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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Digital Storytelling Workshop

GENDER, WOMEN, & SEXUALITY STUDIES' Digital Humanities Fellow, Lars Mackenzie, is offering a workshop to train instructors on how to create digital stories and incorporate digital storytelling into their graduate and undergraduate courses. Click on the form below to sign up.

I want to let you know about an opportunity for core faculty and graduate students in American Studies. I have been appointed the Digital Humanities Fellow in GWSS, and as part of my role as the Digital Humanities Fellow, I am offering a workshop to train instructors on how to create digital stories and incorporate digital storytelling into their graduate and undergraduate courses. During the 2014-2015 academic year, I will be inviting interested instructors in your department to bring their students to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center to produce digital stories. I will provide support and guidance to students producing and sharing digital stories, and tech support to instructors and students alike.
Digital Storytelling is the practice of crafting short narratives out of digital tools: photographs, videos, animations, music, and voiceovers. Digital stories are multimedia projects produced to share a story, an analysis, a history, a debate, or an archive through digital audio and visual elements. Digital stories are short, anywhere from 2-10 minutes, and they can be integrated into undergraduate or graduate courses to bring new form to the analyses and narratives that students are already engaging with during the semester. Digital storytelling offers a new platform to build, create, and share work done in the classroom. This tool is particularly well-suited to produce and share subjugated knowledges, create media and knowledge towards social justice ends, and to practice applying critical analyses of power, privilege, and the dominant narratives which construct and delimit lives.
Digital storytelling is a compelling and engaging pedagogical tool for students. As an instructor, you don't need to be tech-savvy to utilize this tool in your classroom. The programs (iMovie & Audible) we use to create digital stories are user-friendly, and I will be available both to train instructors on how to use these programs, and to provide tech support and guidance if you choose to bring your class to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center to create digital stories.
If you'd like to look at a few examples of digital storytelling, check out this link.
I will be offering a workshop for faculty and graduate students on August 27-28, from 9am-12:30pm (both days). In this workshop, participants will learn the basics on how to put together digital stories, practice using the programs, and have some engaged discussion on the politics of producing digital narratives. We will limit the workshop to 10 participants.
Please fill out this Google Form if you are interested in attending the workshop or in integrating digital storytelling into your course during this academic year. (Use information for the course you are interested in bringing to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center when filling out the form.)
Please forward this to core faculty and graduate students in your department!
Best,
Lars Z. Mackenzie

Topete receives DOVE Summer Fellowship

DANIEL TOPETE has received the DOVE 2014 Summer Fellowship.

Digital Humanities and New Media in History Position - CSU, Fullerton

THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT at CSU, FULLERTON is pleased to announce an open position for Digital Humanities and New Media in History Tenure-Track. Click here to learn more and to apply.

Landscapes of Injustice Postdoc Fellowship

RYNERSON UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Oral History as part of the Landscapes of Injustice. This partnership project aims to explore and narrate the history of the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Click here to learn more and to apply.

Concussions, Commotions, and Other Aesthetic Disorders CFP

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH is pleased to announce all call for papers for its annual graduate conference this November. The conference is titled Concussions, Commotions, and Other Aesthetic Disorders and will take place November 21st and 22nd. Click here to find out more and to submit a paper.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Marroquin-Norby named Director of McNickle Center

PATRICIA MARROQUIN-NORBY has been named Director of the McNickle Center for American Indian Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago Illinois.

Susie Hatmaker received PhD

SUSIE HATMAKER has received her PhD with her dissertation entitled, "Flooded in Sludge, Fueling the Nation: Generating Power, Waste, and Change in East Tennessee." Hoon Song, adviser.

Cheyne received PhD

MIKE CHEYNE has received his PhD with his dissertation entitled, "Sitcom Citizenship: Civic Participation within Postwar Suburban Sitcoms, 1952-1972." Kevin Murphy and Laurie Ouellette, advisers.

EARLY PCARD DEADLINE: Receipts due on 6/26

PLEASE SUBMIT RECEIPTS for all June PCard purchases to Zac by Thursday, June 26th. Note: the deadline is earlier than usual because of year-end reconciling, so please be sure to get receipts and coversheets in as soon as possible.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Matthew Basso wins Best Book Prize

MATTHEW BASSO, PhD 2002 has just won the Philip Taft Labor History Prize for the best book in labor and working-class history published in 2013 for his book "Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front.

