Author: Matt Brim

Below are our FFPP 2023 Fellows listed by Mentor group:

Faculty Mentor: Anahi Viladrich, Queens College

• Jinwon Kim, City Tech, “New Trends, Old Conflicts: New Black-Korean Relations in an Era of Global Racism and Global Media”
• Keosha Bond, City College, “Using Photovoice to Examine the Sexual Socialization of Gender-Diverse Youth for HIV Prevention”
• Barbara Flores-Caballero, Bronx Community College, “Left Behind—Education Decline in Puerto Rico: K-12 Principals Reflect on the Aftermath of the Pandemic in the Context of Hurricane Maria”
• Kate Cauley, John Jay College, “Reading through Redemption: Comparing Information Access in Brazilian and American Correctional Facilities”
• Laura Graham Holmes, Hunter College, “Health Equity Promotion for Sexual and Gender Minorities on the Autism Spectrum”
• Deborah Greenblatt, Medgar Evers College, “An Assessment of Liberatory Practices in College-level Online Classes”

Faculty Mentor: Ava Chin, College of Staten Island

• Jade Charon Robertson, Medgar Evers College, “Gold: You’re a Star”
• Eve Eure, Lehman College, “Testimonies of Intergenerational Kinship”
• Mudiwa Pettus, Medgar Evers College, “Against Compromise: Black Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington”
• Lissette Acosta, Borough of Manhattan Community College, “Women in Colonial Santo Domingo: Disobedience, Bravery, and Power”
• Elizabeth Alsop, School of Professional Studies, “An Unsentimental Education: The Films of Elaine May”
• Agustin McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, “Transcestors – A Feature Documentary”

Faculty Mentor: Jonathan W. Gray, John Jay College

• Vivian Y. Lim, Guttman Community College, “Integrating Quantitative Approaches to Teach about Social Justice”
• Augustus Durham, Lehman College, “Why Roberta Flack Matters – First Take”
• Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, Baruch College, “Latinx Graphic Counter Histories: Knowledge, Memory, and Representation in Latinx Graphic Memoirs and Comic Biographies”
• Sandy Plácido, Queens College, “Moving Forward the Publication of the Monograph, A Decolonial Science: Dr. Ana Livia Cordero and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle”
• Laura Rifkin, Brooklyn College, “Reputable Technocultures and Protecting Vulnerable Populations”
• Daniel Libertz, Baruch College, “Tensions of Numbers and Words in Quantitative Writing for Social Justice”

Faculty Mentor: Katherine K. Chen, City College

• Shilpa Viswanath, John Jay College, “Bureau Men and Settlement Women: A Feminist Critique of Homelessness and the Housing Bureaucracy”
• Karen G. Williams, Guttman Community College, “Science of Incarceration: Care, Coercion, and Consent”
• Robert P. Robinson, John Jay College, “Stealin’ the Meetin’: Black Education History & The Black Panthers’ Oakland Community School”
• Meghan Ference, Brooklyn College, “Roundabouts: Matatu Transportation as a Feminist Public in Nairobi, Kenya”
• Sarah Saddler, Baruch College, “Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theater in Global India”
• Yaari Felber-Seligman, City College, “Fashioning Inland Economies: Trade and Culture in Central East Africa”

Faculty Mentor: Lina Newton, Hunter College

• Helen Chang, Hostos Community College, “Election Administration and Electoral Reform in New York City”
• Do Jun Lee, Queens College, “From Threat to Essentially Sacrificial: NYC Food Delivery Workers in COVID-19”
• Raul Pathak, Baruch College, “Fiscal Resilience and Economic Recovery in New York Municipalities: An Examination of Local Government Finances After the Pandemic”
• Elizabeth Edenberg, Baruch College, “Polarization and Shared Values”
• Joan Robinson, City College, “The Home Pregnancy Test”
• Bryan S. Weber, College of Staten Island, “The Effects of Urban Transportation on Crime and Safety”

Faculty Mentor: Siraj Ahmed, Lehman College

• Krystyna Michael, Hostos Community College, “The Intimacy of Dissent”
• Mira Zaman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, “The Rake Seduced: The Devil and the Hidden Seduction Narrative in Richardson’s Clarissa”
• Kedon Willis, City College, “No Nation is Postcolonial: The State of Abjection in the Writings of Queer Caribbean Authors”
• Elizabeth Porter, Hostos Community College, “Decentering the Novel Heroine: Women’s Spatial and Narrative Trajectories in Defoe’s Roxana (1724)”
• Rosemary Twomey, Queens College, “Final Ends in Aristotle’s Psychology”
• Mark Zelcer, Queensborough Community, “Socrates at War”

Faculty Mentor: Ted N. Ingram, Bronx Community College

• Misun Dokko, LaGuardia Community College, “Supporting Diverse First-Year Composition Students at a Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institution in New York City”
• Brittany Fox-Williams, Lehman College, “Getting to Trust: Race, Relationships, and Achievement in Urban Schools”
• Vincent Jones, York College, “Health Education and Efficacy to Respond to Violence and other Negative Experiences on Mobile Dating Apps among People of Color and Sexual Minorities”
• Delia Hernandez, Kingsborough Community College, “Teaching and Learning Through Critical Reflection: A Process of Engagement and Induction for Community College Preservice Teachers”
• Gabriel Camacho, John Jay College, “The Effect of Wearing College Apparel on Black Men’s Perceived Criminality and Perceived Risk of Being Racially Profiled by Police”
• Casey LaDuke, John Jay College, “Supporting Brain Health in Black Men Impacted by the Criminal Legal System”

Faculty Mentor: William H. Carr, Medgar Evers College

• Jun Li, Queens College, “Sequence-aware Coding for Large-scale Distributed Matrix Multiplication”
• Joshua Tan, LaGuardia Community College, “Solving the Mysteries of Gamma-Ray Emitting Astrophysical Sources with Student Co-Researchers”
• Bianca Sosnovski, Queensborough Community College, “Applications of Non-Abelian Groups to Hashing”
• Jane Alexander, College of Staten Island, “Geochemical Evidence for the Origin and Remobilization of Triassic Age Fluvial Sediments of the Newark Basin, NJ”
• Matthew Junge, Baruch College, “Mathematical Perspectives in Prison”
• Nicholas Vlamis, Queens College, “The Dehn–Nielsen Theorem for Non-compact Surfaces”