Ciara Christian successfully presents
her Dissertation Research Proposal
The LLC Program is pleased to announce that Ciara Christian of
Cohort 21, successfully and skillfully presented her dissertation
research proposal to her committee on September 30, 2021.
Her
project is titled, "Talkin' Shit, Pouring Libations, and Building Community: Exploring Podcasts as a Contemporary Site of Black Feminist Knowledge Production and Activism."
After Ciara's presentation, she
had a
substantive
discussion with the committee about the next stages of her work. Ciara's
committee agreed that the project is worthy of doctoral research and
helped her consider some key issues as she moves forward into the
research and writing.
Many thanks to Ciara's committee members:
Dr. Brandy Wallace, SAPH (chair)
Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, LLC (co-chair)
Dr. Jason Loviglio, MCS
Dr. Jasmine Lee, Student Affairs
Dr. Tina Harris, LSU
Please join us in congratulating Ciara on reaching this significant milestone! She can now apply for candidacy.
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Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization
Tuesday, November 16th @2pm
The program for Arab and Muslim American Studies is hosting its first event of the academic year: Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization.
During the event, three indigenous speakers from diverse communities discuss their perspective on indigenous identity and politics, decolonization practices, and solidarity. Our speakers include:
Dr. Ashley Minner (Lumbee Tribe NC)
Ashley Minner is a community-based visual artist from Baltimore and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She received her MFA (’11) and MA (’07) in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her PhD (’20) in American Studies from University of Maryland College Park. Ashley recently worked as a professor of the practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she also served as director of the minor in Public Humanities. She currently works as a curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Dana Olwan (Palestinian)
Dana Olwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her work is located at the nexus of feminist theorizations of gender violence, transnational solidarities, and critical feminist pedagogies. She is the recipient of a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, a Future Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship, and a Palestinian American Research Council grant. Her work has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Formations, the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, American Quarterly, and Feral Feminisms. She is co-editor with Margaret A. Pappano of Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter Press, 2016). Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new project that is centered on marriage and divorce laws and citizenship practices in the Arab world, with a specific focus on Jordan and women’s access to personal status rights. She teaches courses on feminist theory, comparative settler colonialisms, and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa. She is co-editor (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty) of Comparative Feminist Studies from Palgrave Mcmillan.
Dr. Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli).
Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous feminisms and queer theory. She is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords. She has published articles on Hawaiian sexuality, diaspora, hip-hop, film, and feminisms in Hawaiʻi and Oceania. She has received fellowships from Yale University, the University of Oregon, and the Ford Foundation. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, The Drama Review, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Amerasia on Ocean Feminisms and is working on a new book on the queer history of Hawai’i and an oral history project with LGBTQ kupuna (elders).
Click here to attend this virtual event, or visit the original event post for more information & to join.
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CHARTWELLS Information Table
Stop by to Learn About Campus Employment Opportunities!
Members of the Chartwell's Campus Dining team will be hosting an information table to share information with you about on-campus employment opportunities for UMBC students.
Several examples of available positions posted in UMBCworks are:
Part-Time Food Service Worker (9330299)
Part-Time Shift Supervisor (9330300)
Marketing Intern - Spring 2022 (9329160)
Sustainability Intern - Spring 2022 (9329165)
Please stop by when you are able!
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