2023-24 Year in Review

Year in Review Building Capacity

GLOBAL ARTS + HUMANITIES DISCOVERY

2023-24 Year in Review Theme

Building Capacity

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s 2023-24 Year in Review spotlights building capacity through collaboration, innovation, critical inquiry and ethical community engagement. Building capacity is not only about the addition of new programs but also about removing obstacles and, in some cases, repairing relationships — including those between the university and wider community.

Wendy S. Hesford Director

(Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme)

Wendy S. Hesford is a professor of English and Ohio Eminent Scholar. She is committed to enhancing Ohio State’s capacity for cross-disciplinary collaborations, particularly those foregrounding the impact of arts and humanities in driving social change and crosscultural understandings.

On Capacity

Letter from the Faculty Director

One of the Global Arts + Humanities

Discovery Theme’s core goals is to build intellectual community and capacity for crossdisciplinary collaborations that integrate the arts and humanities. Entering my sixth year as GAHDT’s director, this is an opportune moment to reflect on these intertwined goals.

The Society of Fellows program and accompanying book series, On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities, play a major role in cultivating crossdisciplinary relationships through collaborative research and creative practices. GAHDT’s pedagogical tools likewise provide support for collaborative and trust-building processes.

Cross-Disciplinarity

Building capacity for cross-disciplinary collaborations is linked to GAHDT’s emphasis on experiential learning, community engagement and its foundational commitment to supporting faculty and students as agents of social change.

GAHDT’s Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute, for example, brings teachers from Central Ohio together for multidisciplinary understandings of challenging topics, such as American slavery, immigration, and climate justice.

Building capacity for cross-disciplinary collaborations presents unique challenges, which include coming up against disciplinary silos and standard metrics and linear, solutions-based frameworks that may not align with collaborative research and the recursive and iterative nature of humanistic-oriented inquiry. Building capacity for cross-disciplinary inquiry necessitates moving beyond the instrumental and accumulative. Building capacity is not only about the addition of new programs but also about

removing obstacles and, in some cases, repairing relationships — including those between the university and wider community. Building capacity must be multi-directional.

Ethics of Care

‘Capacity’ typically refers to the maximum amount that something can contain or produce or what someone is able to do, as in the related term ‘capability’ (OED). Both concepts are entangled in often competing logics about autonomy and agency and theories of change.

Determinations of capacity can empower or harm. For example, as a threshold right, legal capacity (e.g., the capacity to consent) may empower. But ablest presumptions about capacity may also discriminate and infringe on individual rights. Thus, when reflecting on building capacity, we need to take into account who defines and determines capacity, and who is left out or harmed by these determinations?

These questions suggest that we ground capacity in equity. Building capacity necessitates accessible design principles and practices, equitable distribution of resources, and transparent and reciprocal relations among stakeholders.

What if we were to imagine the building of cross-disciplinary collaborations and capacity for and through an ethics of care? What if capacity were understood as the capability to respond in ethical ways?

Responding ethically involves generating meaning through shared processes, establishing trust across communities, leading with contextual awareness and foregrounding collective responsibility.

CrossDisciplinarity

The Global Arts + Humanities

principle, cross-disciplinarity is an umbrella term that encompasses the following approaches:

Multi-

DISCIPLINARITY incorporates different disciplinary perspectives and methods, which are brought together to address a common problem or issue.

Inter-

DISCIPLINARITY integrates theoretical frameworks, methods and skills from the involved disciplines throughout the research process.

Trans-

DISCIPLINARITY

creates new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translational innovations that move beyond disciplinespecific approaches to address a common problem or issue.

Guiding Principles

Mission

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is the gateway to the integrated arts and humanities at Ohio State. Our mission is to invest in cross-disciplinary collaborations that amplify the transformative power of the arts and humanities to respond to critical societal challenges to drive social change.

Core Goals

RESEARCH Build intellectual community and capacity across the university through crossdisciplinary research and creative practices that respond to critical societal challenges.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Deepen student engagement in the arts and humanities through cross-disciplinary research, experiential learning and professional development.

SOCIAL CHANGE Strengthen the university’s capacity for transformative, community-engaged partnerships through arts and humanities methods, orientations and interventions.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION Increase Ohio State’s national recognition as a leading landgrant institution and its distinction for excellence

Points of Pride

$5.8 million investment in cross-disciplinary research and arts + humanities interventions

Investment in cross-disciplinary collaborations that amplify the power of the arts and humanities to respond to critical societal challenges.

$2 million investment in mentoring and cross-disciplinary research support for students

Funds allocated to advance cross-disciplinary student engagement and experiential learning in the arts and humanities.

45% of grants invested in community-engaged projects

Nearly half of grants amplify community projects that embrace diverse perspectives and advance the transformative power of public-facing, partner-engaged work.

On Possibility book series

In collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press, each volume in this cross-disciplinary series –On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities – will align with the annual theme of GAHDT’s Society of Fellows program.

Difficult Subjects Institute expands

The Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute’s Communities of Practice now include three cohorts: American Slavery, Climate Justice and Immigration.

Cost-sharing grant collaborations

The 2024-25 funding cycle offered Arts Creation grants in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, and Community Engagement grants with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement.

