News and Announcements
Dr. Phillips-Cunningham accepted into the inaugural Second Book Institute in African American/Black Studies at Georgetown University
5/11/21
Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham is writing a book about the labor organizing history of African American educator Nannie Helen Burroughs. She was recently accepted into the inaugural Second Book Institute in African American/Black Studies at Georgetown University. The Institute provides support for tenured associate professors who are completing a second monograph in preparation for their promotion to the rank of full professor. Whereas a range of first book institutes currently exist to assist assistant professors complete their first books, similar professional support for associate professors developing their second monographs remains scarce. The Second Book Institute fills this gap by providing associate professors with a range of resources that are designed to help them progress through the book writing process.
Phillips-Cunningham discusses book, research in NYU series and Rutgers talk
4/26/21
Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, MWGS Program Director, was a featured speaker in the Black, Brown, and Green Voices Series at New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House. She engaged in a conversation with Dr. Miriam Grey (founder of the series) about the comparative labor histories of southern Black women and Irish immigrant women.
Phillips-Cunningham also delivered a book talk moderated by Dr. Naomi Williams of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.
Veronica Popp and Dr. Phillips-Cunningham co-author Nannie Helen Burroughs article
4/26/21
Veronica Popp (doctoral candidate in Rhetoric) and Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham (MWGS Program Director) co-authored an article entitled “Justice for All: The Womanist Labor Rhetoric of Nannie Helen Burroughs” published by Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Popp is first author on this article, which is a labor organizing of African American educator Nannie Helen Burroughs. In the article, Popp and Dr. Phillips-Cunningham document Burroughs’ historic efforts to establish the first national labor union for Black women.
Elia Tamplin accepts director position, will begin mental health MA studies
4/26/21
Dr. Elia Tamplin, graduate of the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Coordinator of Experiential Learning, was accepted into Marymount University’s M.A. Program in Clinical Mental Health. They will also begin a new position as Director of Education and Membership at the University of Washington’s School of Psychiatry.
They will be missed, and we wish them well!
PhD candidate Esther Ajayi-Lowo accepts faculty position at Spelman College
4/26/21
Esther Ajayi-Lowo, doctoral candidate in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies, recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Comparative Women’s Studies (CWS) Program at Spelman College.
Spelman is a private liberal arts college that was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1881. It was the only school in the nation that welcomed women from across the African Diaspora. Currently, Spelman is one out of only two historically black colleges for women, and it is home to the very first program in WGS at an HBCU and the first Black women’s archive at a college.
Esther is an expert on reproductive justice with a focus on maternal health issues among Nigerian women. She will contribute significantly to the development of the health concentration of the CWS undergraduate major program.
The program is housed in the Women’s Research and Resource Center where scholars and grassroots organizers from around the world come together to engage in feminist theorizing, pedagogy, and institution building. The director and faculty of CWS are looking forward to Esther joining this expansive community and becoming their colleague in the fall.