Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about PETA. “Its controversial tactics are not above critique,” writes Dutkiewicz. “But the key to PETA’s success has been its very refusal to be well-behaved, forcing us to look at what we might rather ignore: humanity’s mass exploitation of the animal world.”
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Overgrown, by Nathan Ginter, BFA Film ’23, is screening at Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn as part of Brooklyn Horror’s “Head Trip” film shorts event.
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Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow and 2025 Taconic Fellow Alex Strada was featured in Harlem World Magazine for her new project Public Address, presented in collaboration with The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Social Services, Department of Homeless Services, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. “I make art to transform systems of power,” said Strada. “Public Address emerges from years of sustained listening, working closely with people experiencing homelessness and frontline shelter staff across the boroughs.
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Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt’s novel, Mr. Splitfoot was featured on Electric Lit’s list of 10 Books Featuring Devils, Doppelgängers, Ghosts, and Creepy Dolls. “Mr. Splitfoot features cults, sinister folk, mothers both good and bad, and the thin veil between what we can see and that which lies beyond,” writes Laura Venita Green. “This book is strange, thrilling, and remarkably touching.”
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Cisco Bradley, professor of social science and cultural studies, received “Best International Film” at the Zepstone International Film & Music Festival for his film Take Me to Fendika. The film also won “Best Documentary” at the Africa USA International Film Festival.
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Pratt Institute has earned a STARS Gold rating in the 2025 Sustainable Campus Index by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). For the second consecutive year, Pratt earned gold for its overall performance, with especially high scores in curriculum, research, campus engagement, and innovation and leadership. STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
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The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N), based at Pratt iSchool, will receive the Outstanding Support of Archives award by the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York at their symposium on October 17. Dean Anthony Cocciolo and DPOE-N program manager Kirk Mudle will receive the award on behalf of the program.
![New York Archives Week Symposium and Awards Ceremony 2025. What is Parst is Prologue: The Future of Memory. The Center for Brooklyn History. 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Friday, October 17th 2025. 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM]()
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Pranav Dawar, Film ’25, earned the Audience Choice Best Documentary at the Tasveer Film Festival for his film Karnama (Well of Death).
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Hanna Pennington, MSLIS ’22, archivist and associate director at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, has co-curated an exhibition, The Guggenheim Fellowship at 100, on view through November 30, 2025, at The New York Historical. The exhibition is marking the centennial of the Guggenheim Fellowship program and exploring its impact on American cultural and intellectual history through the mission of supporting exceptional scholars, scientists, and artists to pursue their work “under the freest possible conditions.” [image from SoI newsletter]
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Associate Professor and MFA Program Faculty Director Katherine Hubbard will exhibit her work with New York-based gallery Company at Frieze London. “I believe deeply that photography is a form of sociality and a way of being in the world,” said Hubbard. “Photography transforms [my mom’s] home from a space which overwhelms me into a stage where the accumulation of her life’s collections and a perverse sense of composition become the world of the image.”
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