Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences invites all members of the campus community to join our pre-doctoral diversity felllows for lunch, as they discuss their research and tell us about the classes that they are developing for Spring 2012.  This panel discussion will provide faculty members with an opportunity to meet our pre-doctoral fellows, and it will allow students to hear about their spring courses and to consider enrolling in them this spring.  Refreshments will be served.

This year, Humanities and Sciences is hosting three pre-doctoral diversity fellows, in the departments of Education, Communication Studies and English.  They are: 

Eric Hamako (Education): Eric is pursuing a Ph.D at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the Social Justice Education Program. His research focuses on ways to improve anti-racist curricula & pedagogy used in college student affairs & community settings, so that it better serves mixed-race participants and better teaches multiraciality. 

Christopher House (Communication Studies): Chris is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh in the department of Communication. His dissertation project is entitled, "Rhetoric(s) of The Black Church: Race, Religion & HIV/AIDS Across the African Diaspora.” It examines the rhetorical strategies, underpinnings and justifications of pastoral communication surrounding the HIV/AIDS crisis, which disproportionately affects people of African descent.

Shauna Morgan Kirlew (English): Shauna is pursuing her Ph.D in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, as well as a Ph.D in American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz in Germany. Shauna’s dissertation project investigates the ways in which 21st-century African American and African Diasporic literature engages neocolonialism, U.S. hegemony, and empire. 

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