\u201cI wanted to show students that questions about diversity belonged to the past as well as the present,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mahan Ellison, an associate professor of Spanish, discussed a generation of young authors in Equatorial Guinea, the only sub-Saharan African nation where Spanish is an official language. Ellison\u2019s essay \u201cSex, Identity and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora\u201d appeared in \u201cTwenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Scholarly and creative achievements were on display during the Faculty Scholarship Reception at the James B. Duke Library on Feb. 10.<\/p><\/div>\n Although the work of writers like O\u2019s\u00edrima Mota Ripeu, Guillermina Mekuy and Trifonia Melibea Obono are sometimes dismissed for their direct approaches to sex, Ellison explained in his speed talk, \u201cthey indicate that Equatorial Guinea\u2019s place in Spanish literature will only grow in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Bronwen Forbay<\/a>, a visiting associate professor of voice originally from Durban, South Africa, co-authored \u201cAn Introduction to Afrikaans Art Song Literature: Origins and Repertoire,\u201d which appeared in the Journal of Singing in 2022. Forbay and her co-author, Christian Bester, will present a lecture recital on March 20.<\/p>\n The little-known genre reflects her homeland\u2019s philosophy of \u201cubuntu, umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu,\u201d said Forbay \u2013 a Zulu phrase meaning \u201cA person is a person by, with and through other people.\u201d<\/p>\n James Guth, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, published \u201cNew Frontiers of Religious Freedom? LGBTQ Rights Versus Religious Conscience\u201d last year in the journal Religion, State and Society<\/a>. The Masterpiece Cakeshop controversy and other recent cases have been framed as conflicts pitting antidiscrimination policies against the free exercise of religion, Guth explained. His essay asked, \u201cWhat do Americans think about this issue, and what factors influence their decisions?\u201d<\/p>\n Using data from three major national academic studies, Guth found that the opinions fell along culture war lines, \u201ccontributing one more brick in the walls of ideological and partisan polarization.\u201d<\/p>\n Alison Roark, an associate professor of biology, discussed her work as program director for a 15-school cohort that received a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to create a more inclusive environment for their students pursuing STEM fields<\/a>. Roark discussed the leadership team\u2019s efforts in the areas of faculty development, student agency and engagement, and curricular change.<\/p>\n Judith Williams, an assistant professor of anthropology, examined white racial identity in the multicultural metropolis of Miami. Her case study focused on Geena, a white lesbian with cerebral palsy who moved to Miami from rural Virginia. Geena experienced ridicule from her Spanish-speaking coworkers because she was married to a transgender woman, and she heard troubling comments from her white Latina bosses about her disability.<\/p>\n \u201cGeena said she felt as if she was living in a different country,\u201d said Williams, whose essay \u201cCooking Up Hope: Minoritized White Women and Their Hope for Equality in Miami\u2019s Latinx Dominated Restaurant Industry\u201d appeared last year in the Journal for the Anthropology of North America<\/a>. \u201cGeena now had to navigate a new experience of whiteness that didn\u2019t have the same amount of clout within Miami\u2019s white Latinx hegemony.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty members delivered four-minute speed talks describing their work during the annual Faculty Scholarship Reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":23178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,19,31,16,39,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-biology","category-english","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-music","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33771,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23177\/revisions\/33771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Scholarly](\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/02\/02102023_FacultyScholarshipReception_52.jpg\")