y Urban Mountain Beings.
Actualmente, se desempeña como presidenta de la Junta Directiva de la Asociación de Museos de Mesa Verde, secretaria de la Asociación de Antropólogos Senior y miembro de la Asociación Fulbright de Colorado. Reside en Durango, Colorado, junto a su esposo, el politólogo Dr. Byron Dare.
MARK GADSON ’76
“Just Jazz” is Gadson’s sixtrack collection of original compositions featuring four acclaimed artists in a vibrant exploration of modern jazz. MARY ARDERY ’15
“Level Watch,” Ardery’s debut poetry collection from June Road Press is described as a “nuanced exploration of intoxication and recovery.”
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