Pilot projects

TIMELINE

2015 Provost announces Discovery Theme in liberal arts

2016 OAA awards $1.1M non-recurring cash grant to ASC Division of the Arts and Humanities

2016 Eleven two-year pilot projects funded

2017 Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project selected for ongoing investment

2018 Faculty director appointed

2018 Strategic planning process begins

2018 Faculty advisory committee formed

2018 Two additional pilot projects, Livable Futures and Public Narrative Collaborative, chosen for investment

Faculty-driven areas of investment

2018 Discovery Theme external program review

2018 Program manager hired

2018 Division-wide faculty retreat identifies four areas of research inquiry: Im/Mobility, Methods and Practices, Livability, and Community

2018 Launch of Arts Creation and Discovery Field School grants and Graduate Team Fellows program

2019 Program coordinator hired

2019 Strategic plan approved by OAA

2019 Launch of two special initiative grants: Indigenous Arts and Humanities; and Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice

TIMELINE

Building distinction + capacity

2018— GAHDT faculty cluster hiring program

2020 Three faculty fellows appointed to lead strategic development and Methods Amplifier

2020 K-12 Teaching Institute launched

2020 Society of Fellows Program launched

2020 Development of Innovative Interventions Grants Program for COVID-19

2020 Matching Grants on Racial Justice announced

2020 Inception of cross-disciplinary assessment and impact tools

2021 Graduate Professional Development Program launched

Developing sustainable partnerships

2021 Launch of book series, On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts and Humanities, with the Wexner Center for the Arts and OSU Press

2022 Launch of Imagined Futures Initiative with Office of Career Diversity

2022 Launch of Difficult Subjects climate justice track with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Sustainability Institute

2023 Programming with OPEEP

2024 Large grant collaborations with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement and Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts

CAPTION: Undergraduate Research Apprentices and mentor,

Professor Ryan Friedman (English), play collabORATE at the Society of Fellows orientation at the STEAM Factory.

Building Capacity

Capacity

One of the Global Arts + Humanities

Discovery Theme’s core goals is to build intellectual community and capacity for cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate the arts and humanities. This Year in Review spotlights building capacity through collaboration, innovation, critical inquiry and ethical community engagement. Building capacity is not only about the addition of new programs but also about removing obstacles and, in some cases, repairing relationships — including those between the university and wider community.

Noelle Arnold Capacity for CrossDisciplinarity

Senior Associate Dean (College of Education and Human Ecology)

Contemporary societal challenges are multicausal, complex and often interconnected. They defy comprehension from within the confines of any single discipline and require interrogation from a breadth of perspectives and orientations.

To advance the university’s capacity for crossdisciplinary inquiry, GAHDT’s signature Society of Fellows Program, now in its fourth year, brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars and creative practitioners to facilitate an exchange of ideas and methods on a shared theme.

This year, the Society of Fellows theme, Freedom Dreams, featured two keynote addresses on the topic of educational freedom and the process of imagining alternatives to inequitable systems. Over three hundred faculty, students, staff and community members attended the keynotes delivered by reknowned scholars Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA) and William F. Russell Professor Bettina L. Love (Columbia University).

Love provides a much needed and critical voice [...] to confront uncomfortable truths about the systems we uphold and the consequences they have on marginalized communities, particularly Black children. Her dedication to justice and equity serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for those of us striving to create a more inclusive and compassionate educational landscape.

(From Arnold’s welcome address)

CAPTIONS: Images from Bettina L. Love’s keynote on April 9, 2024. (Top and bottom right) Bettina L. Love. (Bottom left) Professor Treva Lindsey (WGSS) delivers introduction.

Liberation at the Margins Collective

LAM Collective believes that education is a practice of freedom. It demonstrates the power of collective learning through pedagogies that center restoration and healing.

LAM asks how the benefit of higher education in prison can be pushed even further when pedagogy is not merely an approach teachers take to inform instruction but also situates incarcerated people as authors, creators and practitioners.

Capacity for Critical Inquiry

GAHDT has created a suite of pedagogic tools that broaden the reach of the program’s annual themes by bringing the concomitant research insights into the classroom and beyond. The tools cultivate an orientation towards critical inquiry that highlights contextual and diverse understandings.

The Freedom Dreaming Tool, developed in alignment with the 2023-24 theme, Freedom Dreams, and in collaboration with the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project, facilitates relational thinking about complex social challenges. It encourages users to imagine a world free from harm and provides strategies for enacting change.

The tool has been used in a range of contexts, including by the Liberation At the Margins Collective (LAM) — an intellectual community at the Ohio Reformatory for Women made up of incarcerated students, university faculty and OPEEP staff.

dream harm act freedom dreaming

IMAGINE NEW WORLDS

Capacity Communityfor Engagement

GAHDT is committed to building Ohio State’s capacity for meaningful and sustainable community-engaged partnerships aligned with practices that respect stakeholders, prioritize their needs, foster reciprocity and an ethics of care.

Funded through a GAHDT Community Engagement grant, the “Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions” at the Columbus Museum of Art (September 8, 2023 to February 4, 2024) exemplifies building capacity through community engagement. The exhibition features interdisciplinary artist and researcher Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika), whose work fuses traditional and Indigenous craft techniques with emerging technologies to break boundaries and borders imposed by colonialism.

Associate Professor Kris Paulsen (History of Art) and museum staff mentored students involved with the project in exhibition planning, programming and publishing. The project enabled new connections between multiple departments and units on campus, including the Translational Data Analytics Institute, Wexner Center for the Arts, Center for Ethnic Studies, American Indian Studies program and Departments of Art, History of Art, Astronomy, Geology, Geography, Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Kris Paulsen

Associate Professor (History of Art)

“GAHDT’s Community Collaboration Grant helped us establish an ongoing relationship with the Columbus Museum of Art that introduces students to exhibition making and public scholarship through hands-on, integrative learning and professional experiences.”

