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The Suzy Newhouse Center faculty fellows consists of Wellesley faculty on sabbatical and summer fellows. View previous fellows.
2021-2022 Fellows
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Elora Chowdhury Elora ChowdhuryProfessor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Director of Human Rights (UMASS Boston)Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Director of Human Rights at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and teaching interests include transnational feminisms, critical development studies, human rights narrative and cinema with an emphasis on South Asia. She is the author of Transnationalism Reversed, Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence (2011), which received the Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association (2012). She is the co-editor of the volumes, Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism and Transnational Solidarity (with Liz Philipose, 2016), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice (with Rajini Srikanth, 2018), and South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters (with Esha Niyogi De, 2020).
While at the Suzy Newhouse Center, she will be working on a project entitled, Ethical Encounters: Women, War and Cinema in Bangladesh. This project is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory through cinematic narratives. Muktijuddho (Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971) cinema, as a genre in Bangladesh documents the lesser known history of the struggle for independence, engenders awareness about the legacy of colonial and nationalist violences shaping tumultuous geopolitical events in the region, and asserts its relation to a global discourse around visual representations of trauma, and mobilizations of human rights advocacy. Focusing on cinema made by and centrally about women in Bangladesh, this study illuminates how visual practices of recollecting violent histories of war and colonization can generate possibilities for just futures.
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Corinne Gartner Corinne GartnerAssociate Professor of Philosophy (Wellesley College)Corinne Gartner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, within which she has primarily examined questions in ethics and moral psychology.
As a Newhouse Fellow, she will be working on two projects, both of which concern Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics. The first is a co-edited volume, Aristotle’s Other Ethics, with Christopher Bobonich and Marta Jimenez, under contract with Oxford University Press. The volume examines the Eudemian Ethics, Magna Moralia, and Protrepticus, which have received comparatively little scholarly attention (in contrast with the Nicomachean Ethics). In addition to working on the introduction, she will complete her own contribution, which treats Aristotle’s views on friendship in these neglected works. The second project explores an argument within the Eudemian Ethics in which Aristotle seems to ground the innate human desire to live in a desire to know oneself.
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Scott Gunther Scott GuntherProfessor of French and Francophone Studies (Wellesley College)Scott Gunther is a specialist of contemporary French culture and society. His research interests include contemporary queer political movements in France, sexual education in France, comparative (French/American) law, Franco-German relations, the French social category of "bobos" (i.e., bourgeois bohemians), and the cultural tastes of bourgeois Parisian children. His first book, The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-Present, examines LGBTQ politics in contemporary France with a focus on the complex relationship between French republican values and the possibilities they offer for social change.
At the Suzy Newhouse Center, he will start a new project that compares debates over the use of gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language in France and Quebec.
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Akiko Mizoguchi Akiko MizoguchiAkiko Mizoguchi is a queer visual culture theorist based in Yokohama, Japan. She has published extensively on film, contemporary art, and LGBTQ+ media. Her work particularly focuses on “Boys’ Love” or “BL” manga (Japanese comics)—male-male romance comics primarily written by and marketed to women in Japan. Akiko has written two award-winning books on the subject in Japanese: Theorizing BL As a Transformative Genre: Boys’ Love Moves the World Forward (2015)[1] and Theorizing BL as a Transformative Genre (“Dialogue Edition”): Visiting the Sites Where Boys’ Love Is Born (2017)[2] which have been translated into Chinese and Korean.
While at the Suzy Newhouse Center, she will be working on a project entitled, Theorizing “Boys’ Love” as a Feminist and Queer Forum: The Male-Male Romance Genre in Japan and Across the Globe. A key question the book will ask is how to understand the relationships between an author’s sex, gender and sexual orientation juxtaposed with the representations they produce. Akiko has already theorized in the Japanese context the tension between the female authors’ capability in producing stories that function as models for a more gay friendly society and the injury that these women incurred in a misogynistic society that led them to produce and consume male/male narratives. To address this issue in greater depth and in a global context she will conduct comparative research on English-language gay fictions written by both male and female authors.
[1] BL shinkaron: bôizurabuga shakaiwo ugokasu (Tokyo: Ota-shuppan, 2015)
[2] BL shinkaron<taiwahen>: bôizurabuga umareru basho (Tokyo: Ozora-shuppan, 2017)
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Ashanti Shih Ashanti ShihMellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, Environmental Studies DepartmentI am an environmental historian studying race, settler colonialism, and the environmental sciences in the twentieth-century Pacific and American West. I’m interested in the complicated ethics of performing scientific and environmental work on Indigenous land and in relation to Indigenous and racialized communities. My first book, currently under preparation as Invasive Ecologies: Science and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i, explores this issue through a history of invasion biology, natural preservation, and the U.S. national park system in Hawai‘i over the long twentieth century. Invasive Ecologies is based on my dissertation, which won several awards, including the Rachel Carson Prize for best dissertation in environmental history from the American Society for Environmental History. My newer projects focus on Asian American relationships to nonhuman nature, species belonging, and the natural sciences.
