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Paranormal frequencies: TWU graduate investigates spooky sounds in media
12/7/20
By merging her passion for music, writing, rhetoric and film, TWU graduate student Regan Dianne Campbell developed an extremely unique area of research: Sonic rhetoric and the use of sounds and music in horror movies and TV shows.
DiAnna Hynds, PhD, to serve as senior editor of 'ASN Neuro'
12/3/20
DiAnna Hynds, PhD, was recently asked to serve as a senior editor on the editorial board for the journal "American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) Neuro." She will primarily work with neurotrauma and neurodegeneration manuscripts for the highly-ranked, open-access journal.
Hynds also serves as a professor in the TWU Department of Biology, an affiliate professor for the TWU Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice, and as TWU Faculty Senate speaker.
Feminist print culture and storytelling symposium co-hosted by professor Agatha Beins
12/1/20
A feminist print culture and storytelling symposium co-hosted and co-organized by TWU MWGS professor Agatha Beins, PhD, in collaboration with Beth Currans from Eastern Michigan University, was held Nov. 6, 2020, and attracted participants from across the nation. During "Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels" panelists explored traditional and indigenous stories, mass-market fiction, scholarly work, and ephemera to illuminate the politics and processes of storytelling and publishing.
Philips-Cunningham receives 2020 Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History
12/1/20
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, Associate Professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies, was recently awarded the 2020 Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History from Georgia State University.
Phillips-Cunningham will deliver a presentation at GSU on her project, titled “’We Aren’t Aunt Jemima Women’: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing in Atlanta, Georgia.” The Reed Fink Award will also support Phillips-Cunningham’s research of the Dorothy Bolden Collection at GSU’s Southern Labor History Archives.
Bolden established the National Domestic Workers’ Union of America in 1968. She also worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr., US House Representative John Lewis, Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, and US President Jimmy Carter to organize working-class Black women into the largest voting bloc in Georgia’s history. Her legacy lives on through Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight organization, The National Domestic Workers Alliance, and other organizations that challenge voter suppression today.
Vocal ensembles bring music to unexpected heights
11/30/20
In November, a limited audience of TWU community members were treated to a free TWU Chamber Singers and Concert Choir performance in an unusual location: The third floor of the Oakland Street Parking Garage. The vocal ensembles, led by professor Joni Jensen, DMA, first made use of the open-air space for rehearsals and then decided to transform the spot into a unique, socially-distanced venue for “Untraveled Worlds.”