coe-staff: The Weekly Vol 2 #16

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,

The last couple of days were devoted to shooting video, taking photos, and collecting drone footage for graduation. Lisa, Adam, Tyler, Andrea, Celeste, other faculty and staff, and 20+ graduating students participated. Oh, there was a Duck, too. The sight of the happy students was uplifting for everyone.

Our academic programs, in collaboration with Juls Davis and Emily Barker, have also created much needed video content for our website. Here<https://youtu.be/DOYMlYOmWOI> is an example of a new video created by our Office of Development, another important collaborator.

Many thanks to everyone who has helped us substantially improve our digital presence. The elevated public profile that results from an engaging website helps us all meet our instructional, research, and outreach goals.

Wishing everyone well,

Randy

Updates and Upcoming:


  *   Omaris Zamora “AfroLatinx Feminisms” Talk: The Department of Romance Languages is hosting a talk by Omaris Zamora on: "Delectable Complicities From El Ni’ E: AfroLatinx Feminisms of Cardi B & La Bella Chanel” on Wednesday, May 12, 3:30pm. Pre-registration for the Zoom event is available here: https://tinyurl.com/psbe7fhe. Omaris Z. Zamora is Assistant Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is a transnational Black Dominican Studies scholar and spoken-word poet. Her research interests include: theorizing AfroLatinidad in the context of race, gender, sexuality through Afro-diasporic approaches. Her current book project tentatively titled, Cigüapa Unbound: AfroLatina Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation examines the transnational Black Dominican narratives put forth in the work of Firelei Baez, Elizabeth Acevedo, Nelly Rosario, Ana Lara, Loida Maritza Pérez, Josefina Baez, Cardi B, and La Bella Chanel. Zamora pays close attention to how they embody their blackness, produce knowledge, and shift the geographies of black feminism in ways that recognize the legacies of Chicana/Latina and Black American feminist theory in the United States, but tends to the specific experiences of AfroLatina women and their multiple genealogies. The manuscript proposes “tranceformation” as a continuous process that engages with the spiritual aspect of self-making and centers the body as an archive that creates and transmits an AfroLatina feminist epistemological theory. Her work has been published in Post45, Latinx Talk, Label Me Latina/o, among others and has been featured on NPR’s Alt.Latino podcast. She fuses her poetry with her scholarly work as a way of contributing to a black poetic approach to literature and cultural studies.
Accolades:


  *   Leslie Leve has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (https://mailchi.mp/educ.cam.ac.uk/the-knowledge-e-newsletter-4748218?e=2142376d44#VISITING%20SCHOLARS). From the Cambridge announcement of Leslie’s appointment, “… is a world-leading expert in adoption research and a specialist in the field of developmental psychopathology.” Please join me in congratulating Leslie on her receipt of this prestigious and well-deserved appointment.


  *   Leilani Sabzalian was quoted in this article<https://www.axios.com/ethnic-studies-education-schools-california-a2489eba-40e9-4fda-9de8-b8ad6083dc6e.html> of Axios, talking about how Ethnic-studies programs have grown in K-12 schools. Leilani is the only scholar commenting on the article and its content. Leilani represented us well and modeled the role we can all play in public scholarship. Thanks, Leilani!


  *   Matt Graham, Ph.D. in Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education and OESL Research Center faculty, was awarded a Spencer Foundation Small Education Research Grant with his colleague, Katherine Cheng of the University of Arizona, entitled, “Examining the Relation between Pre-service Teachers’ Implicit Racial Biases and Cortisol Response”. Many of you know Matt for his years of good work in Student Services in HEDCO 130. Matt, it is a delight to watch your career blossom. Continued success!



  *   Christi Boyter, Senior Advisor & Advising Center Operations Director, has accepted a new position as the Student Services Advisor III in the Office of Research and Graduate Education at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Christi has dedicated the past ten years to serving undergraduate students in the College of Education. Christi spent most of these years providing holistic student advising in the Family and Human Services Program before taking on her current leadership role. Christi has been instrumental in the college’s efforts to redesign the undergraduate advising infrastructure to better serve our students. Her leadership, dedication, and advocacy will certainly be missed; UC-Davis is gaining a phenomenal team member. Christi’s last day will be May 18th. Please take a moment to wish Christi farewell and best wishes cboyter at uoregon.edu<mailto:cboyter at uoregon.edu>.







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