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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Ruth Glenn Award, our DES Graduate Research Fellowships, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• LeAnna Luney received the Ruth Glenn Award to support her dissertation research exploring the intersections of power and how they impact forgotten people's realities, in tandem with Ruth M. Glenn鈥檚 mission to bring attention to domestic violence and how networks of power exacerbate such violence at various intersections. 
• Shawn O鈥橬eal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support his dissertation project, Audio Intersectionality: Disrupting Hegemonic Structures Against Marginalized Communities.
• LeAnna Luney received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation study, How African American College Students Cope at the 黑料社区网.
• Natasha Myhal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation research, Returning to Our Stories: Healing from the Land Within Ottawa Natural Resource Management.
• LeAnna Luney received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: 鈥淭he Decoloniality in Black Psychology: Discovering Implications of Decolonial Options in Black or African American Psychology Discourse.鈥�
• Jenean McGee received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, 鈥淭he Unscripted Script of Black YouTube (BYT): African American Women Family Vloggers Performance of Whiteness Through Property.鈥�
• Lau Malaver also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for their paper, 鈥淧erforming a Commons of Pain Through Recovecos: Excess, Silence, Endurance, and Coloniality.鈥� 
   

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System
• Deanne Grant received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support the completion of her dissertation over the summer, titled, Indigenous Women at the Heart: Decolonial Feminisms to Imagine Sexual Realities.
• Lau Malaver received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: "A Critical Theory of Decolonization Through Recovecos: From the Perspective of the Colonized, Towards the Liberation of All"
• Alejandra Portillos received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, "Breaking the ICE: Understanding Latinx Experiences with Immigration Detention and Deportation."
• Shawn O鈥橬eal also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for his paper, "Eunice Kathleen Waymon: Content Analysis of Nina Simone and the Essential Positioning of Critical Africana Womanism Theory." 

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Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019!

For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogot谩, will research, analyze, and experience various forms of cultural productions by and for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) community in Bogot谩, Colombia. Lau is interested in investigating through collaborative ways the spaces of performance (art, theater, music, film) in which LGBTQI people have found refuge, support, and ultimately other people in the community to continue the fight for social justice. There has been an underlying connection between the Acuerdo de Paz (Peace Treaty) in Colombia and these performative spaces, which Lau finds important in their research as they look at the intimacies and affinities of LGBTQI people who deploy performatic enactments (or performance theory). Lau feels there is a strong connection between the LGBTQI victims of violence and the armed conflict in Colombia; multiple LGBTI people were assassinated by the paramilitary, and hence the restorative work the Acuerdo de Paz is hoping to implement. Ultimately, it is a problem that hundreds of LGBTQI people are victims of violence due to their sexual orientation and gender identity ever year, but the extreme right-wing political climate currently in power presents a further problematic: the institutionalization of gender and sexuality as means through which violence gets legitimized. Lau hopes to examine this to reify the relationality of subject with space, time, culture, and nation, and purposefully highlight cultural projects and productions that imagine decolonial futurities鈥攕paces of liberation鈥攚ithin politically contested geographies in Latin America (and the United States).

Jose is planning to travel to Oaxaca, Mexico. Specifically, to the Valley of Oaxaca. Jose's intention is to visit indigenous communities of artisans of the Zapotec ethnic group. Jose is interested in knowing the process of production-commercialization of crafts made by this ethnic group. He plans to visit 5 artisan communities: San Mart铆n Tilcajete (wood alebrijes pictured below), Teotitl谩n del Valle (hand-woven yarn rugs), Santo Tom谩s Jalietza (cotton textiles), San Bartolo Coyotepec (pottery) y Miahuatl谩n de Porfirio D铆az (miniature sculptures of wood and bone) where he will interview 15 different master artisans. The elaboration of artisan handicrafts forms a great part of the cultural richness that the ethnic communities impact on the larger cultural heritage seen in Oaxaca. 

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