Prospect New Orleans and Ogden Museum Call for Papers

PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS and OGDEN MUSEUM of SOUTHERN ART are pleased to announce a call for papers for their conference entitled "Thirty Years of Meaning and influence - Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson." Click here to learn more about the conference and to submit a paper.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

MELLON and ACLS are pleased to announce the opening of their Dissertation Completion Fellowships. Click here to learn more and to apply.

American Studies Senior Seminar Theses

THE AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT is pleased to present the titles and summaries of the theses written in this year's senior seminar. We are proud of all the great work they have put into their scholarship.

Lauren Godfrey's essay !Dale! explores the ways in which the
Latino culture is otherized in music videos that are performed by Latino pop artists. In this paper, Lauren offers a close and fascinating analysis of specific videos by the popular musical artists Bruno Mars and Pitbull; she argues Latino men are often depicted as violent while Latina women are sexualized.
In her essay, "What Are you?: The Identities and Experiences of Black/White Mixed Race Americans" Bethany Helen offers a compelling examination of the historical construction of race and racial categories in the United States, focusing on the identities and experiences of mixed-race Americans.
Kathleen Kane's paper entitled "Deselection in the Early Days of Peace Corps Training" addresses issues of race, gender, and class in the Peace Corps "deselection process" (whereby Peace Corps applicants were not selected or removed from the Peace Corps placement process. Kathleen argues that this was a fairly stressful process for Peace Corps volunteers (that involved, for example, psychological testing and observations) and those "deselected." The deselection process was also a contradictory ideological process that relied on normative understandings of race, gender, and class as the Peace Corps administrative officials sought to select and place volunteers they deemed "fit" for Peace Corps placement around the world. To develop her argument and paper, Kathleen interviewed former Peace Corps volunteers and examined primary and secondary sources.
Sarah Loschiavo's paper, THE GREAT ESCAPE, investigates the longstanding American fascination with the mafia and organized crime through an analysis of popular Hollywood
gangster films, focusing on two movies The Godfather and Scarface. In this paper, Sarah illustrates how gangster films produced stereotypes of Italian Americans and she also
argues that these films gave American citizens the vicarious experience of rebelling against society and the government.
Lucy Nieboer's "Through the Kitchen Window: Cultural Politics in the American Home as Seen in Cookbooks" offers a fascinating analysis of the gendered ideologies propagated
by American cookbooks. She offers a comparative analysis of cookbooks from the post-WWII period, an era known for cultural conservatism and a restrictive domestic ideology,
and the period after 9/11. According to Nieboer, " 9/11 sent popular American cookbooks of the early millennium into a tailspin of cultural-political regression," perpetuating norms
that we typically associate with the early 1950s.
In "Transformation of the Princess: How Gender Portrayal of Disney Princesses has Changed Over Time," Jennifer Rickert examines eleven Disney films, ranging from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 to Frozen in 2013. Jennifer argues that, although stereotypes persist in the representation of princess characters, gender roles in more recent films have become more expansive and flexible and the distinction
between masculine and feminine characteristics has become blurred.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Digital Arts Sciences + Humanities Graduate Summer Camp

DIGITAL ARTS SCIENCES + HUMANITIES (DASH) is offering a 5-day Summer Camp to University of Minnesota graduate students to introduce digital technologies and perspectives on how they relate to research and teaching. The application deadline is June 15th. Click here to learn more and to apply.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Spring 2014 Prelim Exams Milestones

THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS have passed their preliminary portfolio & oral exams and have attained doctoral candidacy: Matt Boynton, Aaron Eddens, Mingwei Huang, Katy Mohrman, and Tammy Owens.

Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines Teaching Consultant position

WRITING ACROSS the CURRICULUM, a UofM program is pleased to announce the opening of a Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines Teaching Consultant. Click here to learn more about the position and to apply. The requisition number is 191632

Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines Teaching Consultant position

WRITING ACROSS the CURRICULUM, a UofM program is pleased to announce the opening of a Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines Teaching Consultant. Click here to learn more about the position and to apply.