CiAuna Heard (Women's and Gender Studies) and Loretta J. Ross, Smith College, discussed historical and contemporary activism in the Reproductive Justice movement, and coalitional negotiation within progressive social movements. Watch the video recording (available through 2/9/23).

Dear College Faculty and Staff,

As we enter the middle of Winter Quarter, I want to shine some light on our REAL Program. Applications for experiences during summer 2023 are now open, and we are encouraging students to find and apply to internships through the program’s database or apply for funding for an experience they already have locked in or are considering.

Since the program’s inception in 2018, we have supported over 550 student experiences across every department and distributed roughly $2.2 million to our students! This year, we have raised the maximum amount students can receive from $5,000 to $6,000. I also want to note that our international students are eligible to apply.

As you could probably guess, many of the student experiences that we have funded the past couple years have been a mix of virtual and in person. This year, we are happy to report that we are able to return to fully in-person experiences! While there is value in virtual experiences, we are very excited to be able to support students getting back out into the workplace or being mentored in-person by our wonderful faculty as they explore the possibilities for their futures.

We have a number of upcoming information sessions available for students to learn more and get their questions answered. The next one is taking place on Thursday, February 9 at noon in the DISC (SCDI 2306).

Please encourage your students to learn more and apply!

Sincerely,

Daniel

Highlights

What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris (English) has been nominated for a 54th NAACP Image Award in the category: Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. Winners will be announced in late February.

The 54th NAACP Image Awards is recognized as the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African American point of view. This event celebrates outstanding achievements and performances in the arts, as well as individuals and groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors.

Percentage of academic editors who self-publish at given rates.

Molly M. King (Sociology) was invited to write a piece for Nature News and Views analyzing a concurrently published article. She discusses how the research finds that publication records of academic editors show that one-quarter of them publish 10% of their own papers in the journals they edit and reveals that fewer than 10% of editors-in-chief are women. She found both of these findings surprising and, in her commentary on the piece, has some suggestions for ensuring unbiased review and facilitating equitable selection of editors. She suggests novel ideas for diversifying journal editors, including mechanisms for using lotteries to choose editors and editors-in-chief of journals.

Brita A. Bookser (Child Studies) presented her research at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ, and virtually via Zoom. First, Brita presented her paper, "Trapdoor Exits from Early Learning Opportunities: Dimensions of Extra-Exclusionary Discipline in Preschool Contexts" in the symposium, "Institutional Sources of (In)Equity in PreK-12 Education: Systems-Change Social Work Research, Policy, and Practice," which included colleagues Melanie Sonsteng-Person, Ph.D. (University of Florida), Andrea Joseph-McCatty, Ph.D. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and Tasha Keyes, Ph.D. (California State University San Marcos). Brita's empirical paper discusses unregulated, undocumented forms of exclusionary discipline with an eye toward structural constraints and opportunities to promote educational equity in the early years. Second, Brita collaborated with Sonsteng-Person, Joseph-McCatty, Keyes, and Jelena Todić, Ph.D. (University of Texas at San Antonio) to facilitate the roundtable, "'New Terrains of Justice': Directions for Systems-Change Research and Praxis Spanning the PreK-12 Educational Continuum." This roundtable responded to Angela Davis’s (2003) abolitionary call to envision “new terrains of justice,” with specific attention to critical directions for social work research and praxis in preK-12 settings.

Juan Velasco-Moreno (English) delivered a reading of his creative writing work, on January 4, 2023, at the Manakisanti Cultural Center (Leon, Spain). The reading focused on his poetry book, Massacre of the Dreamers, and his memoir, 1988:NY-LA (Chronicle of an American Journey), a travel narrative based on a car trip from New York to Los Angeles. The reading was followed by a series of interviews and reviews printed in Spanish Media.

