Faculty Workshop at Colleges Nine and Ten

March 17, 2015

On January 30, 2015, College Nine and College Ten, with support from Dean Kamieniecki, held their first faculty research workshop for junior faculty in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The colleges are not only dedicated to creating a vibrant living and learning community for our students, but they are also committed to supporting the engagement and success of our faculty fellows, who benefit from more opportunities to share and discuss research, network and collaborate across campus, and seek mentorship and advice from colleagues. The faculty members who participated in the workshop conduct research relevant to social justice and community, or global and international perspectives, or both. Short presentations were followed by group discussions of works in progress, listed below.

Lamis Abdelaaty, Assistant Professor, Politics: “Competing with Refugees: The Politics of Generosity and Rejection”

Christy Byrd, Assistant Professor, Psychology: “Black History Month and To Kill a Mockingbird: Student Perceptions of School Racial Socialization Practices.”

Cindy Cruz, Assistant Professor, Education: “When Does Resistance Begin? Queer Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latino Youth, Identity and the Infrapolitics of the Street”

Audun Dahl, Assistant Professor, Psychology: “Infants’ Provoked and Unprovoked Use of Force Toward Others”

Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, History: “Constructing the 1902 Aswan Dam: The Making of Infrastructure and the Continuities of Construction”

Sylvanna Falcón, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies: “Building a Human Rights Culture in Post-Conflict Perú”

Adrián Félix, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies: “The Thickening of Transnational Citizenship”

Christine Hong, Assistant Professor, Literature: “Blurring the Color Line: Racial Fictions, Militarized Humanity, and the Pax Americana in the Cold War Pacific Rim”

Jessica Taft, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies: “Equality and Children’s Difference: Re-Imagining Intergenerational Relationships”

Discussants included:

Nancy Chen, Professor, Anthropology

Kent Eaton, Professor, Politics

Flora Lu, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies

Marc Matera, Assistant Professor, History