CAPTION: “Woven Coordinates” (2022) by Sarah Rosalena

Lisa Florman

Vice Provost for the Arts (Office of Academic Affairs)

“Since its inception, GAHDT has been a strong supporter of interdisciplinary work across the arts and humanities and beyond. Whether through the Society of Fellows, Arts Creation Grants or other sponsored programs, its emphasis has always been on fostering creativity and innovation — qualities I take to be an essential part of education for citizenship.”

Capacity for Innovation

A primary catalyst for innovation in the twenty-first century is knowledge that harnesses insights from cross-disciplinary and collaborative perspectives and enables the development of complex and novel outputs. Every year, GAHDT ends the semester with a Society of Fellows showcase event that celebrates a wide range of faculty and student outcomes.

2021 — Human Rights Pasts and Futures

Held at Sullivant Hall, this showcase highlighted GAHDT’s Society of Fellows Program, COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants and Racial Justice Matching Grants. The event featured dynamic visual, video, audio and interactive exhibits and performances by Associate Professors Ryan Skinner (Music) playing the kora and Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance) (both pictured top right).

2022— Extinction | Imagination

This showcase featured faculty research reflections, graduate roundtables, a faculty and student performance of “Community Sharing of Cross-Cultural Explorations in Dance,” undergraduate research and creative spotlights and a graduate art exhibition (pictured middle right).

2023 — Archival Imaginations

Following remarks by Provost Melissa Gilliam, this event at the Faculty Club included a multi-modal sonic portrait, faculty panel, faculty dance performance, undergraduate research exhibit and interactive graduate student archive activity (pictured bottom left).

2024 — Freedom Dreams

This showcase was held at the WOSU Ross Community Studio. The evening featured a call and response format faculty presentation, a poetry reading by graduate students and a performance by Grammy-nominated surrealist blues poet Aja Monet (pictured bottom right).

Who We Are

Leadership

LISA FLORMAN | Office of Academic Affairs Vice Provost for the Arts

WENDY S. HESFORD | English Faculty Director

PUJA BATRA-WELLS Associate Director

HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES | History Director of Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute

DANIELLE FOSLER-LUSSIER | Music Director of Imagined Futures Initiative

TOM DUDGALE | Theatre, Film and Media Arts Faculty Fellow

TREVA LINDSEY | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty Fellow

Staff Members

SIATTA DENNIS-BROWN Program Coordinator, GAHDT/OPEEP

BREANNE LEJEUNE Communications Coordinator

ERIN ALLEN Graduate Assistant

ANNA BOGEN Graduate Assistant

Advisory Committee

MOLLIE BLACKBURN | Teaching and Learning

DAVID FILIPI | Wexner Center for the Arts

PHILIP GLEISSNER | Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

MARK MORITZ | Anthropology

CRYSTAL MICHELLE PERKINS | Dance

SÉBASTIEN PROULX | Design

ASHLEY SMITH-PURVIANCE | Women’s, Gender and Sexuaity Studies and African and African American Studies

LYN TJON SOEI LEN | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

AMY YOUNGS | Art

Faculty Cluster Hires

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s cluster-hired faculty bring expertise in community engagement, dance, education reform, gender inequality and global justice, language endangerment, transnational circulation of cultural forms, and science and technology in the Global South. These colleagues join scholarly communities across the university and advance GAHDT’s commitment to cross-disciplinarity.

JESSICA DELGADO | Associate Professor Departments of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Delgado specializes in the history of women, gender, sexuality, religion and race in Latin America; colonial Catholicism; materiality of devotion; and the intersection between social and spiritual status. She is the author of Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and the Church in Colonial Mexico, 1630-1770

VICTOR ESPINOSA | Assistant Professor Department of Sociology (Newark campus)

Espinosa is a sociologist, ethnographer and curator who researches the intersection of art and transnational migration. He is the author of several books; most recently Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs, and Saints, co-authored with Ana Elena Puga.

PHILLIP GLEISSNER | Assistant Professor Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Gleissner specializes in the cultures and literatures of socialist Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on print media in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. He has authored several books, most recently Resilient Kitchens, co-authored with Harry Eli Kashdan.

LILIANA GIL | Assistant Professor Department of Comparative Studies

Gil specializes in postcolonial and feminist studies of science and technology with a focus on Brazil and its global South connections. Her ongoing research and book project examines how improvisation has been thought of, performed, and valued across a range of sites of technological production.

JESSICA KANTAROVICH | Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics

Kantarovich specializes in language contact, change and variation, with a focus on language ecologies of the Arctic and language endangerment and shift in Siberia. Since 2022, she has also been conducting fieldwork on Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) in Greenland.

NYAMA McCARTHY-BROWN | Associate Professor Department of Dance

McCarthy-Brown’s research and creative practice is grounded in social justice and community engagement. Much of this research is presented in her book, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally-Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice.

MOMAR NDIAYE | Assistant Professor Department of Dance

Ndiaye has worked with choreographers from Africa, Europe, Asia and America. Since 2010, he has danced for Andreya Ouamba in the Dakarbased company, Premier Temps. With his company, Cadanses, he has toured several staged contemporary dance works.

ASHLEY SMITH-PURVIANCE | Assistant Professor Departments of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Smith-Purviance studies how educational policies and institutions shape and reproduce harmful inequalities for Black women and girls. At the intersection of state violence and school discipline, her work examines forms of punishment, anti-Blackness, and gender-based violence.

LYN TJON SOEI LEN | Assistant Professor Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Tjon Soei Len’s scholarly interests include contract theory and feminist legal theory as they relate to gender inequality and global justice. This research is presented in her book, Minimum Contract Justice: A Capabilities Perspective on Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts

Postdocs

The Global Arts + Humanities’ Post-MFA and Postdoctoral Researcher Program fosters cross-disciplinary exchange with the goal of facilitating their entry into the professoriate and public arts and humanities. The program includes a strong mentoring component and also offers a series of formal and informal professional development opportunities.

VAN MY TRUONG | Postdoctoral Researcher Imagined Futures

Truong is the recipient of an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship whose work explores migrant memory in contemporary culture. Truong explores allegories of migrant boat crossings and brings together a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, trans-historic, transoceanic archive of migrant culture.

BRETT ZEHNER | Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Comparative Studies

Zehner is a scholar of performance studies and new media who researches emerging technologies of resistance. Their work explores the ubiquitous emergence of predictive media in the form of machine learning and aims to provide a conceptual genealogy of racial capitalism and automated systems.

Society of Fellows Faculty

Multidisciplinary inquiry is built on the strength of disciplinary foundations and comparative skills. The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community that supports the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to critically engage the annual thematic.

This year’s theme, Freedom Dreams, focuses on the transformative role of arts and humanities in imagining alternatives to oppressive carceral systems and envisioning more life-affirming and equitable futures. The 2023-24 program was faciliated by GAHDT Director Wendy S. Hesford (English) and Leadership Faculty Fellow Treva Lindsey (WGSS).

DAVID ADAMS | Department of English (Lima campus)

Ableist Keywords: Dismantling Psychiatric Knowledge

Ableist Keywords is a series of essays on psychiatric terminology used to justify stigma, coercion and control — often leading to involuntary confinement and restraints. This work will bring awareness of the social construction of psychiatric terms to an area still dominated by the medical model.

ANNA BABEL | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Public-facing project on drug interdiction system

This project explores data compiled by US law enforcement concerning the arrest of drug smugglers. The dossiers comprise “character” letters from family members pleading for sentencing leniency. This project draws attention to efforts of this hidden prison population and their advocates.

JONAS N.T. BECKER | External Fellow (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Better or Equal Use

This series of photographs depicts redevelopments on Appalachian mountaintop removal mining sites. The sites depicted were ushered in by a congressional act mandating that once mining was complete, companies must redevelop sites for “equal or better economic or public use.”

RYAN FRIEDMAN | Department of English

Holding Their Own: African American Musical Specialities in U.S. Cinema

This project focuses on white-produced Hollywood specialties — non-narrative scenes featuring well-known Black musical performers “as themselves,” playing to a white onscreen audience — and argues that these scenes critique oppressive structures and are sites of freedom dreaming.

PRANAV JANI | Department of English

1857 and the Anticolonial Imagination: Militancy, Nationalism and the Spectre of Hindutva

This book project clarifies the relationship between abolition, revolution and emancipation behind the figure of Gandhi. It traces the uneven process by which the anticolonial Rebellion of 1857 was integrated into popular nationalist consciousness by militants, shaping South Asian ideas about liberation.

PIL HO KIM | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Freedom Dreaming Across the Pacific

Abolitionism was a transnational movement by nature, but its geographic focus remained largely on the Atlantic side of the globe. This project gathers experts who illuminate the lesser-known history of freedom dreams across the Pacific through public talks, exhibitions and academic workshops and publications.

MIRANDA MARTINEZ | Department of Comparative Studies

Book project on issues of financial inclusion and debt abolition

This project explores wealth-building initiatives that challenge systemic financial predation directed at minority communities that attempt to transform the everyday experience of “the financial” from one of extraction towards new liberatory possibilities.

AMY SHEERAN | External Fellow (Independent Scholar)

Segismundo Dreams of Freedom

This project proposes a radical new reading of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s c. 1629 play, La vida es sueño (Life Is a Dream), by exploring the nascent early modern racialization of skin color. The project will also advance an in-progress video game adaptation of the play through the early prototyping phase.

JENNIFER SUCHLAND | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and East European Languages and Cultures

Are Human Rights Obsolete?

This project critiques the U.S. anti-trafficking apparatus and its entanglement with carceral human rights systems. These systems primarily propose neoliberal carceral freedom rather than challenge logics propelled by capitalism. Given these entanglements, Suchland asks: Are human rights obsolete?

JARED THORNE | Art

26 Planned Parenthoods

This book project seeks to photograph every remaining Planned Parenthood facility in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Alongside the images will be written testimonials from the facilities’ healthcare workers. This book will serve as a document and acatalyst for discussion.

Society of Fellows Graduate Team Fellows

The Graduate Team Fellowship Program prepares graduate students in the arts and sciences with an opportunity to gain cross-disciplinary mentorship embedded in a collaborative ecology. To date, the GTF program has supported 48 interdisciplinary scholars.

This one-of-a-kind program provides students for a newly evolving job market – one highly dependent on networks, technology and a collaborative ethos. Graduate fellows meet monthly with GAHDT faculty mentors, engaging in cross-disciplinary dialogues that provide opportunities for carefully-honed and translatable research descriptions, job talks and public-facing contributions.

This experience builds tolerances for varying academic perspectives, fostering in graduate students a receptivity towards network-based insight building. This fellowship encourages agility in methods and modes, creativity of mind and practice, and intellectual grit.

This year’s program mentors are Society of Fellows Faculty member Professor Anna Babel (Spanish and Portuguese) and Associate Professor Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts).

ISAIAH BACK-GAAL

MFA Student, Department of English (Creative Writing)

Project Title: Doikayt/Hereness: Poetry and Politics in Place

KAYLEY DeLONG

PhD Student, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Project Title: Dark Tourism

ALISSA ELEGANT

PhD Student, Department of Dance

Project Title: The Persistence of the “Inefficient” Art of Dance in Workplaces of China’s Railway Industry

ÉKÁYỌDÉ ODÙMBỌNÍ

PhD Student, Department of English

Project Title: Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present

ARIANA STEELE

PhD Student, Department of Linguistics

Project Title: Liberation at the Intersections: Black Nonbinary Tactics of Subversion Through Language

JESSICA TJIU

PhD Student, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Project Title: Abolition Feminism: Asian/Asian American Women and the Politics of Sex Trafficking

İLAYDA ÜSTEL

PhD Student, Department of Design

Project Title: Translating Abolition: Imagining Equitable Futures in Turkey

MAHKAMEH MALLAH ZADEH

PhD Student, Department of Design

Project Title: Empowering Marginalized voices in Healthcare: A CoDesign Approach to Foster Equitable Futures

Society of Fellows Undergraduate Research Apprentices

The Global Arts + Humanities’ Undergraduate Research Apprenticeships are competitive grants that provide upper-level students the opportunity to be mentored through multidisciplinary approaches to Freedom Dreams, to build an intellectual cohort around this theme and to produce research/creative responses to inquiries impelled by these engagements.

Award recipients develop research and creative projects and participate in group mentoring sessions. They also collaborate with GAHDT Communications Coordinator, Breanne LeJeune, to translate their research for a public audience; student webpages are available at go.osu.edu/sof-undergraduate

This year’s program mentor is Society of Fellows faculty member Professor Ryan Friedman (English).

JAIDEN DAVIS

Major: African and African American Studies

Project Title: Rest or Resilience?: An Analysis of the Implications of Black Resilience Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Practices on Health Outcomes and Rest Opportunities within Black Communities

JACK FEDERINKO

Major: Dance

Project Title: Capturing the Cool: Exploring Dance Notation Strategies for African Diasporic Aesthetics of Dance

ESTHER QUAYE

Major: Human Development and Family Science

(Concentration: Integrated Studies)

Project Title: Community Engagement as Crucial Support for Children of Incarcerated Parents and Their Families

AMADEA VILLANUEVA

Major: Drawing and Painting

Project Title: Latine Representation as Social Change both in the Past and Present Artworld

CLOVIS WESTLUND

Majors: Public Management, Leadership and Policy and Sociology

Project Title: Un/Deschooling: Legacies of Contradiction in Alternatives to Mainstream, Public Education

Project Directory

Arts Creation Grants

Afro-Latinexperimentations: Social Dance as Social Justice (2024)

Irvin Manuel Gonzalez (Dance) • Alfonso Cervera (Dance)

Exhibition and Education Lab at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019)

Kris Paulsen (History of Art)

Into the Void (2019)

Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Paul Sutter (Columbus-based Composer)

Jardineros: Care’s Repair, Landscape’s Labor (2024)

Michelle Franco (Knowlton School of Architecture) • Erica Levin (History of Art)

La Sape: Transgression or Assimilation (2022)

Kathryn Logan (Dance) • Momar Ndiaye (Dance)

Learning Lichens: A Symbiotic Co-Creation (2024)

Amy Youngs (Art) • Emma Kline (Art and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology) • Doo-Sung Yoo (Art)

Making Good Trouble (2024)

Joni Boyd Acuff (AAEP) • Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

#MentalHealthDance2U (2019)

Nena Couch (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)

Micro-Residency Program (2022)

Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI) • Kelly Kivland (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kris Paulsen (History of Art) • Amy Youngs (Art)

Monuments of Scioto Valley (2022)

Beth Blostein (Architecture) • Jacob Boswell (Architecture) • John Low (Comparative Studies) • Bart Overly (Architecture) • Justin Parscher (Architecture)

Performing Afghanistan (2019)

Leslie Ferris (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Kevin McClatchy (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Janet Parrott (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Alam Payind (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

Taste of Exile (2024)

Illya Mousavijad (Art) • Jeremy Patterson (ACCAD)

Weather Reports You (2019)

Daniel Roberts (History) • Jeanine Thompson (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

The Woods (2019)

Marc Ainger (Music) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design)

Centers + Institutes Grants

Advancing Instructional Redesign on-Demand (2020)

Joy Balta (Medicine) • Dir. Kay Halasek (Michael V. Drake Institute) • Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo (Michael V. Drake Institute) • David Sovic (Michael V. Drake Institute)

Archiving Black Performance: 3x3 (2023)

Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)

Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment and Stages of Being (2020)

Adélékè Adéèko (African and African-American Studies Community Extension Center) • Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance) • Dir. Larry Williamsom Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)

Armed Conflicts and Im/Mobility (2023)

Dir., Angela Brintlinger (Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) • Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Dir., Dorothy Noyes (Mershon Center for International Security Studies)

Asian Futures: A Collaborative Proposal (2019)

Dir. Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Pranav Jani (South Asian Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir. Harvey Miller (Center for Urban and Regional Analysis) • Mytheli Sreenivas (History) • Dir. Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion) • Max Woodworth (Geography)

Building Capacity for the Internship Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2020)

Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Karen Simonian (Wexner Center for the Arts) co-Interim Executive Dir., Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)

Building Inclusivity Across and Beyond the Ohio State Community (2023)

Program Dir., Pranav Jani (Asian American Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) Program Dir., Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Latino/a Studies) • Asso. Dir., Leila Vieira (Center for Ethnic Studies) Program Dir., Elissa Washuta (American Indian Studies)

Environmental and Social Justice Arts and Humanities (2020)

Dir., John Brooke (Center for Historical Research) • Dir., Elena Irwin (Sustainability Institute) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Piers Norris Turner (Center for Ethics and Human Values) • Interim Executive Dir., Beverly Vandiver (Kirwin Institute)

Expanding Accessibility at the Wex (2023)

Tracie McCambridge (Director of Art & Resilience, WCA) • Helyn Marshall (Accessibility Manager, WCA)

Experimental Archaeology and Medieval-Renaissance Worlds (2019)

Dir., Chris Highley (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Hiphop Studies in Queer Black Feminism Conference (2020)

Elaine Richardson (Teaching and Learning) • Dir., Larry Williamson Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)

Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship (2020)

Dir., Janice Aski (Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures)

K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2020) Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • Dir., Scott Schwenter (Center for Latin American Studies)

Living Well, Dying Well (2019)

Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Melissa Curley (Comparative Studies) • Hannibal Hamlin (English) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion)

Revisioning Folklore Studies in the Academy and the Public Square (2020)

American Folklore Society • Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies)

Toward a Digital Humanities Support Network (2020)

Leigh Bonds (OSU Libraries) • Matt Lewis (Translational Data Analytics Institute) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory)

Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Present-Day Indigenous Peoples in Ohio (2020)

Asso. Dir., Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., John N. Low (Newark Earthworks Center) • Brian Snyder (InFACT)

Tuning to Our Environment (2023)

Tanya Calamoneri (Dance) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD)

Summer Institute Grants

GAHDT Fellows at the DMAC Institute (2020)

Scott DeWitt (English) • John Jones (English) • Liz Miller (English)

Global and Popular Music Summer Youth Camp (2020)

Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Richard Palese (Music)

Ohio State to Community Dance-Intensive Pipeline (2020) Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Summer Dance Intensive (2023) Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Summer Translation Collaborative (2023) Dir., Patricia Sieber (T&I Program) • Dir., Ying Zhang (Institute for Chinese Studies)

Voices of Franklinton (2020)

Susan Melsop (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)

Community-Engaged Projects

Anti-Racism and Social Justice Education in the Performing Arts (2021)

Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance) • Mindi Rhoades (Teaching and Learning)

¡Aquí se Habla Español! Public Outreach at COSI in Spanish (2019)

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics) • Leslie C. Moore (Linguistics) • Laura Wagner (Psychology)

Be the Street (2019)

Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies) • Moriah Flagler (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

Being Black / Becoming Black (2021)

Adéléke Adéeko (African and African American Studies / English) • Kwaku Korang (Comparative Studies)

Care, Culture, & Justice as Practice: Authentic Collaborative Community Engagement (2024) (Grant offered in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement)

Joni Acuff (AAEP) • Terron Banner (Urban Arts Space and AAEP) • Sheri Neale and Marshall Shorts (Maroon Arts Group) • Alice Ragland (Empowering Young Voices)

Drug Prevention at High Schools in the Epicenter of the Opiate Epidemic (2019)

Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alina Sharafutidinova (City of Columbus Department of Public Safety / Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services)

Equity Framework at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2021)

Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)

Fostering Racial Justice: Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning (2021)

Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Caroline T. Clark (Teaching and Learning)

Linden Murals of Empowerment: Public Art for Racial Justice (2021)

Njeri Kagotho (Social Work) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Rebecca Persons (Social Work)

Public Narrative Collaborative (2019)

Lisa Florman (History of Art) • Sarah Iles Johnston (Classics) • Jim Phelan (English) • George Rush (Art)

Experiential Learning

Discovery Field Schools

Midwest and Appalachia Field School: ART 5890 (2024)

Faculty Leaders: Dionne Lee (WGSS and Art) • Dani ReStack (Art)

Border Issues and Activism in Ohio (2021)

Faculty Leaders: Stephanie Aubry (Spanish and Portuguese) • Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies)

Dance Brazil (2018)

Faculty Leaders: Daniel Roberts (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance)

Dancing Connections and Communities (2019)

Faculty Leader: Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Defining the Color Line: Race, Democracy and the Enslaved Community at James Madison’s

Monteplier (2018, 2019, 2020)

Faculty Leader: Hasan Kwame Jeffries (History)

Experimental Cinema in New York City (2019)

Faculty Leaders: Roger Beebe (Art) • Erica Levin (History of Art)

Human Rights on the Ground in New York City (2022)

Faculty Leader: Amy Shuman (English)

Livable Futures’ Field School (2019, 2021)

Faculty Leaders: Thomas Davis (English) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Montgomery Field School

Faculty Leaders: Mindi Rhodes (Teaching and Learning) • Gloria Wilson (AAEP)

Ohio Folklore Field School Course (2019, 2021)

Faculty Leaders: Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies) • Cassie Patterson (Center for Folklore Studies)

Student-Engagement Grants

Fostering Student Belonging Through Co-Design (2024)

Jeff Haase (Design) • Sebastien Proulx (Design)

Graduate Professional Development Grants

Anti-Racism in the Arts (2021)

Department of Dance • Award term: Three semesters

Archiving Black Performance (2021)

Department of Dance • Award term: Two semesters

Creatives at Barnett Center (2023)

Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise • Award term: Two semesters

Embodied Access (2024)

Department of Dance • Award term: Three semesters

English Undergraduate Studies Program (2022)

Department of English • Award term: Three semesters

Environmental History Center (2023 & 2024)

Department of History • Award term: Three semesters each cycle

Lord Denney’s Players (2023 & 2024)

Department of English • Award term: (2023) Two semesters (2024) One semester

Narrative Journal (2022)

Department of English • Award term: Three semesters

Native American and African American Citizenship and Civic Engagement, 1780-1950 (2024)

Department of History • Award term: Three semesters

Ohio Prison Education Exchange (2022)

Departments of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African and African American Studies • Award term: Three semesters

Picturing Black History: A Partnership with Getty Images (2021, 2022)

Department of History • Award term: Two semesters per award

Promusica Columbus (2021, 2022, 2023)

School of Music • Award term: Two semesters per award

Publishing Industry Apprenticeship (2024)

The Ohio State University Press • Award term: Three semesters

Socially-Responsible Learning and Community Engagement (2022, 2023)

Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy • Award term: Three semesters per award

T&I Education, Language Access and Social Change (2021)

Department of East Asian Languages and Literature • Award term: Three semesters

Thinking Through the Value of Life by Its Treatment After Death (2024)

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity • Award term: Three semesters

Matching Funds for Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice

Arts-Based Anti-Racist Initiatives in High Schools (2020)

Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Big Walnut High School • Joni Boyd Acuff (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)

Increasing Black Women in Ohio Elected Office (2021)

Wendy Smooth (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Political Science)

Hidden Figures Revealed: Dynamic History and Narratives of Black Mathematicians at The Ohio State University (2020)

Ranthony A.C. Edmonds (Mathematics)

Racial Pathways (2021)

Stephanie Dodd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Clayton Hurd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Richard Kinsley (Ohio Campus Compact) • Zoë Plakias (Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics)

Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)

Using a STEAM Model to Develop Access Pipeline for Middle Grade Students in Columbus Metro Schools (2021)

Melvin Pascall (Food and Science Technology) • Nick White (Department of English

Open Grants

Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium (2019)

Victor Espinosa (Sociology) • Danielle Schoon (Sociology / Anthropology)

Collaboration for Humane Technologies (2019)

Peter K. Chan (Design) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)

Collaborative Gaming Platform for Disabled Children and Their Families (2019)

Asimina Kiourti (Electrical Engineering) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design) Susan Thrane (Nursing)

The Global Mediterranean (2019)

Bob Holub (Germanic Languages and Literatures) • Dana Renga (French and Italian) • Barry Shank (Comparative Studies)

How the Arts and Humanities Can Benefit Our Wellbeing (2019)

Elizabeth B. -N Sanders (Design) • Paul Reitter (German) • Yvette Shen (Design)

Khasi Interfaces (2019)

Mark Bender (East Asian Languages and Literature) • John Low (Newark Earthworks Center)

Livable Futures (2019)

Thomas Davis (English) • Jennifer Suchland (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies / Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)

Migration, Mobility and Immobility (2019)

Theodora Dragostinova (History) • Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Music) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Robin Judd (History) • Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Spanish and Portuguese) • Ryan Skinner (Music)

Uses of Narrative Theory (2019)

Katra Byram (German) • Jim Phelan (English)

Special Initiatives Grants

COVID-19 Grants

Audiences and Online Reception: Before and After COVID-19 (2020)

Harmony Bench (Dance) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Hannah Kosstrin (Dance) • Danielle Schoon (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures / Sociology)

COVID Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona (2020)

Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies)

Cultural Presentation and the Mardis Gras Indians of New Orleans (2020)

Virginia Cope (English) • Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies)

Dance in the Time of COVID-19 (2020)

Nyama McCarthy Brown (Dance)

Designing a Post-Pandemic Return to Campus (2020)

Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Stephanie Orr (Office of Distance Education and eLearning)

Designing for Public Health: Humanities and Arts Leading Transformation During COVID-19 (2020)

Adame Fromme (Design) • Hazal Gumus-Ciftci (Design) • Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Susan Melsop (Design) • Will Nickley (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)

Investigating Human Dignity in Practice During the COVID-19 Crisis (2020)

Melissa Guadron (English) • Christa Teston (English)

Measuring Artists’ Challenges and Resilience After COVID-19 (2020)

Elizabeth Cooksey (Sociology) • Rachel Skaggs (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)

Muted, Isolated and Displaced by Social Distancing (2020)

Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Crystal Perkins (Dance)

Pandemic Collaborative (2020)

Diane Brogan-Habash (Medicine) • Julia Nelson Hawkins (Classics) • Jennifer Olejownik (Medicine /Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services) • Elizabeth Weinstock (EquitasHealth / Columbus Veteran’s Administration / Franklin Correctional Center)

Pandemic Pedagogies: Precursors, Paradigms and Portents (2020)

Jim Harris (History) • Thomas McDow (History)

Poetry and COVID-19: A Collaboration Between Creative Writers and Environmental Scientists (2020)

Zoë Brigley Thompson (English)

Political Discourses During COVID-19 and the Impact on International Education (2020)

Zhiguo Xie (East Asian Languages and Literatures) • Cindy Xinquan Jiang (Office of International Affairs)

Quarantine Cookbook: Documenting Migrant Food Networks Under COVID-19 (2020)

Philip Gleissner (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Harry Kashdan (University of Pennsylvania)

Recovery Project: Actions of Survival, Archival of Resilience (2020)

Amrita Dhar (English) • Sona Kazemi Hill (English) • Margaret Price (English)

Talking in the Clinic: Barriers and Facilitators of Chronic Disease Adherence (2020)

Seuli Bose Brill (Medicine) • Gabriella Modan (Linguistics) • Nathan Richards (English)

Virtual Field Lab (2020)

Lauren McInroy (Social Work) • Maria Palazzi (Design)

What does Religion Sound Like in the Age of COVID-19 (2020)

Lauren Pond (Center for Study of Religion) • Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies)

Indigenous Arts and Humanities

Ancient Indigenous Monuments and Modern Indigenous Art (2019)

Christine Ballengee Morris (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center)

Indigenous Ohio: Ohio State and Native Arts: Humanities Past and Present (2019)

Cheryl Cash (Comparative Studies) • John N. Low (Comparative Studies) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences)

K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2019)

Elvia Andia Grageda (Spanish and Portuguese) • Alcira Dueñas (History) • Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Spanish and Portuguese) • Richard Fletcher (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Megan Hasting (Center for Latin American Studies) • Eric J. Johnson (OSU Libraries) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese)

Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Grants

Ohio State Prison Education Exchange Project (2019)

Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Transformative Access Projects: Moving from Inclusion to Equity (2019)

Evelyn Hoglund (Speech and Hearing) • Margaret Price (English) • Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)

Collaborators

Colleges, Schools and Offices

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Education and Human Ecology

College of Engineering

College of Medicine

College of Public Health

College of Social Work

Moritz College of Law

Knowlton School of Architecture

School of Environment and Natural Resources

School of Music

Office of Distance Education and eLearning

Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Office of International Affairs

Centers and Institutes

ACCAD

Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise

DESIS Lab

Humanities Institute

Kirwan Institute

Center for Bioethics

Center for Ethics and Human Values

Center for Ethnic Studies

Center for Folklore Studies

Center for Human Resource Research

Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Center for Latin American Studies

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing

Center for the Study of Religion

Melton Center for Jewish Studies

Middle East Studies Center

Multicultural Center

Newark Earthworks Center

STEAM Factory

Departments

Department of African-American and African

—Studies

Department of Anthropology

Department of Art

Department of Arts, Administration, Education

—and Policy

Department of Astronomy

Department of Classics

Department of Comparative Studies

Department of Dance

Department of Design

Department of East Asian Languages and

—Literatures

Department of Education Studies

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of English

Department of Evolution, Ecology and

—Organismal Biology

Department of French and Italian

Department of Geography

Department of Germanic Languages

—and Literatures

Department of History

Department of History of Art

Department of Linguistics

Department of Mathematics

Department of Near Eastern Languages

—and Cultures

Department of Philosophy

Department of Political Science

Department of Psychology

Department of Slavic and Eastern European

—Languages and Cultures

Department of Sociology

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality

—Studies

Educational Institutions

Bexley City Schools

Columbia University (New York City)

Columbus City Schools

Columbus School for Girls

Cornell University

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

King’s College (London)

London School of Economics

Michigan State University

Olentangy Schools

Tulane University

University of Cape Town

Libraries

Thompson Library Special Collections

University Archives

University Libraries

Museums

Columbus Museum of Art

COSI

Freedom Center Cincinnati

Montpelier Estate (Virginia)

Urban Arts Space

Wexner Center for the Arts

Ohio Community Partners

City of Columbus Public Safety

CleanTurn Enterprises (Columbus)

Columbus Veteran’s Association

Equitas Health

Franklin Correction Center

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Ohio Arts Council

Ohio Department of Mental Health

—and Addiction

Ohio Humanities Council

Our Lady of Guadalupe Center (Columbus)

Watch Me Grow (Columbus)

Westland Flea Market (Columbus)

WYSO (NPR affiliate for greater Dayton)

YMCA of Central Ohio (Columbus)

(Inter)National Partners

Albany Park Theatre Project (Chicago)

Common Ground Relief (New Orleans)

Reconstruction Inc. (Philadelphia)

Sokolow Foundation

Southern Poverty Law Center

Event Spotlights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 to February 4, 2024

Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions Exhibition (with Columbus Museum of Art)

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Embroidered Past, Imagined Future: Lucie Kamuswekera and the Violence in Eastern Congo (with Mershon Center for International Security Studies)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Society of Fellows Autumn Keynote: Freedom Dreams and US Democracy, with Robin D.G. Kelley (with Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project)

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Decarcerating Disability, with Liat Ben-Moshe (with Disability Studies Program)

JANUARY 23, 2024

Elizabeth Povinelli and Sarah Rosalena in Conversation (with Wexner Center for the Arts)

JANUARY 31, 2024

The BackWall: Art Uncuffed (with Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project)

APRIL 9, 2024

Society of Fellows Spring Keynote: The Pursuit of Educational Freedom, with Bettina L. Love (with Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project)

CAPTION: Transposing a Form, 2019-2023, by Sarah Rosalena. Included in the “In All Directions” exhibition (September 8, 2023 to February 4, 2024) at The Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Supported by a GAHDT Community Engagement Grant. Photo by Jenalee Harmon.