Department News
GS students honored with fellowships: Five Global Studies majors have been awarded fellowships to pursue their research during the coming months under the auspices of the St. Lawrence University Fellows program and the Tanner Fellowship program.
- Keilly Cutler ‘10: Zones of Production: The Emergence and Evolution of Special Economic Zones in China (SLU Fellowship)
- Bupe Mazimba ‘11: Microcredit: Zambia’s Salvation? (SLU Fellowship)
- Casey O’Brien ‘11: A Selective Analysis and Comparison of the Conception of Natural Rights in Western and Islamic Traditions (SLU Fellowship)
- Melih Cokaygil ‘11: An Ethnographic Field Study of Kurds in Southeastem Turkey (Tanner Fellowship)
- Khadeeja Hamid ‘11: Reconceptualizing Development in Rural India (Tanner Fellowship)
In addition to carrying out their research, Cutler and Hamid will be contributing content to the Weave as part of their projects. Congratulations to all five students on receiving these prestigious fellowships!
- Professor delivers lecture on Palestine and settler colonialism: Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies John Collins spoke on campus on Tuesday, February 17 as part of the university’s Contemporary Issues Forum. Collins’ lecture was titled “Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: Why Palestine Matters So Much.” With Palestine as a primary example, the lecture focused on the turbulent period that has been called the “long 1960s” to explore the global significance of relationship between settler-colonial projects and the specific forms of radical opposition they inevitably produce.
John Collins
Connecting current and former GS students: Sean Watkins, a Global Studies major who graduated in 2006, is spearheading an effort to build a network of current and former Global Studies students. As we near the ten-year mark of the department, now is a good time for this initiative. Our graduates are doing all sorts of interesting things, and our current students could benefit enormously from being in touch with these alumni. If you’re interested in joining this new Global Studies network, just send an email to Sean. Or, if you prefer, you can find us on Facebook (which, coincidentally or not, was the topic of Sean’s GS honors thesis). Thanks - and spread the word!
- New article on Palestine: The latest issue of the journal Globalizations, published in the UK by Taylor & Francis, contains an article by John Collins, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies. Titled “Confinement Under an Open Sky: Following the Speed Trap From Guernica to Gaza and Beyond,” the article addresses the relationship between acceleration and confinement in Palestine.
Globalizations
Selfa Chew joins the Global Studies Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2008-2009 academic year. During the fall semester, she taught two sections of GS102 “Introduction to Global Studies II: Race, Culture and Identity” as well as a special topics course (GS247D) titled “Warriors of the West: Buffalo Soldiers, Native Americans, and the Impact of Colonization.” In Spring 2009 she will teach two sections of GS102 as well as one section of “La Frontera: Cultural Identities on the Mexican-U.S. Borderland” (GS250).
Chew holds a MFA in Creative Writing and a MA in Borderlands History from the University of Texas at El Paso. She is an editor of Border Senses and coordinates the Mexican Contemporary Literature Conference. Her work (poetic, graphic, narrative and editorial) has been published in Peru, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Holland, and the United States. Her latest book is Mudas las Garzas (Ediciones Eon, 2007). She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of History at UTEP. Her research is focused on the Mexican Japanese relocation program during WWII.
- Review of professor’s book: The book Corridos in Migrant Memory, published in 2006 by Prof. Martha Chew Sanchez, was recently reviewed in the Journal of Folklore Research, a major scholarly journal of folklore and ethnomusicology. In the review, Maria Herrera-Sobek of UC-Santa Barbara describes the book as “a highly readable, deeply sensitive, and theoretically sophisticated study of the Mexican/Chicano corrido and its relationship to identity construction.” Read the full review.
Corridos in Migrant Memory
