2018 IRT Cohort
Joy Houlder, IRT ’18
Calvin Dreams
-written and published by Joy Houlder
2017 IRT Cohort
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, IRT ’17
Ph.D. student, Brown University
Strut
– Agape Editions
2014 and 2015 Cohort
Tashal Brown, IRT ’14 and Eliana Castro, IRT ’15 contributed to the article, The Impossibility of Being “Perfect and White”: Black Girls’ Racialized and Gendered Schooling Experiences, first published in the American Educational Research Journal.
2013 IRT Cohort
Kat J. Stephens, IRT ’13
Ph.D. student, Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kat’s piece “Just a Unicorn” is included in a JCSCORE special issue entitled, “Disability Justice, Race & Education.” Listen to Kat read her poem on YouTube – https://youtu.be/642Nb7rrJ9E
2011 IRT Cohort
Elizabeth Gil, IRT ’11
Assistant Professor, department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership, St. John’s University
Chapter in The Race Controversy in American Education, titled “A Racial Opportunity Cost Analysis of Charter Schools and Parental Involvement”
– Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Aria Halliday, IRT ’11
Assistant Professor, of women’s studies, University of New Hampshire
“Envisioning Black Girls Futures: Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda Feminism and New Understandings of Black Girl Sexuality in Popular Culture”
– Black Girlhood issue of the journal – Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e Lucchesi, IRT’11
Executive Director, Sovereign Bodies Institute
“Indians Don’t Make Maps”: Indigenous Cartographic Traditions and Innovations.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, forthcoming.
“Mapping Geographies of Canadian Colonial Occupation: Pathway Analysis of Murdered Indigenous Women.” Gender, Place, and Culture, forthcoming.
Annita Lucchesi and Abigail Echo-Hawk – “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A Snapshot of Data from 71 Urban Cities in the United States.” Urban Indian Health Institute, 2018.
“Mapping for Social Change: Cartography and Community Activism in Mobilizing Against Colonial Gender Violence.” Mapping Meaning 2 (1), 2018: 14-21.
2009 IRT Cohort
Eliana Castro, IRT ’09
“Changing the Narrative on Diversifying the Teaching Workforce: A Look at Historical and Contemporary Factors That Inform Recruitment and Retention of Teachers of Color”
– Journal of Teacher Education, December 4, 2018
Sakeena Everett, IRT ’09
Article, “Untold Stories” : Cultivating Consequential Writing with a Black Male Student through a Critical Approach to Metaphor.
2008 IRT Cohort
Donavan Ramon, IRT ’08
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University
Curated, edited and introduced a special collection commemorated the 90th Anniversary of the publication of Nella Larsen’s Passing.
-South Atlantic Review
2005 IRT Cohort
Awendela Grantham, IRT ’05
Faculty Member, North Carolina A&T State University
The Africana Experience: We’ve Come Thus Far
– Great River Learning
TROPES: Church Politics & Its Impact on The Black Female Identity
-Independently published
About the Book/Author:
In this book, Dr. Grantham dismantles tropes in the Black Church Movement. A trope is a recurrent theme which conditions the public to believe it. She uncovers how tropes influence church politics with dangerous consequences. They impact black women’s identity in the Church and cause havoc in their lives. She frames her personal story in the context of African American History and warns readers about how to stay out of deception!
Dr. Grantham’s research focuses on how social identities are developed in the context of religious and political movements, and on how we can use that information for social activism.
Monica Muňoz Martinez, IRT ’05
Assistant Professor of American studies, Brown University
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
– Harvard University Press
Francis Tobienne, Jr., IRT ’05
English Teacher, Inspiration Academy
The Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) Honors Society Award-Nominated Books | Research:
The Position of Magic in selected Medieval Spanish Texts
-Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Occultus: the hidden and macabre in literature & film
-Cognella
Mandeville’s Travails: merging travel, theory and commentary
-Delaware UP
2004 IRT Cohort
Bettina Judd, IRT ’04
Assistant Professor of gender, women and sexuality studies, University of Washington
Patient
– Black Lawrence Press
Michelle Purdy, IRT ’04
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Educational Studies, Washington University, St. Louis
Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools
– University of North Carolina Press
co-edited a volume – Using Past as Prologue: Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History
2003 IRT Cohort
Jennifer Johnson, IRT ’03
Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism
– University of Pennsylvania Press
2002 IRT Cohort
André Carrington, IRT ’02
Assistant Professor of English, Drexel University
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
– University of Minnesota Press
Uri McMillan, IRT ’02
Assistant Professor of English, African American studies, and gender studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
– NYU Press
LaKisha Simmons, IRT ’02
Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
– UNC Press
Shively T.J. Smith, IRT ’02
Assistant Professor of New Testament, Wesley Theological Seminary
Strangers to Family: Diaspora and 1 Peter’s Invention of God’s Household
– Baylor University Press
2001 IRT Cohort
Daniel Peña, IRT ’01
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown
BANG
– Arte Publico Press
2000 IRT Cohort
Reginald Jackson, IRT ’00
Assistant Professor of premodern Japanese literature and performance, University of Michigan
Textures of Mourning
– University of Michigan Press
Read the author’s commentary: jackson commentary_textures of mourning
1999 IRT Cohort
Alejandro Velasco, IRT ’99
IRT Advisory Board member; Associate Professor, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
– University of California Press
1995 IRT Cohort
Tiffany Gill, IRT ’95
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and history, University of Delaware
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry
-University of Illinois Press, 2010
To Turn the Whole World Over – Black Women and Internationalism
– University of Illinois Press
Article for the Washington Post entitled, How a black female fashion designer laid the groundwork for Ghana’s ‘Year of Return
