Taft Faculty Write
10 AM - 2 PM, December 13-17
A virtual workshop providing faculty a space for writing, daily goals, and accountability check-ins.
When Was Nationalism? A Reflection on the Chronology of a Destructive Ideology
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbuilt University
Feb. 17 (time TBD)
Location TBD
Dissertation Fellows
March 22-25
- The Antipoetry Work of Carlos Martínez Rivas: Parody, Humor, Pessimism and The Neo-baroque Program
Tomás Emilio Arce, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
- You Can’t Talk About That in the #CancelCulture: Social Media’s Disparate Impacts on Racial Discourse and Ideology
Marcus A. Brooks, Sociology
- Treatable Conditions: Boundaries for a Mental Health Ontology
Andrew Evans, Philosophy
- Powerful Emergence
Bradley A. Griggs, Philosophy
- Bayesian regression with piecewise linear spline
Rui Huang, Mathematical Sciences
- Archives of Empathy: A Creative and Critical Examination of Migration, Diaspora, and Identity
Yalie Saweda Kamara, English
- Statistical Downscaling of Climate Model Projections
Ayesha Kumari Ekanayaka Katugoda, Mathematical Sciences
- The Philosopher’s Path to San José: Toward a Cross-Cultural Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
Jonathan McKinney, Philosophy
- An Unconquerable Idea: The Southern Press and Confederate Nationalism
Kevin McPartland, History
- The Migration of Women from Nepal for Domestic Work to the Gulf States and the Impact of Nepal Government’s Policies Banning Out-Migration for Domestic Work
Sayam Moktan, Political Science
- Willful Objects and Feminist Writing Practices
Rhiannon Scharnhorst, English & Comparative Literature
- My Apartment: Posthumanism, Ecology, and Poetry
Madeleine Wattenberg, English & Comparative Literature
Annual Research Symposium
1-5 PM, Mar. 30
- The Red-Faced Demon of Khurasan: Conquest and Rebellion on an Early Islamic Frontier
Robert Haug, Department of History
- Remembering Non-Humans in American Space Exploration: Memory at the Intersection of Patriotism, Science, and the Environment
John Lynch, Department of Communication
- Resistance and Rollback: The Politics of Women’s Rights Contestation at the United Nations
Rebecca Sanders, Department of Political Science
- On the Spectrum: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Austria and the Politics of Disability in Britain and America
Katherine Sorrels, Department of History
- Undoing Paul: Imagining Apostolic Insecurity in the Neoliberal Age
Jay Twomey, Department of English & Comparative Literature
Annual Research Symposium Keynote
4 PM, Mar. 31
Natalie Diaz, Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University
Mainstreet Cinema (TUC 220)