CCGRS Graduation & Awards Dinner photos
Melissa AllesThe fifth annual CCGRS Graduation & Awards Dinner was held April 18, 2017, at Banyans on the Ridge. Click on any photo to view in gallery.
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Recent publication from Dr. Shahani
Melissa AllesDr. Nishant Shahani‘s essay “Patently Queer: Late Effects and the Sexual Economies of India” was published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2017, Duke University Press) 23(2), Pg. 195-220.
Abstract
In 1998 the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis filed a writ petition against the Indian government to prevent local drug manufacturers from producing generic HIV and cancer medications. Rather than framing queer politics in India as a matter of state-sanctioned citizenship in which queers rally for legal rights, “Patently Queer: Late Effects and the Sexual Economies of India” considers this case of Novartis AG v. Union of India as a … » More …
Recent publication from Dr. Shahani
Melissa AllesDr. Nishant Shahani’s latest article, “How to Survive the Whitewashing of AIDS: Global Pasts, Transnational Futures,” has been published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Michigan State University Press, 3.1, Pgs. 1-33, 2016.
Book Bash photos
Melissa AllesThe Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies held its spring semester Book Bash on April 14, 2016. Here are a few photos from the event!
Graduation & Awards Dinner photos
Melissa AllesThe Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies held its annual Graduation & Awards Dinner on April 19, 2016. Here are a few photos from the event!
Dr. Gordillo awarded fellowship
Melissa AllesDr. Luz María Gordillo was awarded a 2016–2017 Library Resident Research Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society. This short-term residential fellowship supports scholarly research in the collections of the APS, a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture.
Drs. King, Thoma named Fulbright Scholars
Melissa AllesDr. C. Richard King, professor in CCGRS, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for his project “The Cultural Politics of Difference: Articulating Race, Culture, and Nation in Contemporary Austria.” The fellowship will be hosted by the Karl Franzens University Graz, where he will teach two courses in cultural studies and begin a new research project on ethnic, racial, and religious difference in light of the recent wave of refugees and ongoing concerns about terror and security.
Dr. Pamela Thoma, associate professor in CCGRS, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for her project “Gender and Citizenship in Asian American Literature and Culture.” The fellowship … » More …
Lizeth Gutierrez awarded grant
Melissa AllesLizeth Gutierrez (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) has been awarded a Mellon Mays Dissertation Grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
New “Sport in American History” blog post from Jorge Moraga
Melissa AllesJorge E. Moraga has published “Remembering Super Bowl 50 through a Mestiz@ Sport Consciousness” on the Sport in American History blog.
Remembering Super Bowl 50 through a Mestiz@ Sport Consciousness
On Saturday February 6, comedian Conan O’Brien commenced Super Bowl 50 by hosting the 5th annual NFL Honors. From introducing the evening’s purpose to be just like the Oscars, ‘if the Oscars nominated black people’, to later reviewing one of the ‘greatest plays’ of the 2015 regular season (when the entire St. Louis Rams franchise relocated to Los Angeles), O’Brien’s 11:02 opening monologue was a humorous, yet necessary critique to the permeation of raced and classed politics … » More …
V-Day at WSU Vancouver
Melissa AllesHere are a couple photos from V-Day at the WSU Vancouver campus, shared by Dr. Luz María Gordillo. A flash mob was formed and monologues were read!
