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Celebrations From Our Community
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Ghina Abi-Ghannam awarded prestigious FAJI Fellowship
Abi-Ghannam's fellowship project will investigate the reciprocal interaction between international solidarity and domestic labor organizing in the United States.
Spring 2025
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Puleng J. Segalo listed as "10 African scholars to watch in 2025"
Through her scholarship which uses innovative visual/artistic research methodologies, Segalo has made an indelible mark in academia. Her areas of specialisation include Africa-centred psychology, gender and trauma, and decolonial feminism in psychology, while her research focuses on historical trauma, visual methodologies, and gendered suffering.
2025
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Dr. Maria Elena Torre and Dr. Michelle Fine awarded a three-year $865,000 grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“JUST CARE,” a three year participatory action research project, will document the lessons, challenges and insights of two community-centered/led efforts, in New York State and Florida, where children and families who have experienced punitive systems (in the name of child protection) engage in research, narrative transformation and the material redesign of systems of care, and the use/distribution of public dollars, with an aim of curating anti-racist systems of care for family well being and economic inclusion.
2024
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Brittany Brathwaite receives Smith School of Social Work 2nd Annual Laura Rauscher Teaching Award
Professor B. has consistently demonstrated a commitment to universal access in the classroom, embodied pedagogical practice that reflects deep values of collaboration, social justice, and collegiality and has made a deep impact on students and the wider community with her warmth and energy.
Fall 2024
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Michelle Fine elected in the National Academy of Education
The National Academy of Education, founded in 1965, is an honorific society of U.S. members and international associates elected based on outstanding education-related scholarship. NAEd’s mission is to advance high-quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice.
2025
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Brittany Brathwaite nominated by Top 50 In Digital Health
The Top 50 in Digital Health honorees are advancing reproductive and maternal health equity, providing accessible and affordable behavioral health care, transforming how pediatric care is delivered, and so much more. Brittany Brathwaite is an Health Equity Advocate Honoree advancing context-centered approaches that address health inequities and injustices.
2023