Recently I have been engaging in more public history work, including working with botanical gardens and herbaria on their interpretive materials. I am also part of a team of historians working on a public-facing project about L.A.’s original Chinatown, a project which is sponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
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Susanne Sreedhar Susanne SreedharAssociate Professor; Philosophy Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (Boston University)Susanne Sreedhar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Her research focuses on the history of political thought, especially the social contract tradition. Her first book, Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2010. She teaches courses on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, history of philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
As a Newhouse fellow, she will be drafting second book manuscript, Hobbes on Sex, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. In this book, she argues that the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes engages in a project of dethroning, a deep and systematic process of stripping sexuality and gender of their privileged status as either a source of normativity or a topic of inquiry. She argues both that this dethroned view can be reconstructed from Hobbes’s various remarks on sexuality and gender and that it is logically entailed by his broader philosophical commitments and methodology. Her interpretation of Hobbes’s views on sexual normativity challenges traditional understandings of the trajectory of early modern political thought as a steady progression toward increasing liberalization and inclusivity. At the same time, it reconceptualizes the relationship between analytic political philosophy and theories of gender and sexuality by showing what happens when you take the latter seriously in the context of the former.
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Natali Valdez Natali ValdezAssistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Knapp Faculty FellowNatali Valdez is an anthropologist in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Wellesley College. Her work lies at the intersections of Black, postocolonial, feminist technoscience and medical anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on gender, race, and power in scientific knowledge production.
As a Knapp/Newhouse Summer Fellow, She will complete edits on her forthcoming book Weighing the Future (UC Press Fall 2021). Weighing the Future is the first ethnography of ongoing prenatal trials in the United States and United Kingdom. Studying prenatal trials reveals larger processes of late capitalism, surveillance, racism, and environmental reproduction in a postgenomic era. Valdez argues that science, and how we translate and imagine it, is a reproductive project that requires anthropological and feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, the book brings attention to how the present—the here and now—is at stake. She will also begin preliminary research on her next book project titled Postgenomic Reproduction and the Aftermath of Failure.
2020-2021 Fellows
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Soo Hong Soo HongWhitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought, Department of EducationSoo Hong is a sociologist of education who studies the relationships between schools and families/communities, exploring the impact of race, culture, social history, and political life. She explores the central role of families and communities in school transformation through models that emphasize parent leadership, community organizing, and democratic forms of participation. Hong is the author of the recently released Natural Allies: Hope and Possibility in Teacher-Family Partnerships (Harvard Education Press, 2019) as well as A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2011). At the center of her research and teaching is a desire to develop action-oriented research that is integrated with practice and grounded in the lived experiences of young people and families in urban schools.
While at the Newhouse Center, she will be working on a project, entitled “Essential Understandings: New Teachers’ Beliefs About Family and Community.” In this project, she will explore the beliefs and experiences of new teachers as they enter the classroom for the first time to understand the views and perspectives they bring about families into their work as educators, the questions and challenges they encounter, and the early experiences with students’ families that shape and influence their evolving practice as teachers.
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Veronika Fuechtner Veronika FuechtnerAssociate Professor of German, Dartmouth CollegeVeronika Fuechtner is an associate professor of German at Dartmouth College, where she also teaches comparative literature, Jewish studies, and women’s and gender studies. She also holds an appointment as adjunct associate professor in the department of medical education at the Geisel School of Medicine. Fuechtner is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (California, 2011) and co-editor of Imagining Germany, Imagining Asia (with Mary Rhiel, Camden House, 2013) and A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960 (with Douglas Haynes and Ryan Jones, California, 2017). Her research interests include the history of psychoanalysis and sexology, the relationship between science and culture, discourses on race and ethnicity, German-language modernism, contemporary culture, German-language film, and global cultural and scientific histories. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Psychoanalytic Association, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, and the American Academy in Berlin.
