CSSD Director Honored as One of 50 Explorers Changing the World
Paige West is highlighted by Forbes as one of 21 women to receive this recognition.
Paige West, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, was named as one of 50 honorees who are changing the world by the Explorers Club. This designation honors Professor West's years of work in conservation and biodiversity, and collaborations with indigenous communities. She is one out of 21 women to receive this honor and is highlighted by Forbes.
Read the full Forbes article here.
See the full list of the Explorers Club 50 here.
Learn more about Professor West’s work at CSSD through her past working groups:
Reframing Gendered Violence
Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Premilla Nadasen Named the Winner of the 2020 Ann Snitow Prize
The Transnational Black Feminisms co-director is the inaugural recipient of this award recognizing a feminist of outstanding vision, originality, generosity, and effectiveness, whose work combines intellectual and/or artistic pursuits with feminist and social justice activism.
Premilla Nadasen, co-director of the Transnational Black Feminisms and Social Justice After the Welfare State working groups, was awarded the 2020 Ann Snitow Prize for her extraordinary work as a feminist intellectual and activist. Professor Nadasen is the inaugural winner of the annual award, which recognizes a feminist of outstanding vision, originality, generosity, and effectiveness, whose work combines intellectual and/or artistic pursuits with feminist and social justice activism. After a short award ceremony, Dr. Nadasen was joined by Dr. Barbara Ransby for a conversation, The Politics of Care: Feminism, Race, and Grassroots Organizing.
Pacific Climate Circuits Co-Director Kevin Fellezs Moderates Symposium on Racial Equity
A recording of the full discussion on "Asian American Musicians Advocating for Social Justice and Racial Equity" can be found online.
Kevin Fellezs, former co-director of the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, moderated the recent symposium, "Asian American Musicians Advocating for Social Justice and Racial Equity," sponsored by Kul-Arts and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. The discussion featured Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Jen Shyu, Karl Evangelista, Erika Oba, and Vijay Iyer and focused on connections between these artists' work and their political advocacy as Asian Americans in the face of rising anti-Asian racism.
Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Co-Director Interviewed by the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM)
The conversation with Marianne Hirsch appears in the Observing Memories Magazine.
Marianne Hirsch, former Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and co-director of past working groups including Women Mobilizing Memory, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Engendering the Archive was interviewed by the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) in their Observing Memories Magazine. In the interview, Professor Hirsch spoke about the transmission of trauma across generations, the role of memory in social movements, and memory’s ability to strengthen democracy.