Tag: ryan engley
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The Academic Minute for 2025.08.11-2025.08.15
Monday Pamela Prickett – Pomona College America’s Rising Number of Unclaimed Deaths Pamela Prickett is an associate professor of sociology at Pomona College and former journalist. She is the author of two books about Los Angeles, including The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels and Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels. Tuesday…
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Ryan Engley, Pomona College – Seriality and Our Psyches
On Pomona College Week: Did you binge-watch last weekend? Ryan Engley, assistant professor of media studies, examines why we stay up to keep watching. Ryan Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. His current book manuscript, Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life, casts the notion of seriality as a…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.08.11)
Pomona College Week on The Academic Minute 2025.08.11 Monday Pamela Prickett, associate professor of sociology, examines why unclaimed deaths are on the rise in the United States. Tuesday Jo Hardin, professor of math and statistics and Hardison Chair of analytical thinking, explores how the Random Forest prediction model works. Wednesday Char Miller,…