Abstract: Killer Jokes: The Lasting Laughter of German Humor on Colonialism and SlaveryGerman humor has such a profoundly bad reputation that even the idea of it has served as the butt of many jokes. One might think of Monty Python’s Killer Joke as effective warfare against the Germans, or of Mark Twain’s painful experience of the Awful German Language, which helped cement the stereotype that Germans are neither very good at producing nor at appreciating humor. While my project discusses many examples of the genre, it doesn’t answer the question of whether German humor might be funny. Instead, it explores when and why humor on controversial topics becomes socially acceptable, and when and why it ceases to be acceptable: how does the evaluation of humor shift over time and how do communities of laughter constitute, disband or go undercover? I engage these larger questions using visual humor on colonialism and slavery as it relates to dramatically shifting politics of the nation, gender and race from the 19th through the 21st century. My project thus subscribes to the notion that humor is never universal or based on automatic reactions, but always historically and culturally contingent and contextual.
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Sara Kippur Sara KippurAssociate Professor of French, Trinity CollegeSara Kippur is Associate Professor of French at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where she also serves as Chair of the Department of Language & Culture Studies (on leave in 2020-21). Her research is at the intersection of 20th-21st century French and Francophone literature, translation studies, cultural studies, and book history. She has published a scholarly monograph on modern and contemporary self-translators, titled Writing It Twice: Self-translation and the Making of a World Literature in French (Northwestern, 2015), and she is co-editor of the volume Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture, and Politics Today (Liverpool, 2016), which examines current, pressing issues in the field of French Studies.
While at the Newhouse Center, she will be working on her current book project, a literary history tentatively titled Transatlantic Pacts: America and the Production of Postwar French Literature. The book demonstrates how institutional shifts in the U.S.—in literary journalism, the expansion of Hollywood, the rise of television, and the explosion of the college textbook industry—transformed how French literature was produced and read both in America as well as, more surprisingly, in France itself. Drawing on archival collections in France and the U.S., Transatlantic Pacts examines a slate of unknown, and lesser known, literary materials to show ties between American cultural institutions and the writing of some of France’s most renowned postwar writers—authors such as Samuel Beckett, Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras, Romain Gary, Eugène Ionesco, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Irene Mata Irene MataAssociate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; Faculty Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship ProgramIrene Mata is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Faculty Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Wellesley College. She was born and raised in an immigrant family in the El Paso/Juárez border area and earned her BA and MA in English and Women’s Studies from New Mexico State University and her PhD in Literature from the University of California at San Diego. Her research interests include the analysis of gender, labor, immigration, and representation in contemporary cultural productions. She has also studied and published essays on how current globalization projects have impacted the lives of women on the U.S./Mexico border area and how those changes are represented.
Her first book, Domestic Disturbances: Reimagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration (UT Press), suggests a different way of looking at Chicana/Latina immigrant stories, not as a continuation of a literary tradition, but instead as a specific Latina genealogy of immigrant narratives that more closely engage with the conditions of immigration occurring in our current historical moment. Her current manuscript, Beyond the Moment: The Art of Resistance in Latinx Performance, engages with various texts that rely on previous moments of resistance to imagine new—and future—visions of social change.
Project description:
My project, tentatively titled Beyond the Moment: The Art of Resistance in Latinx Performance, seeks to explore the work of various cultural producers who use their creativity to tell stories of their communities’ fight for social justice and equality, while simultaneously focusing on uncovering the historical inspirations responsible for contemporary art, literature, and performance. In illustrating how earlier movements have impacted newer movements and their ideas of social justice, I situate the creative works of Luis Alfaro, Coco Fusco, Virginia Grise, Irma Mayorga, and the No Papers No Fear organizers, as forms of cultural activism that seek to both archive previous movements of struggle and to find ways to combine and reassemble these past forms of activism into dynamically intersectional modes of resistance that actively imagine more egalitarian futures. My project engages with these texts in an effort to build on an archive of struggle and opposition and document the cultural modes of resistance that are working towards an intersectional vision of social change. Ultimately, this project aims to contribute to the growing Chicanx/Latinx literature and theatre scholarship that centers the cultural productions of artists invested in using art as a tool for social change. -
Mary Kate McGowan Mary Kate McGowanMargaret Clapp '30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of PhilosophyMary Kate McGowan works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminism, philosophy of law, and their various intersections. She has published on the free speech status of (allegedly) harmful categories of speech (e.g., pornography and racist speech); she writes about silencing (ways that our ability to communicate can be interfered with), and she has written about the scope of a free speech principle (i.e. investigating which sorts of actions ought to be covered by one and why). Her book Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech, co-edited with Ishani Maitra, was published in 2012 also by Oxford University Press.
While at the Newhouse, she will continue work on Words in Action: A Textbook in Social Philosophy of Language. This is a textbook, co-authored with Ishani Maitra and under contract with Oxford University Press, and it is the first textbook in the exciting new subfield of applied (or social) philosophy of language. Chapter topics include: lying and deception, telling and testimony, silencing, jokes, consent, generics, slurs, linguistic oppression, sneaky linguistic devices, and language and law. Her next project is a public philosophy book on silencing. She hopes to start that project during the fellowship year. -
Lawrence Rosenwald Lawrence RosenwaldAnne Pierce Rogers Professor of English, Program in Peace & Justice Studies,Lawrence Rosenwald is the Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English at Wellesley College, where he has been teaching since 1980, and a member of the Advisory Board of the College's Program in Peace & Justice Studies. He has published work on diaries, translation, the relations between words and music, literary multilingualism, and antiwar literature. He has also published literary and scholarly translations from French, German, and Yiddish, and has written and performed some fifty verse scripts for early music theater pieces, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Voices of Music, Artek, and the Texas Early Music Project. His Newhouse project is a book about being a pacifist critic, about what pacifist literary criticism might look like.
Thanks to the generosity of Mary L. Cornille and Jack Cogan, Wellesley College is able to appoint each year the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. Cornille Professors are in residence for either a semester or a year. During this time, they contribute to the intellectual life of Wellesley College faculty with special attention to the intellectual growth of our undergraduates.
The Cornille Professorship is administered jointly by the Office of the Provost and by the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities, with which the Cornille Professor is automatically affiliated.
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Stephen Sheehi Stephen SheehiMary L. Cornille Professor 2021-2022Stephen Sheehi (he/him) leads the Decoloniality in the Humanities workshop this year. This workshop pivots around the critical question of whether the radical anti-racist and indigenous-centered possibilities and potentialities of radical feminist decolonial theories, methodologies, and praxis offer comprehensive reconceptualization and restructuring of teaching and scholarship or whether they are bound to be inevitably appropriated and recuperated by reformist discourses and practices that structure higher education and neoliberal education.
Prof. Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies in Asian and Middle East Studies Program and Modern Languages and Literatures Department at William & Mary. He is also the founding Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. He is a scholar of the 19th and early 20th century Arab world, Southwest Asian photography, Islamophobia and racism, and decolonial studies. As life-long anti-racist, anti-colonialist, and anti-capitalist activist committed to social justice and economic equality in the United States and the Middle East, Sheehi remains active within the Palestinian solidarity and BDS movements. He is the author of two forthcoming books on Palestine: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (with Lara Sheehi, 2022) and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories (with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, 2022). He is co-editing with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian a special issue of State Crime Journal, “Settler-Colonialism As State-Crime: Abolitionist Perspectives” (2022). He is also the author of Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910 (2016), Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (2011) and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (2004).
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Eve Zimmerman Eve ZimmermanProfessor of Japanese; Director, The Suzy Newhouse Center for the HumanitiesAs director of the Suzy Newhouse Center, I look forward to forging a collaborative and inclusive community of humanists around the Newhouse, building on the work of former directors. Interested Wellesley faculty can spend an afternoon, a semester, or a year in residence and are encouraged to contact me directly about projects large or small. External fellows reside for a few weeks, a semester, or a year. (Applications and guidelines will be posted soon.) We are setting aside funding for Newhouse courses that incorporate experiential learning and test new interdisciplinary modes of learning.
Recently, Wellesley joined the New England Humanities Consortium and this year we will share speakers with two other institutions in the region. Additionally, we plan to strengthen connections among scholars at our home institutions and provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration. Most importantly, the Newhouse Center will advocate strongly for all humanities faculty and students at Wellesley and engage in discussion with other disciplines across the college.
In my academic life, I teach and write about East Asia, particularly the fiction of postwar Japan. My first book is a literary “ethnography” of Kenji Nakagami, a key Japanese writer from the burakumin (outcaste) class. It gave rise to a second project on representations of Japanese folk architecture in photography. I have also been working on a second book on how the fluid category of “girlhood” is used by female writers and manga artists in postwar Japan to express views on gender, sexuality, and history.
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Lauren Cote Lauren CoteProgram CoordinatorLauren Cote received her Master of Arts in English in 2015. Although she was always interested in writing, she chose to study English literature after reading Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories as an undergraduate. This book is still one of her favorites, and is at the core of her outlook on the humanities as vast, interconnected fields in which human stories, ideas, and theories intertwine and build upon one another.
As program coordinator for the Suzy Newhouse Center, Lauren is responsible for overseeing event logistics and providing administrative support to the director and visiting fellows. When she is not working, you can find her baking bread, playing tabletop games with friends, or reading while her cat snoozes nearby.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
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Kayla Bobb Kayla BobbKayla is an Art History and Women’s and Gender Studies double major. Kayla’s research focuses on the evolution of Black Caribbean’s relationship to the gender binary from pre-colonialism to the present by exploring gender expression in Carnival.
