Tara McPherson

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Critical Studies associate professor Tara McPherson was an invited speaker at the Frontiers of New Media Conference at the University of Utah.  She delivered a paper on the relationship of mid-century struggles over civil rights to emerging structures of computer code at the time.  She also presented a paper on the racial logics of digital media at the recent Modern Studies Association conference in Long Beach. 

In late October, Tara served as an external reviewer of the Humanities division at MIT, where she is a member of the Humanities Visiting Committee.  She is also, with Philip Ethington (professor of History), the recipient of a Zumberge research award for a project exploring new forms of digital publication and archiving. 

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