Matt Brim – Page 2 – Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP)

FFPP Welcomes Spring 2021 Fellows!

December 6, 2020Matt Brim

The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the spring 2021 Fellows! We look forward to another productive year of writing, peer review, and professional development at CUNY!

FACULTY MENTOR	FELLOWS	CAMPUS	DEPARTMENT

Michael B. Gillespie, City College	Jason Schafer	LaGuardia Community College	Humanities
	Carla Santamaría	Brooklyn College	Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
	Cliff Mak	Queens College	English
	Namhee Han	Queens College	Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages & Cultures
	Patricia A. Milanes	York College	English

Ted Ingram, Bronx Community College	Jennette Allen-McCombs	York College	Social Work
	Paul Archibald	College of Staten Island	Social Work
	Sarah Baquet	Brooklyn College	School Psychology, Counseling, & Leadership
	Nelson Santana	Bronx Community College	Library Learning Services
	Natasha Nurse-Clarke	Lehman College	Nursing

William Carr, Medgar Evers College	Zhu Zhou	York College	Chemistry
	Zheng Peng	City College	Computer Science
	Akm Rahman	City Tech	Mechanical Engineering Tech
	Harsha Rajapakse	Medgar Evers College	Chemistry & Environmental Science
	Maral Tajerian	Queens College	Biology

Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay College	Sebastian Alvarado	Queens College	Biology
	Cara Murray	Queensborough Community College	English
	Sophia Hsu	Lehman College	English
	Amin Erfani	Lehman College	Languages & Literatures
	Reynado Ortiz-Minaya	Brooklyn College	Puerto Rican & Latino Studies

Anahi Viladrich, Queens College	Pei Cheng	Brooklyn College	School Psychology, Counseling, & Leadership
	Yung-Chen Chiu	Hunter College	Educational Foundations & Counseling Programs
	Jan Oosting Kaminsky	School of Professional Studies	Nursing
	Linda Ann Paradiso	School of Professional Studies	Nursing
	Sasha Rudenstine	City College	Psychology

Katherine K. Chen, City College	Rhea Rahman	Brooklyn College	Anthropology
	Phillip Staniczenko	Brooklyn College	Biology
	Natalie Bump Vena	Queens College	Urban Studies
	Grace Pai	Guttman Community College	Interdisciplinary Studies
	John Lauermann	Medgar Evers College	Social & Behavioral Sciences

Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College	Melissa Castillo Planas	Lehman College	English
	Shinjoung Yeo	Queens College	Media Studies
	Kimberley McKinson	John Jay College	Anthropology
	Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn	Queensborough Community College	Foreign Languages
	Ryan Mann-Hamilton	LaGuardia Community College	Social Science

Bridgett Davis, Baruch College	Sarada Rauch	LaGuardia Community College	Humanities
	Larry Tung	York College	Performing & Fine Arts
	James Harris	Bronx Community College	English
	Noelia Diaz	Queensborough Community College	English
	Dora Silva Santana	John Jay College	Gender Studies

Lina Newton, Hunter College	Donna Lee Granville	Brooklyn College	Sociology
	Shruti Sharma	Borough of Manhattan Community College	Social Sciences, Human Services, & Criminal Justice
	Rong Zhao	Hunter College	Social Work
	Harini Mittal	Bronx Community College	Business & Information Systems
	Rubia Valente	Baruch College	Public & International Affairs

Award Pre-Proposal Support from the Research Foundation CUNY

May 7, 2020Matt Brim

The Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support (APPS) at the Research Foundation CUNY has been working hard to keep us connected to opportunities for funding in the Arts and Humanities as well as STEM fields. The resources below will help you begin planning to apply for future grants and fellowships. Please take a look!

Pathways to Funding for Arts and Humanities Projects (PowerPoint) with accompanying Speaking Notes
A two-page Guide to Local Arts and Humanities Funders (look here for support beyond the usual suspects!)
APPS has filmed several of its workshops for future faculty development needs. We encourage the FFPP cohort to check out some of these prior talks to familiarize themselves with research development themes of interest. See the RF YouTube channel here.
COVID-19 funding advisories for both STEM/health faculty and arts and culture faculty. The STEM/health document is focused on urgent research projects, while the arts and culture document is focused on relief grants for those with loss of gig income and medical bills.
STEM/Health Funding (PowerPoint)

Helpful Resources

April 8, 2020Matt Brim

Dear Fellows,

At times like this it helps to have good information at hand, so we want to share several CUNY-wide resources. The “CUNY Continuity” page is a place to start:

https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-continuity/cuny-continuity-for-students/

From here you can access University-wide resources as well as each CUNY college’s “coronavirus page” for information specific to the individual campuses.

