At the February 24, 2022 Faculty Research Lunch, Professor Lynn Johnson presented her current work on psychodietetic narratives in African-American fictions. Professor Lynn Johnson is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Dickinson College. She specializes in African American literature, African Aesthetics, and African literary cultures. Her research focuses on African American literary production and…
The Africana Studies department hosted an event titled Fine Brown Frames, Diet, Exercise and “Ideal” Black Female Bodies in Postwar America given by Dr. Ava Purkiss. Her talk revolved around the beauty ideals that were projected onto black female bodies at this time which included physical beauty, exercise, and dietary standards that promoted diet culture…
“What’s the point of a space mission that can’t get anyone to space?” asked the head of NASA’s Space Task Force, Al Harrison, in the 2016 biographical drama Hidden Figures. Well, with the dedicated work of Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, the heroines of the film, NASA’s space program ~literally~ took off….