Mateo J. Carrillo (History) presented an invited paper "Disparate Development, Gendered Geographies: Ejidos, Inequality, and the Maquila Industry in Ciudad Juárez" for the Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series at Stanford University. The lecture took place at Stanford's Bolívar House on January 20, 2023. It focused on the urbanization of communal lands (ejidos) in Ciudad Juárez and how this process shaped the rise of multinational factories (maquiladoras), inequality, and gendered violence in Mexico’s northern borderlands. Incorporating Google Street View and GIS imagery, the lecture explored how Juárez’s modernization regime—embodied by Mexico’s first private maquiladora industrial park which occupies former ejidal lands—forged disparate landscapes of investment and infrastructure, processes that informed not only femicide patterns in Juárez but neoliberal reform in Mexico.

In this figure, Michelle is illustrating the continuum of primate habitats, from dense forests to lab/research centers, and how human activities may influence primate lives. Within habitats, primate lifeways are influenced in varying ways (radiating circles). For example, the degree to which a non-human primate individual responds to human interactions is dependent on previous exposure. Habitat structure can impact primate movement capabilities from activities including forest use/selective logging to the extreme of human-built structures that house primates in research labs.

Michelle Bezanson (Anthropology) published a chapter in Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioural Flexibility Across Human Contexts. Michelle once found herself saying she would never do another book chapter again. Edited volumes are extremely important but her experiences had not been great. Publication delays, editor delays, and wondering who the volume served made these contributions (in her discipline) challenging. However this volume moves in the direction of engaging and reflecting on a contemporary mode of primatology. The authors, the topics, and the framing of the chapters represent multiple continents and countries, backgrounds, languages, and disciplinary trainings/histories. In addition, this book focuses on the fact that human and nonhuman primate lives exist in varied tangled up relationships. Rather than merely adding humans to the mix, the chapters focus on integrated approaches and presents the frameworks necessary to prevent the extinction of primates and their habitats. Michelle collaborated with Partha Sarathi Mishra (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India) and Michelle Rodrigues (Marquette University) on the chapter titled "Perspectives on the Continuum of Wild to Captive Behaviour."

This Winter quarter, Laura Ellingson (Communication) will teach an OLLI@SCU course on understanding the LGBTQIA+ community. The class will introduce discussions of biological sex and gender, and cover identities and the implications of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws. Updated from her 2020 OLLI@SCU course, she will now discuss the science of gender confirmation surgery and intersex babies. OLLI members will finish the course with the knowledge of how to interact with and support the LGBTQIA+ community with tolerance, compassion, and kindness.

OLLI@SCU will be featuring SCU instructors periodically in College Notes. The average course ranges from 4 to 10 hours of instruction per quarter. We hope this will inspire you to stay updated on OLLI news and possibly teach a class for our members. OLLI instructors are compensated for their time and knowledge; to learn more about the joy of teaching adult learners, contact olliatscu@gmail.com.

Last week, Theresa Conefrey (English) delivered a presentation with Helen Chen (Stanford) and Stephen Fallowfield (IUPUI) at the AAC&U Annual Conference on Reclaiming Liberal Education. Their talk, "Disciplined Practice: Experiences from ePortfolio Educators across Disciplinary Contexts," was based on their submissions for a 2023 Across the Disciplines Special Issue on ePortfolios in the Disciplines, which explores how ePortfolio pedagogy can be implemented to support equitable, engaged learning, and authentic assessment.

Image: Stephen Fallowfield, Helen Chen and Theresa Conefrey at the AAC&U Annual Conference.

Tom Plante (Psychology)'s invited lead article, "What is Catholic Psychotherapy and How Should It Move Forward?" was published in the inaugural issue of Integratus: The Journal of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association 1(1), 7-17.

Catholic psychotherapy is a critically important specialization that underscores the need for culturally competent best practices. It integrates state-of-the-art psychotherapeutic professional services with the rich religious, spiritual, and cultural contributions and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. Since the Church is the single largest religious denomination in the world and represents about a quarter of the United States population, there is ample need for Catholic-informed and engaged psychotherapists with expertise in working thoughtfully and sensitively with Catholic clients, including laypersons and clerics, and with Church institutions such as schools, hospitals, and charitable groups. This article reflects on two central questions: What is Catholic psychotherapy, and who are good candidates to provide and receive these specialized services? It also offers examples of cases that fit well into the Catholic psychotherapy approach, and it discusses future directions as well as potential ethical challenges.

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