2021-2022 Grant Recipients

In Academic Year 2021-2022, DEFCon awarded 30 Teaching Fellowships to support the development of coursework at the intersections of ethnic studies and digital humanities. DEFCon Teaching Fellowship Recipients receive a stipend of $2500 and an assigned mentor to support their work. They also receive support from a DEFCon Steering Committee member. Congratulations, DEFCon Fellows, and a warm thank you to our DEFCon Mentors!

The 2021-2022 DEFCon Teaching Fellows are:

Christina I. Acosta
Lecturer of Ethnic Studies, California State University Stanislaus

Course: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

Mentor: Maeve Adams & Adam Arenson, Manhattan College

Sohyun An
Professor of Social Studies Education, Kennesaw State University

Course: Elementary Social Studies Methods

Mentor: Susan Smulyan, Brown University

Mila Aponte-González
Adjunct Professor & Scholar, University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras Campus

Course: (Co)Laboratorio de salvaguarda de patrimonio cultural intangible: 1, 2, 3 Probando y sus diálogos radiales de gestión cultural

Mentor: Eliseo Jacob, Howard University

Molly Appel
Assistant Professor of English, Nevada State College

Course: Early Latina/o Literature

Mentor: R.C. Miessler, Gettysburg College

Robert Arellano
Professor, Oregon Center for the Arts, Southern Oregon University

Course: Oregonian & Latinx – The Latinx Legacy in Southern Oregon

Mentor: Margaret Rhee, University of Buffalo

Theresa Avila
Assistant Professor of Art History, Art Program Director & Curator of Broome Gallery, California State University Channel Islands

Course: Beauty that “Lies” in Our Own Backyard: Art and Data on U.S. National Parks

Mentor: Aneliese Shrout, Bates College

Raquel Baker
Assistant Professor of English, California State University Channel Islands

Course: Selfie: Self-Making and Black Digital Cultures

Mentor: Nicole Berland, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Denise I. Bossy
Associate Professor of History, University of North Florida

Course: Local Indigenous History through Digital Humanities

Mentor: Jennifer Guiliano, IUPUI

Dr. Bartholomew Brinkman
Associate Professor of English, Framingham State University

Course: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Mentor: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Penn State Behrend

Jasmine Daria Cannon
Researcher, Educator, and Curator, Rutgers University & Wake Tech Community College

Course: Black Feminist Futures: Intro to Black Feminist Digital Humanities

Mentor: Sharrona Pearl, Drexel University

Manu Samriti Chander
Associate Professor of English, Rutgers – Newark

Course: Senses of Brown

Mentor: Nabeel Siddiqui, Susquehanna University

Gisely Colón López
Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College & Lehman College & Doctoral Student in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center

Course: Transcending Borders: An Intro to Digital Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Mentor: R.C. Miessler, Gettysburg College

Dellyssa Edinboro
Assistant Professor of Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Bellevue College

Course: Introduction to Digital Race and Ethnic Studies

Mentor: Maeve Adams & Adam Arenson, Manhattan College

Leonardo Flores
Professor and Chair of English, Appalachian State University & President, Electronic Literature Organization

Course: Ethnic American Electronic Literature

Mentor: Amanda Visconti, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia

Pallavi Guha
Assistant Professor of Journalism, Towson University

Course: DEI in Mass Communication

Mentor: Katherine D. Harris, San José State University

Cathlin Goulding
Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY & the YURI Education Project

Course: Teaching Asian America in PK-12 Settings

Mentor: Alicia Rodriguez, Emory University

Laura Heffernan
Associate Professor of English, University of North Florida

Course: Representing Black Jacksonville: The Florida Federal Writers Project and Documentary Writing in the 1930s/40s

Mentor: Brandon Walsh, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia

Tru Leverette
Associate Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies, University of North Florida

Course: Writing Race and Citizenship in the Federal Writers’ Project and Beyond

Mentor: Brandon Walsh, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia

Tania Lizarazo
Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication + Global Studies Program, UMBC

Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities from a Hemispheric Perspective

Mentor: Marina del Sol, Howard University

Jennifer M. Lozano
Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature & Culture, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities: Community Archives, History, and Power

Mentor: Katherine D. Harris, San José State University

Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University – Kingsville

Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Mentor: Ryan Horne, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rebekkah Mulholland
Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento

Course: Black Heritage and Memories in Public History

Mentor: Eduard Arriaga, University of Indianapolis

Shiloh Green Soto
PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of California, Meced

Emily Lin
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Archives & Special Collections, University of California, Merced

Course: Digital Ethnic Studies: Race, Power, and Knowledge in the San Joaquin Valley

Mentor: Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University

Tamika Sterrs-Howard
Faculty, University of North Geogia

Course: Charting and Analyzing Jazz Topographies

Mentor: Michael Satlow, Brown University

Cara Snyder
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Louisville

Course: Online and in The Streets: Feminist Protest in the Américas

Mentor: Sharrona Pearl, Drexel University

Thea Quiray Tagle
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Program in Critical Ethnic & Community Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

Course: Cruising Utopias: Queer and Feminist Speculative Fictions

Mentor: Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland