Faculty
Awards and Honors
Rosario Ceballo received the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, which honors faculty whose service goes above and beyond their regular duties and contributes to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community.
Lilia Cortina was recognized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for her work on their nationwide efforts to combat sexual harassment in higher education.
Victor Mendoza received the 2020 John H. D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities, which recognizes tenured faculty who are outstanding mentors of doctoral students in the humanities, who support their intellectual, creative, scholarly, and professional growth, and foster a culture of intellectual engagement in which they thrive.
Gayle Rubin received the Association for Queer Anthropology’s Distinguished Achievement Award, which honors outstanding contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer anthropology through scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, service, public engagement, and/or activism.
Isis Settles received the Academic Women’s Caucus’s 2021 Sarah Goddard Power Award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the betterment of women through their leadership, scholarship or other ways in their professional life.
Megan Sweeney received the 2021 John H. D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities, which recognizes tenured faculty who are outstanding mentors of doctoral students in the humanities, who support their intellectual, creative, scholarly, and professional growth, and foster a culture of intellectual engagement in which they thrive.
Publications
Naomi André won the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement.
Allison Alexy’s book, Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan, was published by the University of Chicago Press. Misuzu Press (Tokyo) published a Japanese translation of the book.
Debotri Dhar edited an essay collection, Love is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire, published by Speaking Tiger Books. The book has been reviewed by several major Indian publications, including the Tribune, the New Indian Express and Firstpost.
Abigail Dumes’ book, Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine, was published by Duke University Press.
Nadine Hubbs guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, titled “Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies.”
Anna Kirkland co-edited the Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Graduate Students
Awards, Honors, Grants, Fellowships, etc.
Jasmine An received the English Department’s Heberle Prize, which recognizes a critical essay originally completed for a graduate course in the department.
Grace Argo received the Race, Law, History Fellowship; Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Fellowship; and an IRWG Summer Community of Scholars Fellowship.
Alex Burnett received Honorable Mention for the Joan Nestle Prize from the Committee on LGBT History, Organization of American Historians. The award recognized Burnett’s undergraduate honors thesis, "Fighting Homophobia During The War on Crime: The Rise of Pro-Gay, Pro-Police Liberalism in Los Angeles, 1967-80." )
Camille Brown received a Diversity Allies Spring/Summer Grant.
Allura Casanova received the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women Riecker Graduate Research Grant.
Sarah Chadwick received the Research Trainee Award from Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, which will fund a postdoctoral position at the University of Victoria.
Catherine Fairfield received the Dorothy McGuigan Prize from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, which recognizes excellent papers on women, gender, and sexuality.
Thao Nguyen received a 2020 Prism Foundation Scholarship, 2021 Gupta Values and APIQWTC Scholarship.
Leanna Papp received the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women Riecker Graduate Research Grant; University of Michigan Department of Psychology Pillsbury Graduate Research Grant; and a University of Michigan Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence Research Grant.
LaVelle Ridley received the Sweetland/Rackham Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship for Spring 2021.
Sunhay You received the Dorothy McGuigan Prize from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, which recognizes excellent papers on women, gender, and sexuality.
Publications
Jasmine An: Monkey Was Here, Porkbelly Press, 2020 (poetry chapbook)
Catherine Brist: "Review: Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book." Published in Life Writing, 11 Feb. 2021.
Allura Casanova: Watkins, D. C., Goodwill, J. R., Johnson, N. C., Casanova, A., Wei, T., Allen, J. O., Williams, E. G., Anyiwo, N., Jackson, Z., Talley, L. M., & Abelson, J. M. (2020). An online behavioral health intervention promoting mental health, manhood, and social support for Black men: The YBMen project. American Journal of Men’s Health.
Casanova, A. & Watkins, D. (Under Review). Positive Forms of Social Support for Young Black Men. Forgotten Realities of Men. Book Chapter.
Eimeel Castillo: “The Virus that Kills Twice: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence under Governmental Impunity in Nicaragua,” in Being Human During Covid (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021, forthcoming)
Emily Coccia: "Producing Intimacy: Queer Attachments in Workingwomen's Writings," in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Catherine Fairfield: "The Roots of a Clear-Cut: Tracing Feminist Orientation and Environmental Legibility in Twentieth Century Women’s Life Writing" in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Thao Nguyen: “TRANSitioning Out of the Army” in TransNarratives: Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience (in press, August 2021)
Leanna Papp: Papp, L. J., & McClelland, S. I. (2020). Too common to count? “Mild” sexual assault and aggression among U.S. college women. Journal of Sex Research. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1778620
Jennifer Piemonte: Metzl, J. M., McKay, T., & Piemonte, J. L. (2021). Structural competency and the future of firearm research. Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113879.
Metzl, J. M., Piemonte, J. L., & McKay, T. (2021). Mental illness, mass shootings, and the future of psychiatric research into American gun violence. Harvard Review of Psychiatry [Special Issue – Violence and Psychiatric Illness], 29, 81-89. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000280.
Piemonte, J. L. & Metzl, J. M. (2020). Gun violence and mental health: Myths and strategies for sociolegal research. In M. Jacob & A. Kirkland (Eds.), Research Handbook for Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine & Health (pp. 403-417). Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786437983.00035.
Conley, T. D. & Piemonte, J. L. (2020). Monogamy as public policy for STD prevention: In theory and in practice. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Special Issue – Social Psychology and Social Issues], 7, 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732220943228.
Piemonte, J. L., Gusakova, S., Nichols, M., & Conley, T. D. (2020). Is consent sexy? Comparing evaluations of erotica based on verbal sexual consent. Psychology & Sexuality [Special Issue – Sexual Consent]. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2020.1769161.
Conference Presentations
Jasmine An: Association for Asian American Studies - "Paper-work Poetics: Literary Responses to Empire from the Southeast Asian Diaspora"
American Comparative Literature Association - participant in the "Queer Pragmatics" seminar
Modern Language Association - "“a handful of syllables tossed back across the water:” Thai American, trans of color poetics"
Midwest Media Aesthetics Workshop - "Paper-work Poetics"
Grace Argo: "Rethinking the Incest Taboo," Creating Connections Consortium (C3) Summit, Williams College, April 9, 2021.
Eimeel Castillo: Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy, Universität Heidelberg, virtual, "Imperial Encounters: Gender Politics in U.S. Occupied Nicaragua (1912-1933)”
Sarah Chadwick: "Troubling Orgasm: New Ways Into Sexual Pleasure" plenary symposium, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, virtual meeting (November, 2020)
Emily Coccia: American Comparative Literature Association 2021 Conference, remote (originally Chicago), "Desiring Like a Beast: '[H]appy beasts' and 'wretched, wretched man'"
Thao Nguyen: Association for Asian American Studies 2021, virtual, panel Methodological Explorations of Exploitation and Violence Beyond Asian America, presented "Anti-Hmoob Violence Report"
Leanna Papp: Papp, L. J., Porter, K. B., Armstrong, E. A., & Levitsky, S. (2020, October). The conceptual morass of sexual misconduct terminology in higher education. Poster presented at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment Virtual Summit.
LaVelle Ridley: co-organized roundtable, "Paradise on the Margins: Lessons and Dreams from Trans Women of Color: Editor's Dialogue" for the Queertopia 2021 Graduate Conference at Northwestern University
Sunhay You: Modern Languages Association (online), Asian American Literature and Empire/Imperialism Panel, "Subimperial Desires and Longings in Han Kang's Vegetarian"
