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Record four PhD candidates win dissertation fellowship
May 13, 2021
The Office of Fellowships is thrilled to announce a record-breaking number of Northwestern recipients among this year’s class of Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship winners! With funding from the award, Ashley Dennis, Hayana Kim, Andrea Rosengarten, and Azadeh Safaeian will finish their PhD studies next year.
Inspired by her commitment to educational equity and the dearth of Black history curriculum in the
predominantly Black and brown schools she attended, Ashley’s research in the Department of African American Studies considers how and why Black women educators promoted Black history and culture to children during the mid-twentieth century. Her dissertation examines teachers, librarians, and authors who challenged stereotypes in texts for children and supplemented or replaced them with antiracist writings of their own. Their writings in
Who is afraid of Iran’s Faezeh Hashemi? IranSource by Arash Azizi
Faezeh Rafsanjani (C), daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, attends an opposition rally in Tehran in this June 16, 2009 photograph made available June 21, 2009. Faezeh, the daughter of Rafsanjani, who is a rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was detained during an opposition rally in Tehran on Saturday, an Iranian news agency said on Sunday. Faezeh addressed supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi on June 16 when they gathered near the state television building in Tehran in defiance of a ban on opposition protests. REUTERS via Your View
On March 31, when Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made an impromptu appearance on Clubhouse, many were impressed by how quickly the room filled with eight thousand listeners (the maximum allowed on the audio-only app
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Non-resident Scholar
Farnaz Seifi is an independent essayist and consultant who has worked at the juncture of gender and media with several international organizations and stakeholders in Iran, Europe, and the United States. She was a journalist and staff writer for Germany s public international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle for seven years. Her areas of interest include international women’s movement and community initiatives, gender politics in the Middle East, modern comparative literature, and local media performances. She holds two B.A. degrees in Sociology and English and M.A. in Journalism and Media Studies. Farnaz has a proud background in feminist grassroots movement and was a founding member of Iran’s renowned Change for Equality Campaign (2006 – 2008).
Hoda Afshar documents Australian government whistleblowers in new photography and film project
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In Agonistes, Hoda Afshar asks us to judge our democracy by the way it treats its whistleblowers.
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A young woman who witnessed the inhumane treatment of refugees in offshore detention; an officer who saw the corruption of the Australian Defence Force firsthand; a disability care worker who uncovered a system of physical abuse of children and adults with autism.
These are just three of the Australian whistleblowers whose portraits are hanging outside Melbourne s St Paul s Cathedral.