SJMC Weekly Announcements

Macau Ka Fai Mak, Danny Parker and Jordan Sallis successfully defended their dissertations this week. Macau's research uses survey data to study how the multiplicity of social media platform use interacts with each other to inform a variety of communities; Danny studies, via a multi-year ethnography, how poverty shapes political identity and participation in rural and urban communities; and Jordan's dissertation examines the evolution of hip hop culture and how its relationship to black male identity has been hijacked by the music industry. Congratulations on this huge accomplishment!

Jing Wang’s co-authored article "Finding Wang Tonghui: The life and after-life of a pioneer female Chinese anthropologist" published in Feminist Anthropology. This article recovers the obscured intellectual trajectories and contributions of Wang Tonghui (1912–1935AD), a pioneering female Chinese anthropologist, introducing her story for the first time to the Anglophone audience. Collaborating with Mengzhu An, Wei Ye, and Jing Xu, all authors contributed equally. Through interrogating the gendered power dynamics in the historical process of knowledge production in anthropology, the authors further seek to better understand their own condition as female anthropologists from the perspective of a non-Anglophone context. This article also reflects Wang’s broader research interest in feminist knowledge production and the intellectual histories of women in academia globally. Read the full article.

A group of SJMC alums enjoyed a Washington Nationals game on Sunday while in Washington D.C. for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics ceremony. Thank you to Valerie Todryk Krebs for hosting us!

Join us on Friday, May 10 in the Nafziger Room from 9-11 a.m. to celebrate the achievements of Courtney Bingham, Kelly Holm, Noreen Sharif, Omar Waheed and Katrina Williams as they complete their master's degrees.

Join us on Friday, May 10 at the Discovery Building from noon–2 p.m. for a celebration of our graduating undergraduate and graduate students. The event will include individual recognition of each graduate, a keynote speech from Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum (MA'82), Bucky Badger, professional photography and light refreshments.