Dr. Anita Anantharam published the chapter, “Gender and Food Politics” in the edited book Asian Diaspora and Development (Routledge, 2020). She gave the keynote Address on “Ecofeminism” at the UF International i-Rec Conference for Sustainability and the Built Environment Resilience and was a panelist on “Diversity and Inclusion in Business” at the UF Inspiring Women Leaders Conference. She also presented at the U.S. Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship and Education Conference and the Women’s Leadership Conference. Dr. Anantharam received a UF Career Influencer award and was inducted into the Huy D. Huynh Hall of Fame. Through this honor, UF Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs recognizes outstanding leaders who have devoted themselves to representing and advancing the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) community at UF and beyond.
Dr. Kendal Broad transitioned from a 20-year joint appointment to being fully appointed in the Center this year. Dr. Broad gave an invited talk titled “Promises of Love: Emotional Mobilization?” on the Hippodrome stage for the Frank 2020 “gathering” organized by the College of Journalism and the Center for Public Interest Communications. In addition, Dr. Broad was a panelist with Dr. Randol Contreras for a celebration, organized by the Center for Latin American Studies at UF, of Dr. Rebecca Hanson’s and Dr. Patricia Richards’ book, “Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research.” Dr. Broad also presented a paper “Legacy Work: Intersectional Remembering & The Story of Saving Black Gay Lives and Those that Love Them,” at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Race at Monmouth University. As well, Dr. Broad coauthored (with colleagues Moradi, Parent, Weis, and Ouch) the article “Mapping the Travels of Intersectionality Scholarship,” published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly. Dr. Broad taught a new course on LGBTQ+ Movements and Critiques for undergraduates this year and designed a new course, How to be an Activist, approved for the Quest 2 initiative. Dr. Broad continues with research and writing about how a group of gay men in the 1980s storied their gay anti-racism. Finally, Dr. Broad is honored to remain as Graduate Coordinator for the Center and looks forward to continuing learning with graduate students and welcoming a new incoming cohort in the fall.
Dr. Manoucheka Celeste wrote this update in first-person. My contributions as Convener of the Intersections group, Intersections on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity, an initiative of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ends this summer. This group had a busy two years, which included a year-long lecture series, creating a digital archive, among other things. This past summer (2019), I traveled to Kigali, Rwanda for research on my current book project focused on representations of Black women’s grief and emotion on the African continent and in the African diaspora.
Like many scholars, my research trip to Ghana this summer was canceled but I look forward to making my way there as soon as possible. In the meantime, I continue to work on the ever-urgent project of understanding and mitigating [Black] death, pain, and grief, and also deepening an understanding of healing and belonging. In addition to research, I spent this past year presenting at conferences and campuses, doing varied service, and teaching theory (theory is fun). I was also a part of the 2020 Global Fellows Program. Additionally, I developed a new course, “Women & Media: International Perspectives,” to debut August 2020 as a part of the International Center’s Internationalizing the Curriculum program. My plans this summer, beyond work, include learning to grow food and plants as a novice gardener, breathing, reaffirming daily that my life matters, and staying away from Covd-19.
Dr. Maddy Coy continued to teach courses on Sexual Ethics in Fall 2019 and Violence Against Women in Spring 2020. She wants to celebrate all the students in her courses throughout spring semester for how brilliantly they managed the turmoil and anxiety of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shift to online teaching. The emerging evidence on how violence against women has increased globally under lockdown measures is alarming and Dr. Coy is seeking, with Dr. Uma Sarmistha, resources to explore how specialist services and victimsurvivors have coped. She continued to serve on the Advisory Council of the Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center and to work with colleagues from the Rape Crisis Center and Dr. Zucker on a project analyzing rape attrition rates in Alachua County. Dr. Coy has an ongoing collaboration as part of an inter-disciplinary team of USUK scholars working on faculty sexual misconduct, who are now working on papers and outputs from an international conference funded by the National Science Foundation. She co-authored a book chapter on pornographification in public space with Dr. Meagan Tyler (RMIT, Australia), and together they are working on a review of harms of pornography and the sex industry. She is honored to be joining the Center in fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Elizabeth Garcia received a Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She will be using this funding to conduct research on her new book manuscript Malcriadas: Feminist Disobedience in Latinx Young Adult and Children’s Literature. She developed and (Continued from page 12) taught a new Quest course titled “#Sayhername: Intersectionality and Feminist Activism.” She also received a course development grant from the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations to develop the course “Latina Narratives of Citizenship and Belonging” which she taught in spring 2020.
