Dawn Archey, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Mathematics, co-published with Professor Linda Slowik, Professor Xiaohui Zhong, Professor Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, and Provost Pamela Zarkowski “Understanding How Social Support Alleviates Work Interference with Family among Faculty” in the Journal of the Professoriate. This work is based on analysis of the data from the Faculty Workplace Experiences Survey that they conducted to study gender differences in workplace climate, especially as they impact women in STEM. The study received an NSF ADVANCE grant. https://caarpweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/social_support_alleviates_work_interference_slowik_et_al._12-2-2.pdf
Greg Grobis, Associate Professor and Chair of Performing Arts, received a Fulbright Hays GPA Brazil Trip scholarship and will be studying in Brazil in July 2022. Based on this and other research he will develop a Theatre and Social Change project called “Unheard Voices” which will be centered on gender and LGBTQ issues of oppression. Professor Grobis plans to use methods from A. Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to create this project for presentation in April 2023.
Amanda Hiber, Associate Director of the WGS Program and Senior Lecturer in English, led the post-show discussion of the Theatre Company’s production of The Addams Family Musical, focusing on Morticia and Wednesday Addams as Goth feminist cultural icons.
Hsiao-Lan Hu, Director of the WGS Program and Professor of Religious Studies, published “Buddhism and Liberation of Gender and Sexual Minorities: From Anātman to the Bodhisattva Ideal” in Faith(s) Seeking Justice: Dialogue and Liberation, published by the World Council of Churches. Ze presented “Multiply Queered, Singularly Queered, Victimhood, and Spiritual Growth” at the conference Queering Religious Paradigms: Critical Approaches to Gender & Sexuality/-ies in Religious Thought and Practices. Dr. Hu gave a public talk “Perceiver of the World’s Cries—Avalokiteśvara Practices and Queered Identities” held by the Zen Mountain Monastery. As the current Vice President of Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women, ze also organized the 17th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women that took place in December 2021 and had 1,080 attendees from around the globe. Ze has a collaborative project with Dr. Sharon Suh of Seattle University and Dr. Tamara C. Ho of University of California, Riverside, entitled “Asian American Feminist Guidebook to Teaching Buddhisms in America.” Hir manuscript Identity and Unhappiness: A No-Self-Help Book for the Misfit is to be published in the Hauntings series by the New York University Press.
Genevieve E. Meyers, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, presented a paper “Public Sector Workforce Development in Uganda: Transitions and Trajectories in Gender Equity” at the American Association of Public Administration Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida. She is revising the paper for possible publication.
Allegra Pitera, Professor of Architecture and Community Development, is currently researching Architecture History & Theory topics and examples that provide a more diverse, balanced, nuanced, and non-western-centric worldview. The intention is to work collaboratively with other faculty to update the undergraduate Architecture History & Theory courses. To best engage students in critical thinking along with effective learning and application outcomes, best practices in the methods of content and delivery, discussion, and assessment are being explored.