Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Ynestra King: (above) Independent Scholar, Five College Womens Studies Research Center.
Joanne Sheehan: (below) Resistance Studies Fellow at The Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst, Activist with War Resisters League and Voluntown Peace Trust. Read more
Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Dr. Mahmoud Soliman activist-scholar and Resistance Studies Initiative and Sociology Departmental affiliate at UMass Amherst. He is the Co-founder of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee.Read more
Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Dr. Z. Fareen Parvez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Scholar with the UMass Resistance Studies Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a 2019-20 member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.She is the author of Politicizing Islam: the Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is currently researching the political economy of debt in marginalized Muslim and Dalit communities in India.Read more
Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Carol Kalafatic (Quechua, Spanish & Croatian) is a Resistance Studies Fellow with tthe Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst and has been working alongside Indigenous Peoples (IPs) since 1991, as an organizer, workshop provider, trans-disciplinary scholar, and policy advocate for IPs’ self-determination and food sovereignty.
Chief Gary Harrison (Ahtna), Traditional Chief of Chickaloon Village, Alaska, and Tribal Chairman of Chickaloon Village Traditional Council was named Traditional Chief in 1994.Read more
