HSA Blog

The choirs of the Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer and Scripps met the challenges of singing during the ongoing COVID pandemic in a variety of creative ways. Late in February 2020, the Claremont Concert Choir and Claremont Treble Singers were joined by three outside groups—women from Crossroads house, a transitional living […]

It is with extreme pleasure and thanks that I announce the 2022–2023 program of Arts at Harvey Mudd College presented by the HMC Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts. The concert series at the Drinkward Recital Hall continues to treat the audience to intriguing music and sounds: Ian Dicke reimagines American folksongs with […]

The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts is delighted to welcome Kathleen Burns, our new Hixon-Riggs Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society. Burns comes to us from the English Department at Duke University, where she recently defended her dissertation, “Vegetal Forms: How Plants Cultivate Life in Literature and Science.” Her research encourages us […]

Artist and sometimes Mudd professor Christy Matson joined the makerspace stewards in April 2022 to help build Mudd’s new digital Jacquard loom in the makerspace. Matson is a Los Angeles-based textile artist, whose art is exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her art has been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world, including […]

Professor of media studies, interdisciplinary artist, Rachel Mayeri here. I’m thrilled to share news about my participation in the Southern California-wide Pacific Standard Time exhibition on art and science, planned by the Getty Foundation for 2024. I’ve been tapped to produce a video installation for the Birch Aquarium in San Diego about a unique technological […]

In addition to my role as professor of art and the Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Chair in the Arts and Humanities, I’m an artist who makes photographs, videos, collages, sculptures, sounds, drawings, performances and text-based works. I often start with straightforward objects as subject matter. My approach mines the mundane and the everyday […]

Imagine that the CEO of a company learns that implementing a new policy will harm the environment and also make the company lots of money. The CEO then says: “Implement the policy—I don’t care about the environment, I just want to make money.” Did the CEO intentionally harm the environment? Most people would say “yes.” […]

Annabelle Teng ’24 received the 2021 First-year Writing Prize for this paper, written for Professor David Seitz’s Star Trek and Social Theory class, in which students investigated the Star Trek franchise. Sex sells and the film industry lives to make profit, even at the expense of others. Hollywood is problematic—in more ways than one—but the […]

How does social impact work? Many people doubt that social change is even possible, but those on the front lines of efforts to make the world a better place know otherwise. In spring 2021, students in my Global Environmental Politics course at Harvey Mudd interviewed renowned changemakers from their hometowns—activists, elected officials, entrepreneurs and others—with […]

As a rule, I don’t pay much attention to explicitly Orientalist media. I get enough of it implicitly, through the back-door, as it were, by virtue of being a living, breathing citizen of the United States of America. Our mainstream, political, and popular culture is full of exoticized, eroticized, dangerous, and damaging portrayals of the […]