From March 7-11, 2022, the Women’s and Gender Resource Center organized events for Gender Week 2022. In keeping with the theme for this year, Criminal (In)Justice, on March 8, Professor Amy McKiernan gave an impactful talk over Zoom entitled “Reciprocal Education and Community Healing on Death Row in Tennessee.” Professor Amy McKiernan (she/they) is an…
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…
During Thanksgiving week, stickers bearing the image of Adolf Hitler were placed on the Asbell Center for Jewish Life sign. These stickers, as well as stickers bearing heinous white supremacist slogans were also attached to a poster for the “Horace Pippin: Racism & War” exhibit. These two incidents are clearly connected, unfortunately drawing on a…