This is the last edition of the CSSH weekly newsletter for 2021. Publication will resume on Monday, January 10, 2022.
NEWS
Sarah Weihl, Human Services and Global Health '22, and Catherine Wenger, International Affairs '22, had only recently begun their research into the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis in Chemolingot, Kenya, when word of a new outbreak elsewhere in the country reached them. Led by Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, they helped digitize and build a database for medical records at the Chemolingot Sub-District Hospital and increase awareness of the disease.

Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics
Professor of Law and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; University Distinguished Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center
Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Coordinator of Digital Integration Teaching Initiative, has published an article entitled “Button Rhetorics” in Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Megan Denver, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice for the project "All Reentry is Local: Evaluating a Strategy to Reenter State Prisoners through Local Correctional Systems."
Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion, and Megan Goodwin, Visiting Lecturer of Religion, published an op-ed in the National Teaching & Learning Forum. "Training Public Scholars from a Social Distance" describes the work conducted by their program, Sacred Writes, and what they have learned about instructional design, community building, and accessibility during the pivot to online teaching.
EVENTS
Faculty Works-in-Progress: Reckonings Fellowship 2021-22

Monday, December 13
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. Presenters include Suzanna Danuta Walters, Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of History; and Alanna Prince, English PhD candidate.
A Conversation with Lisa Sanders, MD

Tuesday, December 14
5:00 - 6:00 PM
 
Lisa Sanders, Yale University, will be in conversation with Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,
Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of NULab.
Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students | Book Launch & Conversation with Experts

Wednesday, December 15
1:30 - 3:00 PM
 
The English Department is excited to announce a book launch party and conversation with experts for Professor Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students.
In her book, Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, takes a unique insider-outsider perspective and adopts digital ethnographic methods to examine the lived first-semester languaging experiences among 12 Chinese undergraduate students studying in American higher education.