News and Announcements

Doctoral candidate Shamethia Webb authors introduction to FFC special feature

5/12/21

MWGS doctoral student Shamethia Webb wrote the introduction to the special feature "When Class Time Is Screen Time" published in the spring 2021 issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom. Writing from the perspective of a student and an educator, Shamethia offers a powerful pedagogical framework for understanding these student essays about the ways that screens have mediated their learning experiences.

Dr. Keating speaks, consults on lessons for transformation

5/11/21

Recently Dr. AnaLouise Keating gave a talk, “Moving beyond the Status-Quo: Post-Oppositional Frameworks for Transformation,” and served as a consultant for the Irish Sexualities and Gender Research Network’s Spring Seminar series. And, she had an article, “Nepantla Lessons for Transformation,” published in Ofrenda Magazine.

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.