Congratulations to our Faculty and Students for their Achievements!
Over the last 2-3 months, the GWS faculty and students have been moving their work into the world in quite notable ways. We are overjoyed to share this news with you.
- Darius Bost has won the Clark/Oakley Fellowship and will spend next year at Williams College as a residential scholar finishing his book.
- Jennie Brier received an NSF grant with faculty in Earth and Environmental Science and at Urban Growers Collective. “Regeneration, Reparation, and Reimagining: Building Equitable University-Community Geoscience Research Collaborations on Chicago’s South Side,” National Science Foundation, Planning Grant ($625,000/3 years). Starts this month.
- Ronak Kapadia has published "The Downward Redistribution of Breath: Abolitionist Visions of Healing Justice from Chicago" Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 8.3 (2022, published Jan 2024): 259-284,
- Nadine Naber secured a $20,000 MacArthur grant for her work with MAMAS, organizing mothers and parents of incarcerated people; Nadine also has an essay, “Feminist Responses to the War on Gaza.” in the most recent Feminist Studies 49, no 2/3, 2023
- Gayatri Reddy has not one, but two essays out. “Queer Desi Formations: Marking the Boundaries of Cultural Belonging in Chicago” in Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, edited by Omar Kasmani and published by Duke University Press at the end of 2022. And in American Anthropologist, the journal of record of the field “Our Blood is Becoming White”: Race, Religion, and Siddi Becoming in Hyderabad, India” American Anthropologist 2023.
- Terrion Williamson has an essay, “Need that Tastes Like Destruction: Lessons from (the) Lorde on the Occasion of Black Death and Dying,” in Feminist Studies 49, no2/3.
- Krysten Stein Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Media Studies GWS Graduate Student Concentrator and GWS 101 TA has contributed her expertise to several recent articles examining gender, power, and social media.'The sex ed class you wish you'd had': the influencer doctors teaching Americans the basics" (The Guardian). "Tik Tok is pushing longer videos. Some creators worry about the vibe shift" (CNN). "The Gen Z gender gap is widening, and the influence of manosphere podcasters can't be ignored" (Business Insider). Last October, Krysten also attended an invite-only workshop at Microsoft Research New England "The Promises and Perils of Generative Al for the Creator Economy."
- Dez Brown, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English GWS Graduate Student Concentrator. Dez has two poems, "Sadness is Not the Only Muse" and "Survivor's Guilt", published in the latest issue of swamp pink magazine. Read both poems here: https://swamp-pink.cofc.edu/issue-9/
Modified on February 27, 2024