Dr. Anita Anantharam published an article on transformative pedagogy through study abroad and service learning in the journal Frontiers of Contemporary Education. She presented on Diversity and Inclusion in Business at UF’s annual “Inspiring Women Leaders Conference.” Dr. Anantharam continued her service and collaboration at UF and nationally, including serving as a US State Department Critical Language Scholarship Program reviewer and Scholarship Campus Advisor.
During this complex and challenging year, Dr. Kendal Broad took great value in collaborating with colleagues, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students of the Center. In addition to continuing as Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Broad was pleased to participate in a Queer job panel with Pride Student Union and to think and study with both undergraduate and graduate students in new learning environments (online and “Hyflex”). As well, Dr. Broad published “Re-Storying Beloved Community: Intersectional Social Movement Storytelling of Antiracist Gay Liberation” in a leading social movements journal (Mobilization) and was able to work on a second related article thanks to support rom the Charles T. Woods Grant Faculty award. Finally, Dr. Broad is honored to continue work with six PhD students doing amazing queer and trans sociology (as an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Sociology, Criminology & Law).
Dr. Manoucheka Celeste spent this past academic year teaching and working on various projects. This summer, she is looking forward to traveling and spending time with her communities. Dr. Celeste was selected as the winner of the Beyond120 Research Mentorship Award in Humanities. See page 15 for details on Dr. Celeste’s work as the inaugural Black Affairs Faculty Fellow this year.
Dr. Maddy Coy joined the Center as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2020. She taught a graduate course on Feminist Methods in Research and Scholarship in fall 2020 and undergraduate courses on Violence Against Women and Sexual Ethics in spring 2021. She is profoundly grateful to the students for their grace and patience with the challenges of online and Hyflex classes. Dr. Coy continued her research with Dr Alyssa Zucker on attrition of sexual assault cases, in partnership with the Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center. A team of undergraduate researchers who have worked on the project have delivered several brilliant local presentations and co-authored an editorial for the Alligator about the importance of focusing on perpetrators of sexual assault. Dr Coy was honored to receive a grant from the Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund to explore feminist activist conceptualizations of “violence against women,” to support a book she is writing on violence against women in the U.S.
Dr. Jillian Hernandez published her book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Duke University Press), which was recently awarded Honorable Mention for the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association. Aesthetics of Excess has been covered in media including the Miami New Times, Bitch Magazine, Art Burst Miami, Ideas on Fire, and Fresh Art International. She won a Getty Residential Scholar grant for Spring 2022 to work on her next project on femme of color aesthetics and gave invited talks at the Museum of Modern Art PS1, Rutgers University, the University of California San Diego, University of Colorado Boulder, Virginia Commonwealth University, Florida International University and other institutions. She curated a Spring/Summer 2021 speaker series at UF through a Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere grant on the theme Radical Femininity: Women of Color Imaginaries, New Political Iconographies. Dr. Hernandez also published an invited book review in the March 2021 volume of American Quarterly.
Dr. Bonnie Moradi and her coauthors published several articles, including a citation network analysis of intersectionality scholarship and a study on women’s critical consciousness and well-being. For the latter article, they won the Research on Psychotherapy with Women Award from the American Psychological Association Society for the Psychology of Women. Dr. Moradi made several national presentations and an invited presentation on intersectional analysis and institutional equity and justice to the UF Faculty Senate. She is co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, titled Qualitative Research: Method, Power, and Process.
Dr. Connie Shehan continued her role as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Family Issues. She also worked with coauthors on several articles on reproductive health and justice. This year, Dr. Shehan chaired the Graduate School’s Teaching Award for Graduate Student Instructors committee, served on the International Committee for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, and pursued pedagogical innovations and trainings, including the Ms. Classroom Workshop on teaching gender, sexuality, and women’s studies courses online in the time of COVID.
Dr. Trysh Travis was a featured expert on the history of self-help and substance abuse on the podcasts “Pursuit of Happier” and “Flash Forward.” Her essay “On Bluebird Trail,” which examines historical changes in the way feminists retrospectively construct the experience of sexual aggression, appeared in the anthology Feminist Pilgrimage, edited by Stacy Russo (Litwin Press). She delivered presentations on “White Privilege and White Fragility in Historical Context” to UF’s Department of Occupational Therapy, the Docents Corps at the Harn Museum of Art, and the inaugural CxUF Conference on “Keeping it Real,” and spoke on “Where is Behavioral Health in the History of Medicine?” at the annual conference of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Dr. Alyssa Zucker published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Together with Dr. Maddy Coy, she supervised three undergraduate researchers and one recent alum working on a project tracking outcomes of sexual battery cases in Alachua County, seeking to understand opportunities to improve justice for victim-survivors of rape and other forms of sexual assault. As undergraduate coordinator she learned the joys and efficacy of Zoom office hours, something she will retain as an option even post-COVID. As experiential learning coordinator, she developed a new class, Feminist Futures, to focus on professional development opportunities for Women’s Studies students. Dr. Zucker is honored to have served as the faculty champion for UF’s new LGBTQ+-focused living learning community and thrilled to have chaired two successful job searches this year. She is excited about the new opportunities for the Center and UF in the coming years because of these advancements.