P茅rez y Gonz谩lez was one of only three honorees, recognized for her lifelong dedication as a scholar, educator, and former chair of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies. The award was presented by Deputy Mayor Ana J. Almanzar at the mayor鈥檚 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration on October 9 during a ceremony led by the Community Affairs Unit. The event highlighted leaders whose work has shaped the cultural and intellectual landscape of Latino communities in New York and beyond.

For more than 33 years, P茅rez y Gonz谩lez has been a guiding force in higher education, mentoring students from all backgrounds, advancing the field of Puerto Rican and Latinx studies, and amplifying the voices and histories of Latino communities across the United States. Her most recent work is (Centro Press, 2021), which she co-edited with Professor Emerita and prominent U.S. historian Virginia S谩nchez Korrol.

Deputy Mayor Ana J. Almanzar (left) presents Mar铆a E. P茅rez y Gonz谩lez with the Citation of Honor on October 9 at the Mayor鈥檚 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.

As the co-director of the Mar铆a E. S谩nchez Center for Latinx Studies, P茅rez y Gonz谩lez has coordinated lecture series and workshops, implemented undergraduate research assistantships, and partnered with campus entities to bring forth academic and cultural campus-wide programming focused on Latino communities. The center is named in honor of Mar铆a E. S谩nchez, who served as the chair of the nascent Department of Puerto Rican Studies from 1974 to 1989 during the economic recession and its aftermath, in which she successfully led the four-year-long struggle for departmental self-determination, co-founded the widely acclaimed Bilingual Teacher Education Training Program, and ensured Puerto Rican studies would be part of what became the nationally recognized Core Curriculum.

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A child of a family of Dominican poets, writers, and educators, Luisa Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso 鈥�79 enrolled in 可乐视频 and immediately began connecting with the community of Latino and Black Caribbean students. After graduating with a Sociology and Latin American History Studies degree, Vicioso earned a master鈥檚 degree in educational program design from Columbia University and did post-graduate studies in cultural administration at Funda莽茫o Getulio Vargas in Brazil. She has worked for over 20 years at the United Nations specializing in women鈥檚 issues and education.听A promoter of Dominican women poets, Vicioso has supported their work throughout her career. She was appointed as the ambassador for women鈥檚, children鈥檚, and youth affairs for the Foreign Relations Ministry in her native country. In 2012, she was the vice presidential candidate for the Alianza Pa铆s party. The author of numerous publications, including plays, volumes of poetry, essays, short stories and novels, today, Vicioso is working on a English publication of her novel Sireno (2020) and has begun her next, titled Nuyol, about the first Dominican immigrants to arrive in 1896 New York.

Can you tell us about your background?

I was born into a family of artists. My grandfather was a journalist and poet in charge of the social chronicles of the leading newspaper on the island: The Listin Diario. My father, Tony Vicioso, revolutionized poetry and music on the island. He and my mother Maria Luisa Sanchez led a cultural group that questioned the rigid cannons we had inherited from Spain. My father was also a musician. He played seven instruments, and after he traveled to the U.S. on a scholarship for winning a painting prize, he traveled to the South. He revolutionized Spanish boleros with blues and other southern rhythms.

What decided you on 可乐视频?

In 1965, President [Lyndon B.] Johnson enacted a law requiring all universities that received federal funding to enroll minorities. 可乐视频 reached out to the Hispanic community, and eight other Dominicans and I were enrolled, with the generous help of Puerto Rican students. We subsequently met with Black students and students from other parts of the Caribbean, which provided us with new knowledge about the region since we thought the Caribbean was only 鈥淭he Greater Antilles,” which includes Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. We formed the Third World Peoples Alliance, and that is also how I learned about the great thinkers of Jamaica, like Marcus Garvey, Martinique鈥檚 Frantz Fanon, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, and leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Angela Davis, among many others. My Caribbean vision expanded.

Did you enter college knowing what career you wanted?听

When I enrolled, I ignored what career to choose. Six months enrolled and I was ready to abandon college for what I felt was the lack of intellectual challenges and debates. At the time, everyone seemed in a hurry to finish their career and get a job. I was bored. But then I met several professors essential for my intellectual development and human values. Of those, Prof. Hobart Spalding taught me to always look for the other side of the story and history. Everything I learned about my own history as a Dominican and Latino woman I owe to him. I consider Professor Huebner the best philosopher I have ever met. He taught me to love the discipline and is only surpassed by Herbert Marcuse and Eric Fromm, whom I met through him. To this day, Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man are books that I always recommend. I owe my professors and the university my intellectual development and sense of identity.