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Maria Chi-Chable Maria Chi-ChableMaria Chi-Chable is a Women’s and Gender Studies major and prospective Cinema and Media Studies minor. Using borderland theory, Maria examines how the Mexican-American singer, Jenni Rivera, transmits images of border life, displacement, and the culture of working-class communities. As a proud daughter of immigrant parents, Maria is interested in examining how Rivera gives voice to the female migrant body.
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Stephanie Cobas Stephanie CobasStephanie Cobas ’21 is majoring in American Studies. Stephanie is focused on the representation of friendships featuring women of color in various American television shows.
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Isabella Garcia Isabella GarciaIsabella Garcia (she/her) is a senior double majoring in History and English & Creative Writing. As a Chicana, her research interests include the roles Latina activists and farmworker children played in the Chicano Movement of the greater Civil Rights Movement. Her research examines Dolores Huerta’s position in the Chicano Movement in relation to her place within Chicana, labor, and civil rights histories to assess Huerta’s overall representation in cultural resources available to young Chicanes, and how it affects their identity formation. Her project also uses Jessica Govea Thorbourne, another Latina activist, as a focal point to examine the roles young Chicanes played in the Farm Workers’ Movement through organizations such as the Junior CSO, and more broadly assess what it was like to grow up as part of the movement.
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Mateo Gariepy Mateo GariepyMy major is Women's and Gender Studies with a minor in Health and Society. The topic of my project is focusing on transgender students' process for applying to historically women's colleges and how they are supported during their college experience.
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Charnell Jones Charnell JonesCharnell JonesCharnell Jones '23 is double majoring in English and Women & Gender Studies. Charnell's research is focused on the presence of Black feminism and Black queer theory in 21st century literature.
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Neha Lund Neha LundNeha ’22 (she/her) is a sociology major and South Asia studies minor. Her MMUF project focuses on the racialization of South Asian tech workers in Silicon Valley through the lens of race, caste, and gender. Further engaging theories of racialization, orientalism, and postcolonialism, she is pivoting to explore identity formation within the Afghan Hindu diaspora for her senior thesis.
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Olivia Massie Olivia MassieOlivia Massie '22 is double majoring in Africana Studies and Music. Olivia's research is centered on Black & Indigenous anarchist praxis (though it is not always named as anarchy, and is not limited to just that word). They use Black & Indigenous anarchists/autonomists/freedom fighters/fugitives/maroons/land defenders/water protectors/musicians/poets/artists as anchors to think about how we move through struggle and how we finna get free. Further, Olivia is particularly interested in the Minneapolis Uprising.
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Sandra Riaño Sandra RiañoSandra Riaño ’21 is a double majoring in History & Women’s and Gender Studies. Using Chicanx decolonial frameworks, Sandra weaves together the contributions of the black and latino freedom struggle through an examination of the Black Panther and Young Lords Party. Paying particular attention to the development of a feminist political ideology by women in both parties, Sandra engages ideas surrounding liberation, self determination, and empowerment.
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TylerBell Smith TylerBell SmithTylerBell Smith '23 is a neuroscience and cinema/media studies double major. An avid reader and writer with a vested interest in film and cinema and how media can be used as tools to encourage critical thought responses and elicit empathy. Currently exploring the nexus between neuroscience and the social sciences and media depictions and perceptions of racial difference in film and television.
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Tyler Vargas Tyler VargasTyler Vargas ’21 is double majoring in Africana Studies and Sociology. Tyler is currently working on a project that examines the meanings of certain hairstyles for Black women.
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Deana Weatherly Deana WeatherlyDeana-Rae Weatherly ’22 (she/her) is an art history major. Deana-Rae's research focuses on iconographic images of Black women as a tool in the formation of Jamaica's national identity from the colonial era to the rise of dancehall. Taking on a post-colonial lens, Deana-Rae looks at how the images' stylistic choices reflect Jamaica’s colonial, economic, political, and social tensions.
Student Ambassadors
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Ada Eke Ada EkeAda is a member of the class of 2023 at Wellesley College, studying psychology and chemistry. They conduct student outreach for the Suzy Newhouse Center as the director of the Comic Book Club and can always be counted on to have candy and book recommendations on hand. They can be contacted at ae1@wellesley.edu if you have any questions about the club or just want to talk.
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Alexa Fronczek-Lewis Alexa Fronczek-LewisAlexa Fronczek-Lewis is a member of the green class of 2025 with a prospective double major in East Asian Studies and Political Science. They help the Suzy Newhouse Center with installations of different projects and various clerical work.