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Demetria Shabazz, Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Bernadine Mellis, and Mari Castañeda receive $10,000 grant

Demetria Shabazz, Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Bernadine Mellis (Five College Faculty Member), and Mari Castañeda received a $10,000 digital humanities grant from the Five College Women Studies Research Center to develop a Feminist Media Justice Colloquium

PhD Candidate Eve Ng Receives New Media Grant
Tovar Cerulli (MA 2011, Doctoral Candidate) Publishes The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance (Pegasus/W.W. Norton)

As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing for trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. A decade later, in the face of declining health, he returned to omnivory and within a few years found himself heading into the woods, rifle in hand.

Changwook Kim Receives Fellowship from the Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation

Doctoral candidate Changwook (Ricky) Kim has been awarded a $45,000 visiting research fellowship from the Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation to conduct dissertation research at the University of Tokyo in 2012-13. Changwook’s comparative, multi-sited project will map how creative city policy emerged as a new form of urban politics in Korea and Japan. At UMass, his work is supervised by Professor Paula Chakravartty; in Tokyo, he will be hosted by Professor Tanaka Hideyuki.

Community Service Learning Faculty Members

Departmental faculty members Martha Fuentes-Bautista and Allison Butler have been selected as members of this year's Community Service Learning Faculty Fellows.

Mari Castañeda and Martha Fuentes-Bautista receive $10,000 grant

Martha Fuentes-Bautista and Mari Castañeda received a $10,000 grant through the Five College Public Policy Initiative to develop a Media Justice Network (MJnet) in Western Mass and bring Pete Tridish to the Five Colleges as a Social Justice Practitioner-in-Residence.

For more information on the program, please visit http://www.masspolicy.org/FCPPI/residency.html

New Hire in Political Communication

We are delighted to report a new colleague will be joining us as Honors Assistant Professor of Communication in Fall 2013. Dr. Seth Goldman, currently the George Gerbner Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, will be arriving this fall.

Professor Emily West named an Institute for Social Science Research Scholar

Prof. Emily West has been named an Institute for Social Science Research Scholar for the 2013-2014 academic year. She was competitively selected to participate in a series of seminars and workshops on grant writing and submission. Her year as ISSR Scholar will facilitate the submission of her ongoing work on US health care policy and consumer subjectivity for consideration for external funding.

For more information, please visit here.