https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi PFP Faculty: Please fill this out for the Fellows en-us 2020-09-03 18:55:24 UTC 2025-09-19 11:48:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729063558 Dr. Atshan is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College, where he is also Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. As an anthropologist and peace and conflict studies scholar, Atshan's research is focused on a) contemporary Palestinian society and politics, b) global LGBTQ social movements, and c) Quaker Studies and Christian minorities in the Middle East. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729063558 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729068263 Dr. Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature, lives, and archives of Black women. A former Associate Dean and Professor of English at Grinnell College, she led curricular initiatives centered on teaching and learning and oversaw programs fostering diversity and achievement through undergraduate research. With over fifteen years of experience in higher education, Dr. Benjamin is a sought-after coach and mentor of dissertators and faculty of color. For the past seven years, she has facilitated the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Dissertation Writing Retreat and now facilitates Regional Writing Retreats throughout the academic year. She has published on African American literature and Black women's intellectual history in MELUS, African American Review, a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, Studies in American Fiction, and PMLA. Dr. Benjamin’s biography of Nellie Y. McKay is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She lives with her family in Charlotte, North Carolina. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729068263 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729073070 2020-09-08 20:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729073070 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729076709 Dr. Heath Fogg Davis’ most recent book, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (New York University Press 2017) questions our need for gender policies, and offers practical strategies to help organizations of all kinds design and implement policies that are both trans-inclusive and institutionally smart. Newsweek named Beyond Trans a must-read book. His commentary on transgender and gender non-conforming political and legal issues has appeared in CNN.com, Aeon magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Feminist Wire and on MSNBC, National Public Radio, C-SPAN Book TV, Imagine Otherwise, Sex Out Loud, and other podcasts. He consults with businesses, schools, and organizations, and has served as an appointed member of the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs in Philadelphia, and a member of the Leeway Foundation’s board of directors. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729076709 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729080773 2020-09-08 20:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729080773 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729084056 2020-09-08 20:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729084056 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729087790 As a quantitatively trained sociologist and demographer, Dr. Griffith advises students on research projects with interests in quantitative methods, and teaches courses on global health, demographic changes in the continent of Africa, survey research methods and racial and ethnic relations around the globe. She received her B.A. in Sociology with summa cum laude honors from Paine College. She received a M.A. in Demography and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Dr. Griffith has published on race relations and residential segregation patterns in South Africa and Somali immigrants and health perceptions in Columbus, Ohio. Her work appears in the Southern African Journal of Demography, Glocalism, and Health, Culture, and Society. Dr. Griffith has also received several grants to investigate racial residential segregation and chronic health outcomes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and health perceptions of Somali immigrants in Columbus, OH. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729087790 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729090097 Dr. Ryan Cecil Jobson is a social scientist trained in sociocultural anthropology and African American Studies. His research and teaching engage issues of energy and extractive resource development, technology and infrastructure, states and sovereignty, and histories of racial capitalism in the colonial and postcolonial Americas. Broadly, his research examines the relationship between modern energy regimes (i.e. plantation slavery, carbon-based fuels) and the modern political ideal of sovereignty. Jobson is a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, Center for Latin American Studies, and Committee on International Relations. He is Associate Editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729090097 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729093928 2020-09-08 20:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729093928 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729096404 McKinley E. Melton entered MMUF at Duke University in 2002, going on to earn his Ph.D. from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012. Dr. Melton then joined the English Department at Gettysburg College, where he earned tenure in 2017. His teaching focuses primarily on 20th Century African American and African diasporan literature, and his courses are designed to engage the intersections of social, political, and cultural movements as part of a critical approach to Africana literatures. Dr. Melton’s research—including his current book project, Claiming All the World as Our Stage: Contemporary Black Poetry, Performance, and Resistance—focuses primarily on the relationship between the rituals and traditions of Africana cultures and diasporan creative expression. Dr. Melton’s active scholarly agenda includes published essays on the work and writing of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Danez Smith, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729096404 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729100453 2020-09-08 20:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729100453 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729102458 Professor Ranco, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation, received his Ph.D in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2000 and has been a faculty member at the University of California-Berkeley, Dartmouth College, and now at the University of Maine.  At the University of Maine, Professor Ranco has a joint appointment in the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. His research focuses on the ways in which indigenous communities in the United States resist environmental destruction by using indigenous diplomacies and critiques of liberalism to protect cultural resources, and how state knowledge systems, rooted in colonial contexts, continue to expose indigenous peoples to an inordinate amount of environmental risk. Professor Ranco teaches classes on indigenous intellectual property rights, research ethics, environmental justice and tribal governance. As an indigenous researcher, he is particularly interested in how better research relationships can be made between universities, Native and non-Native researchers, and indigenous communities. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729102458 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729104339 Jonathan Rosa is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research centers on joint analyses of racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity, as well as collaborations with schools and communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. Rosa is author of the book, Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press), and co-editor of the volume, Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge). His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Language in Society, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.]]> 2020-09-08 20:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729104339 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729108127 2020-09-08 20:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729108127 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729111823 In her research and teaching, Professor Todd-Breland focuses on 20th-century United States urban and social history, African American history, and the history of education. Her work also explores interdisciplinary issues related to racial and economic inequality, urban public policy, neighborhood transformation, education policy, and civic engagement. Her book, A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), analyzes transformations in Black politics, shifts in modes of education organizing, and the racial politics of education reform from the 1960s to the present. Professor Todd-Breland’s writing has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Souls, and scholarly edited volumes. She has also contributed to popular outlets, including NPR, ESPN, the Washington Post, and local radio, television, print, and online media. Professor Todd-Breland also coordinates professional development workshops, curricula, and courses for K-12 teachers and gives public talks on African American history, urban education, and college readiness. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, Ford Foundation, and UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. Professor Todd-Breland earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729111823 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729119103 Dennis Tyler is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University. He has published work on African American literature and culture, disability studies, performance studies, and popular culture, and his essays and reviews have appeared in African American Review, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Gender: Space, The Feminist Wire, Oxford Bibliographies, American Literary History Online Review, and elsewhere. His first book, Disabilities of the Color Line, is forthcoming from New York University Press. His work has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. He has taught courses on Oprah’s Book Club, Black disability studies, African American autobiography, Black women novelists, and the First Amendment right to protest. ]]> 2020-09-08 20:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/729119103 https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/751600886 2020-09-16 13:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/maryann_ssrc/jnlobbcxs3kb2xqi/wish/751600886