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For As Long As The Lamp Is Burning: A One-Act Play
No full textMiriam Bravermann, (Mama) a Holocaust survivor living in 1990’s Jerusalem believes the Nazis have stolen the mezuzah off her door post. Her adult son Avshalom is concerned that she’s beginning to lose her grip on reality and wants her to move in with him and his family. Mama has taken on the near holy responsibility of remembering, and refuses to accept that she may actually be forgetting
Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence: Integrating New Tools and Methodologies for Community Conversations
No full textTransforming Narratives of Gun Violence: Integrating New Tools and Methodologies for Community Conversation
Theraputic Value of Virtual Reality for Stigma Management
No full textTheraputic Value of Virtual Reality for Stigma Managemen
Harvard WSRP Research Fellow
No full textTulasi Srinivas (Marlboro Institute) was awarded a $60,000 research associate fellowship in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She will spend the 2022-2023 academic year at Harvard working on a book-length project exploring the role of gender, caste, and religion in climate justice initiatives
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
No full textDaniel Gaucher (VMA) was awarded a $6,000 travel fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to visit European museums and institutions in Italy and Spain to study the different fine art techniques that were later adopted by motion arts and film. His research will shape the intensive introductory-level VMA production class Fine Art to Film
MCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction)
No full textMCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction
Collaboration as Decolonization? Methodology as a Framework for Research with Indigenous Peoples
No full textOn a bright afternoon in March 2022, Victoria Carlson, the Yurok Language Program Manager for the Yurok Tribe stood in front of Yurok language students at Hoopa Valley High School, on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in far Northern California. As she invited students to take home the informed consent permission forms I distributed through the maze of desks, she told students about how our collaboration started. “I didn’t know what to think of Mneesha at first. You know, there have been a lot of researchers who come to Native communities and don’t do right by us. But she kept coming back year after year and kept asking us what we thought and what we wanted. And now, it is really exciting to see what our research together looks like.” Victoria’s comment, showing rightful skepticism of the outsider replaced over time by mutual appreciation for partnership, stays with me. It is part of the story of how I came to do what I term collaborative methodology, an explicit attempt to decolonize political science research
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
No full textOugie Pak (VMA) was awarded a $6,000 travel fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to visit South Korea to study film production and film education practices that will inform his VMA filmmaking and topics courses
Balancing Expectations for Research Transparency: Institutional Review Boards, Funders, and Journals.
No full textThis chapter presents the educational intervention of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which offers a pathway to a Bachelor of Arts in Media, Literature, and Culture to incarcerated students at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord. A program of Emerson College, the Emerson Prison Initiative serves Emerson\u27s mission to increase educational access for historically marginalized students, including those in prison, and maintains rigorous standards for academic excellence for students and faculty comparable to those at Emerson\u27s Boston-based campus. The Emerson Prison Initiative is rooted in the notion that access to a college education can help transform how people engage in the world