This two-day in-person workshop is a partnership with the Black Feminist Eco Lab at the University of Utah, the Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University, and the Black Women and Girls Symposium. The partnership brings together 11 Caribbean feminist scholars conducting research and teaching at U.S academic institutions, providing an opportunity […]
Read MoreThe vibrancy of intersectionality as a body of thought has resided in the ways its pathways are rooted in local contexts, lived experiences, and felt needs. Thus, our third year focused on fostering ecologies of place by highlighting the density of intersectional thoroughfares already being built by community organizations in collaboration with faculty in Transform, […]
Read MoreThe Celebrate Community Mural is the fruit of the Black Feminist Eco Lab, a collective of scholars, change agents, artists, learners, and practitioners who have come together to build a new paradigm of what a thriving, inclusive ecosystem operating on the evolving theoretical frameworks embodied by Black feminism. The Lab centers an ethics of care […]
Read MoreThe Black Feminist Eco Lab is a collective of University of Utah faculty, staff and graduate students focused on ecological integrity using a Black feminist lens to work toward ways in which all living beings (particularly those most susceptible to oppression and death in these times of pandemics and environmental destruction) can exist in relationships […]
Read MoreThe TRIC grant supported seven intersectional signature initiatives that exemplified intersectional research conducted by multi-scholar groups. These teams demonstrated commitment to intersectional inquiry and potential benefit to local and regional communities. Awardees organized at least one “idea exchange” meeting that incorporated scholars from the University of Utah alongside local, regional, and national partners.
Read MoreIn year two, our the TRIC focus shifted to support intersectional research, while providing an overlapping teaching focus through workshops. Our 2023 fellows came from across the University of Utah campus to support a broad range of scholarship, creating a cohort of fellows that represented those who had a track-record of intersectional scholarship or creative […]
Read MoreWhat does it mean to do genuinely intersectional research on disability, race, Indigeneity and ethnicity? Five scholars – Dr. Maile Arvin, Dr. Anna LaQuawn Hinton, Dr. Jina B. Kim, Dr. Julie Minich, and Dr. Lezlie Frye – explain their current projects and discuss their intersectional topics and methods in this panel discussion.–This event was hosted […]
Read MoreWe launched our collective plans by creating an in-state cohort of Intersectional Pedagogy Fellows. With Mellon funds, and in special partnership with Utah State University’s Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research, we gathered 14 scholar-teachers who together represent Utah State University, Weber State University, Salt Lake Community College, and the University of Utah. Our […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation (Transform) has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support growth and outreach in its Pacific Islands (PI) Studies program. It was a three-year, $600,000 Mellon Foundation grant which allowed Transform to greatly accelerate its PI Studies initiative in 2018. This additional funding will expand current programming to […]
Read MoreDr. Nirmala Erevelles is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education, and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable, and taboo body—a habitual outcast in […]
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