Author profile: Joel Vessels

Dr. Joel Vessels is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Political Science, and Geography at Nassau Community College in Long Island, New York. He is the author of Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic (University Press of Mississippi, 2010).

Making ‘remain’ the Cool Vote – Wolfgang Tillman & His Posters

Joel Vessels • Jun 6 2016 • Articles

What’s at stake in Wolfgang Tillman’s Brexit posters is the imagined community of Europe itself.

The Congress of EuroVision: Building European Community One Bricolage at a Time

Joel Vessels • May 8 2015 • Articles

By taking on the kitschy blandishments of the Eurovision and by contributing to the construction of shared experience, post-Soviet nations brand themselves as European.

There Aren’t Any Moderate Muslims in France

Joel Vessels • Feb 2 2015 • Articles

Charlie Hebdo has often played the role of public conscience in France, raising important concerns, lashing out at social injustice, and parodying public idiocy.

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