The Neolithic relief found in southeastern Turkey may illustrate humans' changing relationship with animals. (photo by K. Akdemir, courtesy Cambridge University Press) About 11,000 years ago, ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

Over the last couple of years, I've gotten more involved with collecting and sorting through multiple narratives to help businesses understand and deal with difficult problems. (Difficult, meaning the ...

All of us have felt like a misfit in our professional career from time to time. We’ve all lost a job or been told in one way or another that we aren’t good enough. When that happens, we have a clear ...

Imagining things that do not exist in nature and weaving them into narratives are unique signatures of the human psyche. These abilities are abundantly evident in the earliest example of narrative art ...

I hold University of Michigan Professor Karl Weick in high regard for his lifetime’s work on sensemaking. Put simply, sensemaking is the process of making sense of the social world around you. It goes ...

In Maa Behen, Rekha is branded a witch after her husband's death and years of rumour. The trope echoes a long history of ...

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost, 1874-1963, “The Road Not Taken” When individual teachers or entire schools are faced with the desire/need to ...

As a graduating doctoral candidate, I find myself facing many transitions ahead. At times like these, we often use a book metaphor: The Stanford chapter is coming to a close, and a new chapter is ...