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2008 Activities for Susan Talburt
Susan Talburt delivered an invited paper, “Toys, Pleasures, and the Future,” at the Education and the Body Seminar, Exeter, England, September 2008. Susan Talburt and co-author Claudia Matus (Florida International University) presented a paper, “Confusing the Grid: Queering Spatial Imaginaries,” at the Queer in Europe Research Symposium, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, September 2008.
2008 Activities for Layli Phillips
Layli Phillips co-organized and co-presented (with Prof. Laurie Patton, Dept. of Religion, Emory University) a 10-week community education series entitled “Religions and Economic Justice for Women: Womanist, Feminist, Sacred, and Secular Perspectives,” presented October 16-November 13, 2007, and February 12-March 11, 2008, at Hands On Atlanta.
This series, open to the public, was sponsored by the Atlanta Women’s Foundation as part of its Faith, Feminism, and Philanthropy initiative. This series became the basis for a new weekly Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters television program called Faith and Feminism, co-hosted by Layli Phillips and Laurie Patton and created by Emmy-award winning producer by Angela Harrington Rice.
2008 Activities for Charlene Ball
“Age-ism and Able-ism: Intersections: A Community Dialogue about Ageism and Ableism.” Presentation and dialogue at Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Ga, October 15, 2008.
2008 Activities for Amira Jarmakani
Award: National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize for Imagining Arab Womanhood (2008)Book: Jarmakani, Amira. Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Grant: Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University, 2008-09, $9900: “’To Catch a Sheik’ in the War on Terror: Reading Sheikh-Themed Romance Novels.”
2008 Activities for Megan Sinnott
Megan Sinnott received a Research Initiation Grant from Georgia State University, College of Arts and Sciences, for summer research in Thailand entitled “Thai Ghost Narratives: Historical Contingency and Global Contexts.” She has also received a grant from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok for collaborative research with Dr. Chutima Pragatwutisarn for a related research project entitled, “Health, Culture, and Spirituality: A Study of Illness Narratives and Ghost Stories.”
2008 Student Awards:
Outstanding Women’s Studies Undergraduate Student Award – Fallon Proctor
Outstanding Undergraduate Women’s Studies Essay Award – Alex Venegas-Steele
Outstanding Women’s Studies Graduate Student Award – Chanel R. Craft
Ethel W. Draper Research Fellowship – Katie E. Still