Because this week is likely an especially difficult one for the CUNY community and for New York City, we also want to mention that CUNY has resources focused on health and wellness, including counseling and mental health services, as well as child care and food security on our campuses. Links to campus counseling centers can be found here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/counseling/campus-centers/

More general information about health services at CUNY are here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/health-services/

At some CUNY colleges, individual departments have compiled resource lists. An example of a departmental resource list is the following from Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College:

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blackandlatinostudies/?page_id=9

Many campus webpages also point CUNY community members to health and wellness resources outside the CUNY system, including NYC Well Counseling Services:

https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en/

As ever, and on behalf of our Mentors, we want you to know how thankful we are to have you as colleagues and how deeply we value your participation in the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.

All our best,

Shelly and Matt

Research Foundation Guidance + Work-Life Balance for Faculty of Color

March 23, 2020Matt Brim

Hello Fellows,

We are truly heartened to hear that you have been relying on the structure provided by your writing groups and your Mentors to stay focused and find professional support in the face of adversity. The underlying strengths of the FFPP are becoming more vivid than ever: the capacity to connect, draw on professional resources, build layered support systems, and persevere together.

We have several timely informational items to share with you.

The CUNY Research Foundation has just released the following for PIs and grant workers: https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/about/announcements/coronavirus-guidance/ and specifically https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/learning-resources/covid-19-guidance/faqs-for-rf-field-staff-and-principal-investigators/ This guidance will be updated periodically, so please check back at the RF site.
The current moment only highlights something the FFPP has long focused on: the question of how faculty of color can achieve a good work-life balance in academe. Dwayne A. Mack, professor of history and Carter G. Woodson Chair of African American History at Berea College, offers his perspective here.

Finally, our STEM Mentor, William Carr, recently gave a talk about coronavirus (COVID-19). Thank you to William for sharing your expertise with us!

We look forward to communicating with you regularly–even as we want to respect the fact that we’ve all been a bit overwhelmed with email lately! The FFPP Commons will be, we hope, a valued site of connection, resource-sharing, and collegiality as we move ahead.

Very best wishes to all,

Matt and Shelly

FFPP Welcomes Spring 2020 Fellows!

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019Matt Brim

The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the spring 2020 Fellows! This year FFPP expands to 10 writing groups across the most diverse range of disciplines and specialties in our history, including STEM fields and Rhetoric & Composition. We look forward to another productive year of writing, peer review, and professional development at CUNY!

Faculty Mentor	Faculty Name	Campus	Department
Kelly Baker Josephs, York	Stuart Davis	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Sean Gerrity	Hostos	English
	Donna Hill	Medgar	English
	Minna Logemann	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Cristina Migliaccio	Medgar	English
	Chun-Yi Peng	BMCC	Modern Languages

Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn	Christine Farias	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Victoria Muñoz	Hostos	English
	Raquel Otheguy	Bronx CC	History
	Erica Richardson	Baruch	English
	Marisa Solomon	Baruch	Sociology & Anthropology
	Marta-Laura Suska	John Jay	Anthropology

Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay	Andy Connolly	Hostos	English
	Adrian Izquierdo	Baruch	English
	Yasha Klots	Hunter	Classical & Oriental Studies
	Laurie Lomask	BMCC	Modern Languages
	Schneur Newfield	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Rafael Walker	Baruch	English

Anahí Viladrich, Queens	Tanzina Ahmed	KBCC	Behavioral Sciences & Human Services
	Dwayne Baker	Queens	Urban Studies
	Brenda Hernandez Acevedo	Lehman	Nursing
	Fabienne Snowden	Medgar	Social Work
	Jessica Van Parys	Hunter	Economics
	Myriam Villalobos Solís	Baruch	Psychology

Mark McBeth, John Jay	Sara Alvarez	Queens	English
	Carrie Hall	NYCCTech	English
	Yana Kuchirko	Brooklyn	Psychology
	Marcela Oss Parra	Queens	Elementary & Early Childhood Education
	Meghmala Tarafdar	QBCC	English
	Missy Watson	CCNY	English

