Dr. Anita Anantharam was on sabbatical during 2022-2023 and worked on her research supported by a Humanities Scholarship Enhancement award.
Dr. Kendal Broad continued writing about her research about (and with) an interracial group of gay men who were striving to do gay anti-racism in the 1980s, this year publishing a key article about that research in the journal Sociological Forum. Dr. Broad also had a busy year transitioning out of the Graduate Coordinator position and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level, mentoring undergraduate honor’s thesis student Miryam Elshaer, and working with two sociology PhD students (Sarah Paxson and Robert Baez) as they finished their degrees. Dr. Broad was awarded a sabbatical for 2023-2024 to visit archives and complete articles and a book manuscript about AIDS memory activism and gay antiracism.
Dr. Hilary Coulson taught several courses and hundreds of students for the department in the past year. She developed and taught a new Quest course called Novel Women. The class was full of bright students interested in exploring their identities using popular novels with themes about womanhood. Dr. Coulson is working on her second book (under contract) about leadership, with colleagues Dr. Frank Fernandez and Dr. Yali Zou. Her next book will explore generational leadership and incorporate themes of gender and race in the context of higher education leadership. In addition to teaching and writing, Dr. Coulson worked to support undergraduate advising with Dr. Alyssa Zucker. Through this work, Dr. Coulson recruited several new majors and minors to women’s studies and mentored undergraduate teaching assistants.
Dr. Maddy Coy is in the final stages of her book project about violence against women in the U.S. This year she completed a research collaboration with Dr Alyssa Zucker and Brittany Coleman of Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center, examining patterns in police and prosecutorial processing of sexual assaults. They won an ‘honorable mention’ for a poster about the study at the 2023 End Violence Against Women International conference. Dr Coy continued international teaching collaborations. She mentored an exchange student from Ukraine, hosted a Fulbright scholar from the Canary Islands, and was awarded a course enhancement grant from the Center for European Studies.
Dr. Jillian Hernandez published catalogue essays for the exhibitions All Eyez on Me: Hip Hop, Style, and Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin Germany. She also published public scholarship for Latina magazine and Refinery29. In summer of 2022 she was an invited participant in the Black Feminist Poethics seminar at the University of Michigan, and she served as the keynote for Texas Tech University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Annual Conference. Dr. Hernandez was a featured expert on issues of beauty, race, and gender in media outlets including Good Morning America, W Magazine, and Allure magazine. She presented work at La Chola Conference and the College Art Association conference, in addition to giving invited talks at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Bonnie Moradi coauthored several articles with collaborators, including an article on the hidden curriculum of academic writing (Moradi et al., 2023) and a citation network
analysis of publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly (Moradi et al., 2023). She was also invited to present her work on theoretical and empirical integration at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Gender Preconference and was a panel member for the UF Preparing Future Faculty Program.
Dr. Hina Shaikh continued work on her two-year grant from the National Humanities Center to collaboratively build a course on “Responsible AI Design” with faculty from seven other universities. She will teach the course “Gender, Race, and Worldbuilding with AI” in Fall 2023. She also helped to organize and moderate a panel for the National Women’s Studies Association with graduate students from the Department and presented in two panels herself. Throughout the year, Dr. Shaikh worked with six students in her Data Justice Lab to collect, analyze, and
communicate results to ommunity members for their project centering on K9 policing. This Spring, Dr. Shaikh was featured in the “On Humane Tech” series from Arizona State University where she discussed her forthcoming book project entitled “Fractured Patterns: The Search for Muslim Women in Data.” Additionally, Dr. Shaikh mentored two undergraduate students in completing their thesis projects and undergraduate degrees with honors.
Dr. Trysh Travis continued her work as Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Alyssa Zucker collaborated with graduate certificate student Hannah Brown and other colleagues outside UF to publish “Distinctly neoliberal: A latent profile analysis of neoliberal ideology and its associations with sociopolitical actions and sexual attitudes” in the journal Social Justice Research. She presented her scholarship at multiple conferences and is enjoying networking now that travel is possible again. As Experiential Learning Coordinator, Dr. Zucker developed relationships with six new sites where students can engage in internships and practicums in Alachua County, including Blossoming Butterfly, an organization dedicated to helping women diagnosed with cancer. As Undergraduate Coordinator, Dr. Zucker is looking forward to welcoming students to two new specializations within the Women’s Studies major: Health Equity and Social Justice and Race, Power, and Social Justice. These will be available to students starting in Summer B 2023.