Women Studies Faculty News
On Saturday, September 26th, Sasha Welland took part in a symposium in on Gender, Identity, and the Crossing of Cultures in Contemporary Chinese Art and Media at Columbia College in Chicago. An audio recording of her presentation, titled "The experience of curating Cruel/Loving Bodies, an exhibition of Chinese female artists", can be found on the Chicago Public Radio website here.
American Sabor, guest curated by Michelle Habell-Pallan, will be hosted at International Gallery on the Mall in Washington, DC, July 11, 2011 – September 11, 2011. This is exciting news. Hopefully it will build momentum for venues in New York City and Los Angeles. Meanwhile American Sabor will soon open at another Smithsonian-backed museum, The Museo Alameda, in San Antonio on June 17th.
On March 10th, Women Studies faculty member Dr. Rebecca Aanerud learned from Provost Phyllis Wise that she will be this year's recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Lecturers! Each year, the University of Washington honors a few members of the faculty as Distinguished Teachers. Awardees are chosen based on a variety of criteria, including mastery of the subject matter; enthusiasm and innovation in the learning/teaching process; ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom; ability to inspire independent and original thinking in students and to stimulate students to do creative work; and innovations in course and curriculum design. The breadth and depth of the candidate's achievement weighs heavily in the decision process. The Distinguished Teaching Award may be awarded to a faculty member only once in his/her lifetime and are inducted into the Teaching Academy.(more)
4/08 Professor Shirley Yee nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award
Dr.Shirley Yee was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in the Associate Professor category and made it to the finalists.
Americans, and particularly younger Americans, are consistently portrayed as dismissive of history, its effects and lessons, but not Professor Yee's students. One undergraduate wrote that: "Though Professor Yee is friendly and willing to help students in and out of class, she maintains a quiet authority, and her constancy and clear passion for her work wins respect. At the same time, she has a dry and witty sense of humor that occasionally even veers into goofy." An alumna who graduated thirteen years ago, recently sent a donation to the department that cited Professor Yee as an example of a professor who "…helped to educate, guide and challenge me! She taught me how to critique material instead of WHAT to think!" Shirley's leadership and mentoring have inspired generations of students in Women Studies, one student summarized Professor Yee's teaching by saying "Yee ROCKS!"
2/08 Norweigan article on Priti Ramamurthy
From Priti Ramamurthy:
I was at the University of Tromsoe, "the northern most university in the world," to deliver two keynote lectures at a symposium on 'Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation.' This is an interview for the Norwegian Gender Research Network which goes out to over 1500 women and gender studies organizations, faculty and students.
The article can be found here: http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/c16880/artikkel/vis.html?tid=50391
2/08 Rebecca Aanerud interviewed by "Aganist The Grain"
On February 4th, 2008, Rebecca Aanerud was interviewed by C.S. Soong for the KPFA (Pacifica) radio program Against The Grain. From Against the Grain's website: How can white people bring up white children committed to racial justice? Rebecca Aanerud addresses the challenge of white antiracist mothering and suggests activities crucial to that practice.
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters - political, economic, social and cultural - important to progressive and radical thinking and activism.
The podcast can be found at: http://www.againstthegrain.org/
The Women Studies Department was extraordinarily well represented in this last round of Simpson Center awards. Assistant Professor Sasha Su-Ling Welland received a research fellowship with a two-course release for her project entitled Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China's Capital.
12/07 Berkshire Nomination for Shirley Yee!
Don't miss out on seeing the work of Women Studies Associate Professor Michelle Habell-Pallán at the Experience Music Project! Michelle co-created the exhibit, which will be open from October 13, 2007 through September 7, 2008. This is the first bilingual interpretive and interactive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music.
6/07 Simpson Center Research Awards
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Sasha Welland and colleagues, who received a Simpson Center Research Award for a research cluster on "Visual Praxis Collective" in 2007-2008.
5/07 A Thousand Miles of Dreams
The Women Studies Evening Salon series kicked off on May 24th with a wonderful reading by Sasha Su-Ling Welland from her book, A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. The event was held at the Panama Hotel Tea House in the International District.
The Department of Women Studies would like to thank Panama Hotel proprietor Jan Johnson for her generosity in donating $100 worth of food and several hours of labor to the occasion.
1/07 Judith Howard Establishes Endowment
Many thanks to Dean Judith Howard, who has established a fund "to support the scholarly activities of Women Studies graduate students". Because it qualifies for matching contributions, when fully endowed the fund will bring an additional $10,000 to Women Studies graduate education. Department Chair David Allen says, "Judy has contributed immeasurably over the years and continues to do so. This new endowment symbolizes beautifully her commitment to the discipline, our department and graduate students."
12/06 Congratulations Michelle Habell-Pallan
The committee's citation for honorable mention reads: "Michelle Habell-Pallan's sensitive analysis of comedians such as Marga Gomez, the performer Maricela Norte, Chicana punk musicians, Luis Alfaro, El Vez, and the Latino Theater Group in Vancouver not only contributes new insights into the struggles of the power that Chicano/a texts continue to embody but also expands the canon in Chicano/a cultural studies, always with an emphasis on the transnational circulation of cultural texts and on the heterogenity of Chicano/a subjects and the identities that these texts and performances propose."
Michelle Habell-Pallan is co-editor of Latina/o Popular Culture, and a co-creator of "American Sabor: US Latinos Shaping Popular Music," currently in development for the Experience Music Project. She is also a past recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Award as well as a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Award.
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