Ted Ingram, Bronx CC	Asrat Amnie	Hostos	Health Education
	Stacey Cooper	Hostos	Behavioral & Social Sciences
	Jacob Eubank	Lehman	Health Sciences
	Nicole Kras	Guttman	n/a
	Anya Spector	Guttman	n/a
	Anuradha Srivastava	QBCC	Biological Sciences & Geology

Ava Chin, CSI	Jonah Brucker-Cohen	Lehman	Journalism & Media Studies
	Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich	Queens	Media Studies
	Donika Kelly	Baruch	English
	George Larkins	NYCCTech	Communication Design
	Brenda Vollman	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Natasha Yannacañedo	Hostos	Humanities

Katherine Chen, City College	Marcello Di Bello	Lehman	Philosophy
	Charles Gomez	Queens	Sociology
	Naja Berg Hougaard	QBCC	Social Sciences
	Andrew Lambert	CSI	Philosophy
	Elizabeth Minei	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Maite Sánchez	Hunter	Curriculum & Teaching

William Carr, Medgar Evers	Tatiana Emmanouil	Baruch	Psychology
	Karen Flórez	SPH	Environmental, Occupational & Geospatial Sciences
	Mabel Korie	Medgar	Nursing
	Sandra Maldonado	Lehman	Nursing
	Anna Manukyan	Hostos	Natural Science
	Mara Schvarzstein	Brooklyn	Biology

Lina Newton, Hunter	Marcus Johnson	Baruch	Political Science
	Jennifer Laird	Lehman	Sociology
	Ke Li	John Jay	Political Science
	Min Liu	Bronx CC	Social Sciences
	James Rodriguez	Guttman	n/a
	Liza Steele	John Jay	Sociology

FFPP Mentor Spotlight: Anahi Viladrich featured in LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment exhibition

October 21, 2019Matt Brim

Kudos to FFPP Mentor Anahi Viladrich, who will be featured at an upcoming exhibition sponsored by LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment, in collaboration with the Queens Historical Society. Ani has very graciously used this occasion to highlight the good work of FFPP, as the following “In Her Own Words” paragraph beautiful demonstrates. Thank you so much for allowing FFPP to share in your well-deserved celebration, Ani!

The exhibit will be placed in the Marine Air Terminal rotunda (Terminal A), La Guardia Airport. Please note below the INVITATION to a reception hosted at the airport this coming Wednesday, October 23^rd, at 2 pm.

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J. Bret Maney translates Manhattan Tropics in new bilingual edition

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019Matt Brim

Congratulations to FFPP Alum Bret Maney (Lehman College) for the release of his translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics. Maney also edited this bilingual edition, published as Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan. The first novel of the Puerto Rican mass migration to New York City, and one of the early novels of Puerto Rican New York, Manhattan Tropics appears as part of the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Series” from Arte Público Press at the University of Houston.

Originally published in 1951 as Trópico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner’s use of code-switching, or “Spanglish,” reflects the characters’ bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel’s exploration of class, race and gender—while demonstrating the community’s resilience and cultural pride—ensures its relevance today.

Matt Brim coedits Imagining Queer Methods

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019Matt Brim

Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. The volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field by asking “How do we do queer theory?”

From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics.

Matt Brim is Associate Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. His books include James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (U. of Michigan Press, 2014) and the forthcoming Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke U. Press, 2020), which reorients the field of queer studies away from elite institutions of higher education and toward working class schools, students, theories, and pedagogies. With Dr. Shelly Eversley, he is Academic Director of the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.

(Getting the most out of) Reading a scientific paper

May 9, 2019Matt Brim

Devavani Chatterjea (PhD, MPH), Professor of Biology at Macalester College, has kindly shared her essay on reading primary literature in the scientific community. Thank you to Dr. Chatterjea!

Chatterjea_ReadingGuide_STEM

Lara Saguisag wins Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award AND is nominated for Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Work

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019Matt Brim

Lara Saguisag (College of Staten Island), a 2014-15 FFPP Fellow, has won the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work by One or More Author for Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers UP 2018). Lara has also been nominated for the Eisner award for Best Scholarly Work for Incorrigibles and Innocents.

Incorrigibles and Innocents

Incorrigibles and Innocents examines the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.

Congratulations to Lara!

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Author: Matt Brim