Dr. Laura Guyer’s teaching, research and service was recognized with the 2020 Presidential Service Award for Leadership and Service Advocate by the Brown Center for Leadership and Service. One hundred sixty-six students completed approximately 20,750 hours in the service learning capstone course Practicum in Health Disparities. They were assigned to more than 35 local and state safety net clinics, nonprofit health organizations and government agencies. Dr. Guyer’s unique approach to pre-medical education was featured in “How Can We Change Healthcare? Build Better Doctors” (Ytori Magazine) and “Unpacking Bias in Healthcare”, Episode 1 of UF’s newest podcast series, Unstoppable Minds. She collaborated with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) to create the Health Disparities Scholars Program and add it to eight existing courses in the AMSA Academy. She presented a webinar, “Health Disparities: The Roadblocks Preventing Health Care for All” in AMSA’s Health Care for all Scholars Program and delivered the invited keynote presentation, “Social Inequities, Dismantling Silos and Forging Effective Partnerships” at the annual meeting of the Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics.
Dr. Jillian Hernandez published the article “Racialized Sexuality” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature and a review of the exhibition Per(sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana, which was on view at the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University. She presented the paper “Black Redactions and Annotations in Pink: Sadie Barnette’s “Dear 1968…” as Revolutionary Daughtering” at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago in February 2020. Dr. Hernandez was an invited speaker at the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, in Colombia and is working with collaborators there on a gender and sexuality curriculum. She offered new courses for the Center on Latinx Sexualities and Critical Girlhood Studies and, with her Latinx Sexualities students, organized a successful exhibit featuring the students’ art at Moisturizer Gallery.
Dr. Bonnie Moradi and her coauthors published several articles on sexual minority women’s responses and resistance to objectification and on sexual minority people of color’s experiences of stigma and coping. She presented with a panel of Chairs and Directors at the 2019 National Women’s Studies Association conference. She was also invited to present on intersectional analysis and structural strategies to promote institutional equity and justice at the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, hosted this year at UF. She is currently co-editing an issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology on research methods and power and working with a group of UF colleagues on research funded by Bluenotes Global to investigate the influence of instructions and questions on students’ evaluations of teaching at UF.
Dr. Connie Shehan was awarded a University Term Professorship for 2019 -2022. Her current research focuses on reproductive issues facing teenagers and young adults. Two of her papers, coauthored with Dr. Melanie L. Duncan, are under consideration for publication in a new handbook about reproductive justice in literature. Dr. Shehan also continues as Editor of the Journal of Family Issues. She introduced a new graduate seminar in Women’s Studies entitled “Women and Aging” during the spring 2020 semester. Dr. Shehan is proud of her mentees who recently completed their degrees: Antionette McFarlane, who will receive her Ph.D. in Sociology in summer 2020 and Kaylee Kagiavas and Shyamala Engelhart, who completed their MA degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Dr. Trysh Travis served as the Historian-in-Residence in the winter season of the popular Stitcher podcast By the Book. In each episode the series hosts choose a self-help book and live by its premises, then discuss their outcomes. In this season, each episode focused on the bestselling book of a decade, from 1930-2000, and Dr. Travis offered historical context on the decade to explain the book’s appeal. She became a popular presence in the By the Book Facebook community, and received a t-shirt commemorating the season from fans there.
Dr. Alyssa Zucker published a paper “Grab ‘em by the masculinity: Changes in gendered beliefs and sexism following the 2016 US presidential election” in the journal Politics, Groups, & Identities. She continued to focus her research on the effects of sexism on women’s experiences of embodiment, politics, and violence. Dr. Zucker received a Charles T. Woods grant for a new project exploring connections between neoliberal ideology and support for LGBTQ+ rights. In the past year, Dr. Zucker presented her scholarship at conferences for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and the Association for Women in Psychology. She continued to serve as undergraduate coordinator for the CGSWSR and added the role of experiential learning coordinator this year as well. Dr. Zucker was honored to be the recipient of a 2019-2020 CLAS Faculty Advising/Mentoring award from UF and the 2020 StricklandDaniel Mentoring award from the American Psychological Association in recognition of her advising and mentoring work.