There was a time when women鈥檚 voices were less prominent in Dominican literature. Could you speak about that?

When I returned to the Dominican Republic all the female poets complained about not being taken听seriously and not being able听to publish, so I created听The Circle for Women Poets so we could promote our own work and that听of previous poets ignored or dismissed by the literary establishment. We also highlighted the work of peasant women who had a very particular听way of expressing themselves poetically.听I wrote the first book of feminist听literary听criticism influenced by the work of Elaine Showalter called Algo que decir, Something to Declare. The kind of aggression听against us from the patriarchy that听we received was enormous.听So I introduced what I call 鈥淐ultural Guerilla Warfare,鈥� which means that听when they听closed听the door to us as poets, we wrote essays; when they closed听that听door,听we wrote theater. I earned the National Prize in Theater Cristobal de Llerena听for my first play Wish-ky Sour. It was the first time it was awarded to a woman in the Dominican Republic; that only won me more backlash. But I also learned听resilience听in the United States, so no small island was going to defeat me or any of the Dominican women poets and writers.

You have been involved in non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations and ran for vice president in the Dominican Republic in 2012.

I worked 22 years at the United Nations and UN.-related听NGOs on women issues and education. I also ran for the vice presidency with presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno of the Alianza Pais Party, while working for the Ministry of Foreign Relations as an ambassador for women, children, and adolescent issues. It was quite an experience.

What are you are doing/working on today?

I am working听now on launching my novel Sireno and its translation into Portuguese in Brazil.听I already launched it in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Jose Saramago Foundation.听Hopefully,听in July, I will start听writing my next novel, Nuyol, about 1896 New York, when the first Dominican immigrants听arrived in the听U.S.

What advice would you give to today鈥檚 students?

I would advise students to be curious, read, and research.听Do not take any knowledge听or viewpoint for granted.听University education听will then be exciting and challenging.听Not doing so can only contribute to your homogenization and that听is a waste of your uniqueness听and intelligence.

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Lisette Nieves ’92

Lisette Nieves 鈥�92 understood from an early age what helping others could look like. While growing up in Brooklyn, she witnessed her hardworking parents give friends a place to stay when they had nowhere else to go or help neighbors who were struggling financially to get back on their feet. While still in high school, she joined the City Volunteer Corps, working in one of the first AIDS wards in New York City in the early years of the disease. She went on to 可乐视频, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Nieves was the first Puerto Rican woman and the first 可乐视频 graduate to become a Rhodes scholar. She went on to earn advanced degrees from Oxford, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Nieves鈥� illustrious career includes becoming a public sector leader, social entrepreneur, and an adviser to President Obama. In 2005, she founded Year Up NY, an innovative workforce development program. Today, she is the president of the Fund for the City of New York, overseeing programs that support excellence in government and nonprofit organizations with a focus on underserved communities. Here Nieves talks about the importance of service and activism, how the experiences of 可乐视频 students today mirror her own, and what she learned on a recent return to campus.

Could you tell us about your experience as a Rhodes scholar?

可乐视频 was鈥攁nd still is鈥攁 campus full of first-gen students from around the world. When I went to Oxford, there were levels of entrenched privilege. Students came from four and five generations of college education. I was only one of two of the 32 Rhodes scholars whose parents did not have a college degree. (Mind you, my parents were super bright!) At Oxford, I met a radical group of Irish working-class, first-generation students, and I became much more aware of what was happening in the world outside of the United States. A dear friend of mine from South Africa was going home to vote for the first time ever. And I鈥檓 thinking, 鈥淥h my God, will he come back?鈥� There was a realization of what I could do鈥攍ike vote鈥攖hat others couldn鈥檛.

You are the founding executive director of a program for young adults called Year Up New York. How did that come to be?

听So many young people have to hustle to get an education, particularly one that will get them a decent-paying job after graduation. I founded Year Up to create a path to social mobility and give talented young adults access to skill-based training without the financial burden. I have had the pleasure of identifying talented young people, first convincing them that they can succeed in whatever they choose to do, and then colleagues at Year Up, that they belong in the program. I鈥檓 grateful that I get to be a part of that, helping to set folks on the path to success. It鈥檚 something so much bigger than myself.

You鈥檝e also had the incredible opportunity to work with the White House. What was that like?

After Oxford, I was recruited for AmeriCorps, a program of national service and volunteerism created by President Bill Clinton in 1993. I was first a program officer for the northeast United States, then a senior program officer. My job was to work with and support AmeriCorps鈥� state commissions. We were so young and worked tirelessly to expand the program.

In 2011, I was appointed a commissioner to President Obama鈥檚 Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. I co-chaired the higher education subcommittee on the advisory commission with Dr. Luis Fraga from the University of Notre Dame. We worked with educators, policymakers, researchers, and scholars across the United States to understand what was happening around the outcomes for Hispanic students at all levels. There is a gap in access and achievement for Latino P-12 and higher ed students. So much of the data was about the persistence of the gap, access, and transition to employment. Working on the commission inspired me to do my Ph.D. in higher education and management.

Can you talk about the Fund for the City of New York?

The Fund for the City of New York works as an intermediary between government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations to enhance the function of government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Public services keep our city running and its employees deserve our support.

Our Partnership Program provides back-office operations and resources to 90 organizations across the city, and we are one of the biggest lenders through our Cash Flow Loan Program. The fund has been a provider for the American LGTBQ+ Museum in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Cultural Museum of African Art in Bedford-Stuyvesant. So we also work to make the city a richer place culturally. And then there are programs that we support such as the NYC Employment and Training Coalition that fortifies our city鈥檚 workforce. The coalition gives marginalized and disenfranchised individuals greater access to resources, therefore a greater chance at career success. Another program we fund, The Power of Two, focuses on helping families, often single women with children, in the early stages of parenting.

What brought you back to campus recently?

I was the keynote speaker for the Encuentro event last December cohosted by the Puerto Rican and Latin Studies Department (PRLS). When I got to 可乐视频 my freshman year and was exposed to Puerto Rican history, it was transformative. The faculty were my champions. When we learned I had won the Rhodes scholarship my senior year, PRLS celebrated first. They are like family to me. I believe we have a responsibility to give back, and I鈥檓 always happy to do so. In my Encuentro address, I spoke about my experience and research related to the theme of the Possible Dream: Latinx Arts, Communities and Leadership, Unity & Liberation. No one is free until everyone is free.

When looking out at an audience full of students at an event like Encuentro, what do you see?

I see incredible diversity. I see students who benefit from the fact that we, as a school, have been navigating across differences for many years, so everybody can be in the same class together, and work together. There is a similarity among students, wherever they are from, when it comes to their origin stories and what propelled them here. And there is a hustle culture that is universally respected. For me, Encuentro is the idea of truly understanding the new generation and dismantling some myths. We see young people, for example, discussing how they think about work, what their values are surrounding their careers, and work-life balance. We see more young people voting than ever before. For me I see engagement, and that鈥檚 something we need to harness.

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Tell us a bit about your background.

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, did all of my schooling there, and earned my degrees, including my Ph.D., at the University of Puerto Rico, R铆o Piedras. My mother was an educator. She didn’t work as an educator in schools until later in life, but she was an educator at home from the beginning. She was very religious鈥攐ur family was conservative鈥攂ut my mother was shaped by liberation theology. That has been very much a part of my life since very early on: liberation theology and a socialist perspective. We all deserve access to benefits from the effort we put in as part of a larger society. My mother and father were avid readers and encouraged me to challenge the status quo. And I’m very grateful for that background. That allowed me to grasp everything I received in my university studies.

Your field, school counseling, and the need for more counselors in schools, particularly post-pandemic, have been widely reported in the media in recent years.

The profession has moved from the concept of 鈥済uidance鈥� and addressing mostly the things that students need to excel academically, to one that addresses schools and students in a more systemic and holistic way. Today鈥檚 counselors look at a student鈥檚 sense of belonging and emotional well-being. We train our school counselors to be agents of change with the recognition that we are living in a system that is still oppressive to people from marginalized communities, in terms of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and special needs.

Regarding special needs, 可乐视频 has a new undergraduate program.

Yes, it鈥檚 a dual certification degree, a B.S. in childhood education teacher (1鈥�6) and special education (all grades). When students in the program graduate, they will be recommended for two certifications: childhood education (1-6) and special education (all grades). This is something that our faculty has been working on for a while. Special education in the United States remains an understaffed area鈥攖here are not enough qualified teachers to deliver services in the schools. Hopefully, this will make an impact in the community. Many of our teacher candidates are from Brooklyn and, after graduation, remain in Brooklyn to teach. And because our student body looks more like the New York City pre-kindergarten through grade 12 student population than current NYC DOE teachers, children, and their families will see teachers who look like them.

Inclusivity has long been a top priority at 可乐视频.

It is an area that has always been part of the conversation at the School of Education. Our school is guided by four themes: collaboration, critical self-reflection, social justice, and diversity. We have a long-standing bilingual program that resulted from student activism. When the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department was formed, there was also a need for bilingual teachers, and students demanded the creation of a bilingual education program. As a faculty member and scholar, I have been committed to advocacy at the intersections, not only in terms of race, ethnicity, and language, but also in terms of sexual orientation and gender identity. There are committed faculty and staff who strive to make 可乐视频 and the School of Education a welcoming place to underrepresented and marginalized populations, including LGBTQ+ people, and I have seen that grow since I’ve been here.

What does it mean to have a liberatory approach to education?

A liberatory approach requires us to understand where we were, where we are, and the systems we still need to dismantle. We do this as part of our training of educators, counselors, and psychologists. We look at the areas in which we experience oppression as well as the areas in which we benefit from privilege. We look at our identity and who we are, not as one-sided, but multidimensional and intersectional. That mix creates our realities. We need to be aware of how systems of privilege and oppression show up in our institutions, in our lives, and the lives of people who are marginalized. This work can be uncomfortable. Some vocal groups across this country say that this discomfort is a good reason not to engage in this type of education. These groups claim that that students who become aware of their privilege feel uncomfortable, and they should not have to feel this way.

There is a contentious debate about what should and should not be taught and why.

Discomfort is necessary for growth. Interestingly, some groups talk about this type of instruction being divisive, yet, time and time again, I saw it bring connection to my classroom. Students connected with each other, yes, and they also were able to better connect to themselves. This is what choosing connection in the classroom truly is. To fight for this freedom to teach in this way is to fight for our ability to grow and connect in ways that inspire our solidarity across differences. Part of the beauty of this transformative learning is that once you acknowledge your privilege you have the power to be a voice and to use your privilege for change. Our faculty works to make sure that our students have access to the content and resources they need to succeed as educators and as leaders in the schools. This is important. They provide the content and resources to their students so that we can end educational and academic disparities and close gaps. In addition, our faculty also supports our students to develop the skills to engage in the difficult conversations needed to dismantle the systems that fuel those same disparities. And that鈥檚 how we want to engage with our students. That鈥檚 what brings all of our programs and faculty in the School of Education together.

Do you think we, as a nation, have made progress?

We are always progressing, even if we don’t progress at the rate we would like. We had a burst of advancements in some areas regarding how we were addressing conversations around race and violence in a way that brought visibility to the violence endured by many marginalized communities. And visibility is so important. We also have advanced in relation to LGBTQ rights and affirming diversity along gender and sexual orientation. But the pendulum has swung back, and we are seeing a lot of anti-trans bills in legislatures across the United States and books being banned in schools that are mostly around issues of, again, race, sexuality, and gender identity. It is so important that those of us in positions of privilege or power be more visible for those whose safety is impacted. When you have been involved in advocacy, keeping a perspective of hope is essential. It is a romantic mandate in a sense, but it is a mandate. Whoever is committed to doing this work, one of their primary mandates needs to be that of replenishing hope.

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Author and Activist Barbara Smith Served as 可乐视频鈥檚 2022鈥�23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence

Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida (UF) and will serve as 可乐视频鈥檚 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence for 2024. He was president of the faculty union at UF and has been critical of political attacks on the humanities and higher education.

Ortiz serves as the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at UF. He is the author of several books, including An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018) and Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2005). He is co-editor of People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn鈥檚 Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century (2021) and Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2014). Ortiz also has published essays in The American Historical Review, Latino Studies, Cultural Dynamics, The Oral History Review, Kalfou, Florida Historical Quarterly, and many other journals.

In 2013, Ortiz received the C茅sar E. Ch谩vez Action and Commitment Award, from the Florida Education Association, AFL-CIO. He is past president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF (FEA-AFL-CIO), the union that represents tenured and nontenure track faculty at UF.

As part of this event, the 可乐视频 community is invited to enjoy to a selection of writings by Smith and Ortiz.

This event is sponsored by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities; the Maria E. S谩nchez Center for Latino Studies; the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI); and the Robert L. Hess Memorial Fund, in cooperation with the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Office of the Dean of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts; the departments of Africana Studies; Classics; Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders; English; History; Judaic Studies; Modern Languages and Literatures; Philosophy; Political Science; Puerto Rican and Latino Studies; and Sociology; the programs in Caribbean Studies, Urban Sustainability, Studies in Religion, and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies; the Center for the Study of Brooklyn; the Immigrant Student Success Office; the 可乐视频 Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress; the Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom; and the Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Read, Freedom to Learn Lecture Series at 可乐视频.

About the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture

In cooperation with the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. It is named for and honors the eighth president of 可乐视频.

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Smith鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淲hat I Believe,鈥� will be an intimate exploration into her life as a trailblazer who broke new ground as a Black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, publisher, and independent scholar who inspired generations. She was among the first to define an African American women鈥檚 literary tradition and to build Black women鈥檚 studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s.

鈥淚 am so honored to serve as the Hess Scholar-in-Residence during the 2022鈥�23 academic year,鈥� Smith said. 鈥淎t a time when some in our nation wish to limit the information and ideas that students can access, I look forward to expansive dialogues with members of 可乐视频鈥檚 wonderfully diverse community.鈥�

鈥淎s a writer, publisher, teacher, and organizer, Barbara Smith is a transformative force for justice. Her work has reshaped the American academy and society. We are honored to host her for a week of events culminating in the Hess Memorial Lecture,鈥� said Gaston Alonso, interim director for the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and associate professor of political science at 可乐视频.

This lecture event is free and open to the public and serves as the main highlight of the college鈥檚听听for 2022鈥�23.

The event will also feature President Michelle J. Anderson as well as听, distinguished professor of political science, and Professor of English听, interim dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

On November 29, Smith was part of a conversation on campus with Theoharis when they discussed selected clips from the documentary听, which features Smith and is based on Theoharis鈥� research and听听of the same name.

A prolific writer and publisher, Smith has edited three major collections about Black women:听Conditions: Five, The Black Women鈥檚 Issue听(with Lorraine Bethel, 1979);听All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women鈥檚 Studies听(with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell-Scott, 1982); and听Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology听(1983). She is also the co-author, with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt,听of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism听(1984). Smith is the general editor of The Reader鈥檚 Companion to U.S. Women鈥檚 History听(with Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, and Gloria Steinem, 1998). A collection of her essays,听The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1998.听Ain鈥檛 Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith, was published by SUNY Press in 2014.

The evening will also include mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford and the Conservatory Singers, 可乐视频’s select chamber ensemble, who will perform 鈥淎in’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around.鈥� The group will be conducted by Associate Professor/Director of Choral Studies听, director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus.

This signature event will be held on Thursday, March 16, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Claire Tow Theater at 可乐视频. It will also be livestreamed on the听.

Highlights From the Hess Week Calendar, March 13鈥�20

Full calendar and speakers

Barbara Smith鈥擧ess Scholar-in-Residence Library Exhibit: An exhibit located in the main entrance of the 可乐视频 Library that will highlight the works and legacy of Barbara Smith. Archival material from the Robert L. Hess Collection will also be presented. Curated by Professor and Librarian Helen Georgas.

March 13, 11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.: President Anderson Welcomes 2022鈥�23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and on听Zoom

March 13, 2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.: 鈥淚f Black women were free鈥︹��: The State of Black Feminism 2023听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and on听Zoom

March 14, 2:15鈥�3:45 p.m.: 鈥淭ransforming the U.S. Academy鈥�听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and livestreamed on the听.

March 15, 11 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.: 鈥淛ustice or Just Us?: Defining a Queer Agenda鈥�听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and livestreamed on the听.

March 15, 3:40鈥�4:55 p.m.: 鈥淭eaching as a Liberating Practice鈥�听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and livestreamed on the听.

March 16, 11 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.: 鈥淲orking for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time鈥�听Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, and livestreamed on the听.

March 20, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.: 鈥淧utting Class Back Into Intersectionality鈥�听Online via听Zoom

About the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 可乐视频, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 可乐视频. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, alive to the shared purposes and concerns linking all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the scholarly and academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 可乐视频.

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Jeanne Theoharis

On November 29, from 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with 可乐视频鈥檚 Distinguished Professor of Political Science听Jeanne Theoharis. The pair will discuss selected clips from the documentary, 鈥�,鈥� which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis鈥� research and book of the same name. Smith and Theoharis will explore Rosa Parks’ life of freedom fighting, how the many myths of Parks and the movement cloud our understandings of social change, the roles and experiences of women in the movement, and the lessons this history provides for the work of organizing and social justice today. After their conversation, there will be a Q&A period for students, staff, and faculty.

The event will be held in the library鈥檚 Woody Tanger Auditorium and will also be livestreamed on the Wolfe Institute鈥檚 YouTube channel. At the speaker鈥檚 request, masks are required for the in-person event. Room 441 in the library will also be open for guests to watch the lecture online.

You can watch the livestream of the event

To stream the documentary for free before the event, 可乐视频 students, faculty, and staff can email:听wolfeinstitute@brooklyn.cuny.edu

More Hess Scholar-in-Residence lectures will be held in March 2023, and a complete schedule of events will be made available soon.

About the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 可乐视频, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 可乐视频. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, alive to the shared purposes and concerns linking all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the scholarly and academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 可乐视频.

Sponsors

Africana Studies Department; American Studies Program; Anthropology Department; Caribbean Studies Program; Classics Department; the Shirley Chisholm Project; Communications Arts, Sciences, and Disorders Department; English Department; Film Department; History Department; the Honors Academy; Judaic Studies Department; the LGBTQ Resource Center; Modern Languages and Literatures Department; Philosophy Department; Political Science Department; Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department; Sociology Department; Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program; and the Women鈥檚 Center at 可乐视频.

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鈥淲e are delighted that 17 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies projects, developed by our faculty, staff, and administrators, have received BRESI program support,鈥� said Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Anne Lopes. 鈥淭hese projects range in scope from curriculum development and faculty research to initiatives focused on campus climate. These efforts will impact student learning and faculty scholarship for many years to come.鈥�

可乐视频 Awardees

Faculty Support for Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Publications

• Rosamond King, Proposal Title: Black Light: Digital Literature from Africa and Its Diaspora
• Malcolm Merriweather, Proposal Title: Hear Black Women鈥檚 Voices: 鈥淚, Too, Sing America.鈥�
• Aleah Ranjitsingh, Proposal Title: Becoming Black: Afro-Caribbean and/in 鈥楤lack America.鈥� An Oral History Project.
• Gunja SenGupta, Proposal Title: Indexing book, Sojourners, Sultans and 鈥淪laves鈥�: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire (forthcoming, University of California Press, 2023)

Departments, Programs and Black, Race and Ethnic Studies-Related Initiatives

• Mona Hadler, Proposal Title: The ALQKAA Symposium: A Cross-Ethno-Gender Korean/Asian Studies Initiative.

Existing Race and CUNY Black, Ethnic Studies Centers and Institutes

• Alan Aja, Proposal Title: Research Assistance/Programming Support for the Maria E. S谩nchez Center for Latino Studies at 可乐视频 (CUNY).
• Marie Cerat, Proposal Title: Ayiti in the City.
• Prudence Cumberbatch, Proposal Title: Institutionalizing Activism at CUNY: The Emergence of Africana Studies at 可乐视频, A Case Study.
• Zinga A. Fraser, Proposal Title: Redefining the Shirley Chisholm Trail in 2022 and Beyond.

Black, Race and Ethnic Studies-focused Projects to Improve Campus Climate

• Yung-Yi Diana Pan, Proposal Title: Another Curriculum is Possible: Decolonization, Multi-Generational Voices, and the Creation of Cross-Campus Native/Indigenous (N/I) Studies Initiatives at CUNY.
• Naomi Schiller, Proposal Title: Claiming Our Campus: A Participatory Action Research Project on Student Experiences and Analysis of 可乐视频鈥檚 Campus Climate.
• Crystal Schloss-Allen, Proposal Title: BFS Ambassador Program.

Creating Black, Race and Ethnic Studies-Focused Student Internships

• Emily Molina, Proposal Title: Flatbush African Burial Ground Student Internship Program.

Black, Race and Ethnic Studies-Focused Mentored Student Research

• Lawrence Johnson, Proposal Title: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Decolonizing Sociology.
• Sophia Suarez, Proposal Title: Promoting URM Participation and Development in STEM Research of Electrospun Nanofibers.
• Alex Vitale, Proposal Title: Policing and Social Justice Project.

Course and Curriculum Design and Curriculum and Syllabus Decolonization

• April Bedford, Proposal Title: Creating Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Teacher Preparation Programs.

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Through its diverse and interconnected award-winning departments, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) and its students are well-equipped to become leaders and influencers in an ever-changing and interdependent world.

Now, the important research these students are doing in the educational laboratory that is HSS will be showcased in the Second Annual 可乐视频 HSS Expo scheduled for two full days on April 25 and 26. The Expo will bring together all of 可乐视频鈥檚 longstanding HSS end-of-year student events in a single forum.

HSS Dean Ken Gould first conceived of the Expo for Spring 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the campus, the first annual event was held online. The Expo is returning in a hybrid form in 2022 to give the public a chance to see again the high level of intellectual output of 可乐视频 students while providing them the opportunity to test out new ways to display their scholarly work and research.

For Gould, highlighting and supporting the humanities has never been more important.

鈥淗SS is the core of our liberal arts education and the center for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and teaching rooted in strong disciplines,鈥� Gould says. 鈥淭his two-day event will help us continue to build our academic community, both on and off-campus, and let our brilliant students shine and get acclimated to presenting and engaging with the public.鈥�

The HSS offerings at 可乐视频 are extremely robust and include departments focused on Africana Studies, Classics, Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders, English, History, Judaic Studies, , Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Political Science, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and Sociology.

One of the Expo highlights includes several HSS students from 可乐视频鈥檚 Department of History and other disciplines presenting their research on April 25 at 7 p.m. This event will be live-streamed and available to view at .

In all, the two-day Expo will showcase approximately 50 students. Some of the presentations include:

• A student panel discussion on the history and current state of activism, including the Occupy Movement and Covid-19. Undertaking research into the events that shaped the 可乐视频 experience, student panelists will interview alumni about what drew them to activism on campus, if and how 可乐视频 transformed their lives, and what lessons current students might draw from their experiences. (April 25, 2:15 鈥� 3:30 p.m.)
• Research from the ongoing Asian American Pacific Islander Project. Students will present a documentary they created and a partial clip of an interview from a current podcasting project. (April 25, 2:15 鈥� 3:30 p.m.)
• History and Religion majors鈥攁ll upper-level seminar students鈥攚ill talk through theoretical and historical issues on the question of religious experience. Do religious objects have agency or are their worth and meaning inscribed by the users of these objects? Does religious experience “really” happen, or is it simply a product of psychological issues? Those and many other questions will be explored. (April 26, 10 鈥� 10:45 a.m.).

可乐视频鈥檚 offerings in the humanities and liberal arts are recognized nationwide. Last year, the college was ranked as the top public liberal arts college in New York City and among the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the nation, according to . The college was one of only two New York State colleges or universities that made the site鈥檚 list of renowned liberal arts institutions.

The rankings highlight that businesses everywhere are beginning to acknowledge that the desirable employee today masters writing, psychology, logic, math, graphic design, economics, computer programming, and more.

The HSS Expo has enjoyed extraordinary support from a $50,000 grant from the , which will award 10 students $1,000 awards at a post-event research contest.

More information and to register for the events.

More information about last year鈥檚 HSS Expo.

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