2016
Kristin Bumiller: American Civil Rights Movements: Race, Gender, and Disabilities Issues
威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校政治学博士，阿默斯特学院 George Daniel Olds 经济学与社会机制（政治学）终身教授
PhD., University of Wisconsin –Madison, George Daniel Olds Professor in Economic and Social Institutions (Political Science), Department of Political Science, Amherst College
主要研究领域有反歧视法律、与强奸与家庭暴力相关的法律问题以及残障权益的研究。著有The Civil Rights Society（Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988）、In an Abusive State （Victoria Schuck Book Prize, American Political Science Association, 2009）和数篇涵盖多领域的学术文章。在阿默斯特学院，Bumiller 教授同时担任“Inside-Out”监狱交换项目的执行委员，并且教授“Regulating Citizenship”, 一门由阿默斯特学院学生与汉普郡监狱学生共同参与的政治学课程。
Professor Bumiller has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Amherst College in the Political Science Departments. Professor Bumiller is the author of the award-winning book, In an Abusive State (Victoria Schuck Book Prize, American Political Science Association, 2009) which examines the relationship between the feminist movement against sexual violence and criminal justice policy. She is also the author of a seminal book on employment discrimination, The Civil Rights Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988). Her numerous articles, which span a broad range of interests in anti-discrimination policy, feminist theory, gender and punishment, and disability rights, have been published in major journals in her field.
美国民权运动：阶级不平等问题
该课程将深入探究民权运动在社会不平等、歧视以及发生在民主国家的暴力行为中所扮演的角色；并且追溯旨在应对社会不公正，以及种族、性别、残疾和公民身份的，围绕权利展开的法律策略的演变。教授将会带领学生讨论在什么样的时机，以什么样的方式，捍卫权利能最有效地引发社会变革，带来深远的社会影响。
This course explores the role of civil rights in addressing inequality, discrimination, and violence in democratic societies. This course will trace the evolution of rights focused legal strategies used in the United States aimed at addressing injustice coupled with race, gender, disability, and citizenship status. We will evaluate when and how rights are most efficacious in producing social change and the possibility of unintended consequences.
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander: Childhood in Caribbean and African Literature
圣安德鲁斯大学（英国）文学博士，阿默斯特学院 Emily C. Jordan Folger 黑人文化研究与英语文学终身教授
PhD., St. Andrews University, U.K.
Emily C. Jordan Folger Professor of Black Studies and English
Department of Black Studies, and English, Amherst College
主要教学领域有加勒比与非洲文学。来到阿默斯特学院之前曾在德国拜罗伊特大学进行非洲文学博士后研究。Cobham-Sander 教授是书籍《Watchers and Seekers: Creative Writing by Black Women in Britain》（The Women’s Press, 1987）的联合编者，并知名学术杂志发表评论文章若干。她的著作《I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott》（The University of West Indies Press）已于2016年问世。
Professor Cobham-Sander teaches Caribbean and African literature at Amherst College. She came to Amherst in 1986, after working as a research associate in African Literature at the University of Bayreuth in Germany for four years. Professor Cobham-Sander is coeditor of Watchers and Seekers: Creative Writing by Black Women in Britain (The Women’s Press, 1987) and her critical essays on Caribbean and African literature have appeared in such journals as Callaloo, Transition, Small Axe, and Research in African Literatures. Her new book, I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott (The University of the West Indies Press), is due out the summer of 2016.
加勒比与非洲文学
该课程透过童年作品向学生们介绍知名的加勒比和非洲的文学家。同学们将走进奈保尔、牙买加·金凯德、艾德维奇·丹提卡特、本·奥克瑞和奇麻曼达·阿迪契的作品中，并客观研究上述作家们所属于的社会团体。同时，教授还将引导学生们针对这些故事写出阅读感悟，甚至于模仿作者的写作风格。
This course introduces students to the work of some of the best known writers in Caribbean and Africa through their stories about childhood. We will read and discuss stories by such writers as V.S.Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Ben Okri and Chimamanda Adichie. Students will work in groups to research the communities from which the writers come. There will also be opportunities to write short reflections on the stories we have read and imitate these writers’ styles.
Trent Maxey: Samurai as Myth and History
康奈尔大学历史学博士，阿默斯特学院日本历史副教授
PhD., Cornell University
Associate Professor of Japanese History
Department of History and Asian Languages & Civilizations
教学领域涉及思想史与文化史，包括东京城市史、宗教的创造史、二战的环球史以及一系列的日本历史。他的研究探索日本19世纪宗教与建国之间的联系等；最新研究是关于日本20世纪机动车驾驶的社会文化历史。Maxey 教授发表了若干篇日本文化史学文章，并且翻译了若干篇日本知名学者所著文章。
Professor Maxey teaches a broad range of courses related to intellectual and cultural history, including the urban history of Tokyo, the historical invention of religion, a global history of the Second World War, and surveys of Japanese history. His research explores the relationship between religion and state-formation in nineteenth-century Japan; and his most current is on the social history of ‘driving automobiles’ in twentieth century Japan. Professor Maxey has published several articles focusing on Japanese cultural history, and has translated academic articles written by prominent Japanese scholars.
日本武士·传说与历史
日本武士是近现代日本最具标志性和神秘性的人物。他们究竟是特立独行还是被名誉羁绊？亦或者他们的存在比这两种解释更为复杂? 从当今好莱坞电影和18 世纪武士道对日本武士理想化的描述入手，我们将用武士的形象为衣钵，深入探究如何分辨史实和传说。我们将通过对各种一手资料的辩证调查来探索武士传说背后的历史事实。这些资料包括战争的记载、画卷、官僚文件，甚至自传。该课程旨在介绍历史学科和博雅教育的几项关键技能：批判性阅读、讨论和议论文的写作。
The most iconic and mythic figure of pre-modern Japan are the samurai. Were they solitary and honor-bound? Or were they more complex? Beginning with idealized depictions of the samurai in recent Hollywood film and 18th-century text of bushidō, we will use the figure of the samurai to ask how we sift myth from history. We will investigate and debate the historical realities behind the mythic image of the samurai from primary sources (through translation) including chronicles of war, illustrated scrolls, bureaucratic documents, and even an autobiography. The aim of the course will be to introduce the discipline of history and the key liberal arts skills of critical reading, discussion, and argumentative writing.
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