Tending Two Gardens: Cultivating Career and Family

Deleasa Randall-Griffiths, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, attended the Central States Communication Association Conference in Minneapolis April 2-5. She presented a paper titled “Tending Two Gardens: Cultivating Career and Family” as part of the panel on “Women and Work: Heightening Women’s Experience of negotiating Multiple identities” sponsored by the Women’s Caucus. She also presented “Home Sweet Academic Home: Witnessing Change over the Decades” as part of the panel “’Home’ on the Academic Range: What Factors Elevate the Chances of an Institutional ‘Fit’?” sponsored by the CSCA First Vice-President. Finally, Dr. Randall-Griffiths presented an activity on self-concept and identity titled “I am….” as part of a Great Ideas for Teaching session sponsored by the G.I.F.T Interest Group.

The Role of the Lived Body in Social Activism

Dr. Kimberly Field-Springer, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, and her colleague, Dr. Anna Wiederhold, recently published an article in The Journal of Gender Studies, titled: "Embodying imperfect unity: womanhood and synchronicity in antiwar protest." 

The authors explore "the power and constraints of gendered bodies in political activism through a rhetorical analysis of the Lysistrata Project, a global theatrical act of dissent against preemptive war in Iraq."

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