SOC FMA alumna Lois Lipman’s documentary “First They Bombed New Mexico” about the downwind Indigenous and Hispanic communities affected by the atom bomb testing won Best Documentary at the Austin Film Festival! The film premiered last month at the Santa Fe Film Festival and had four sold out screenings there.
Aram Sinnreich spoke to the Christian Science Monitor about how the war in Israel and Gaza is affecting academic culture.
Sherri Williams participated at the 43rd National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference in Baltimore. Williams presented on the panels “Critical Pedagogies in Practice: Lessons from the Classroom” and “Academic Publishing in Women's Studies Journals.” She also presented her paper “The Lizzo's Liberatory and Complex Energy.”
Whitney Harris Christopher co-authored a book chapter titled Transitioning: Examining Black Women’s Hair Stories in Entering Higher Education. The chapter investigates the “turning point” or transition of Black female college students as it relates to their choices of how to wear their hair. It was published in a book titled Women of Color and Hair Bias in the Work Environment.
Caty Borum was a featured guest on Climate One, a leading climate change podcast distributed all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and broadcast to NPR stations across the country. The Oct. 27 episode, which features Caty's book (The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power) is titled: Is This a Joke? Comedy and Climate Communication.
The Center for Media & Social Impact premiered its first show as a Kennedy Center community partner, a comedy show called Comedy Saves Democracy, emceed by Negin Farsad (regular host of NPR's Wait Wait). The show was livestreamed and performed to a standing-room-only audience at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on October 21. Read the AU story here: https://www.american.edu/news/democracy-is-a-laughing-matter.cfm
SOC grad Trey Yingst (2016) was praised in a writeup Wednesday at the Baltimore Post-Examiner as his generation's "top war correspondent." Trey is based in Jerusalem for Fox News and has been reporting tirelessly on the Israel-Hamas war. The writeup, by a Towson University professor, said Trey "is as spontaneously articulate as any correspondent I have ever seen or heard." The author also wrote: "I wish he had been my student. He’s the best."
In February, Trey spoke to Joe Campbell's "Foreign Policy and the Press" class remotely from Kyiv, where he was covering the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
SOC faculty and staff may remember that Trey was the School's undergraduate commencement speaker in May 2016.
