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Phillips-Cunningham's op-ed in Washington Post on Juneteenth, Quakertown

6/29/22

TWU's Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, wrote and op-ed in the Washington Post regarding Juneteenth and Quakertown. The piece, titled "Juneteenth started in Texas. So did this Black town. Whites destroyed it," was published in two parts..

Part 1: How formerly enslaved people created a community of their own

Part 2: Groundless panic about White women's safety razed a town

TWU student earns four scholarships to study in Greece

5/19/22

Riley-Grace Huggins, a TWU junior majoring in English Literature, earned four scholarships to allow her to study in Greece this summer.

Fire official finds high reward in PhD

5/13/22

Megan Schuth, the first woman battalion chief in the Denton Fire Department, will be awarded her PhD in rhetoric in Friday’s graduation ceremony at TWU.

Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham featured in 'Denton Record Chronicle' interview

1/13/22

Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Program Lead of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies, speaks to the Denton Record Chronicle about TWU’s upcoming Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies bachelor's degree and what it can mean for students.

Genevieve West, PhD, featured in Publisher's Weekly interview

1/6/22

We are proud to announce that TWU ESFL professor and chair Genevieve West, PhD, is featured in the Publisher’s Weekly interview "You Don’t Know Zora Neale Hurston" over the publication of the book You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays (Amistad)—a comprehensive collection of Hurston’s essays co-edited by West and the noted Harvard scholar and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr.