Amidst the abundance of food and the festive atmosphere, questions arise about the true cost of these extravagant spreads. Is the Ramadan buffet a celebration of the season's spirit, or has it become a symbol of excess and waste?
Ayshia
Carmen Hernandez Ojeda, with
Bryant Keith Alexander, received the 2020 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Awards for their coauthored article “‘I’m Sorry My Hair is Blocking Your Smile:’ A Performative Assemblage and Intercultural Dialogue on the Politics of Hair and Place.” The Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award is sponsored by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Affiliate of the NCA. In addition, many other faculty and grad students presented sessions at the conference, including emeritus faculty and Ph.D. program graduates who participated. Those include:
Victoria Alcazar: “This Much of the Flour and This Much of the Spice:” Women’s Storytelling as Creating Embodied Archives of Resistance in the Space of the Kitchen