TCCS NEWSLETTER

Unfortunately, there were setbacks connected to the hiring of our shared faculty position and administrativestaff. After a very deliberative process in which many of you participated, we were unable to reach a finalagreement with the potential candidates for the shared TCCS/WGSS faculty position. We were also unable tohire someone for the administrative assistant position that will be shared with the Human Services M.S.program. However, our search committee for the administrative assistant position is reviewing new applicantsand I am confident we will end the summer with a new colleague in this position. After the finalization of thestate and university budget, we will have a better idea as to when we can re-launch the faculty search.

Hello TCCS community members: I have good news to share as we transition from Spring to Summer 2019.First, we are pleased to add 12 new alumni from our MS program inTCCS this year (10 graduated in May, 2 in August). We celebrate thehard work of these students and faculty and look forward to ongoingengagement with alumni and new students as our community expands.

Cedric Woods, Ph.D.Director, Transnational Cultural and Community Studies

Finally, we will have 7 new students joining our program from diverse backgrounds and research interests I lookforward to the Fall welcome/orientation activities when everyone meet. As always, our faculty and students havebeen quite busy. Please review their publications, awards and transitions below. Sincerely,

"Sentirnos Tejido: BuildingTransnational Queer Latinx

Networks Through Art"

"The Puerto RicanExperience in Higher

Education: Dispelling theShroud of Academic

Failure"

Juan Pablo Blanco"Ally or Accomplice?

Understanding OutsiderInvolvement in the U.S.

Immigrant RightsStruggle"

Jimena Cascante-Matamoros

Grace Furtado

Spring 2019 Capstone

Projects

"Creative CulturalExpressions of Three

Generations of CambodianMen in the Diaspora"

"Reaching for Policy Change: AProposal to Expose and

Eliminate WorkforceDevelopment Barriers in the

Field of Cosmetology AffectingLow-Income Brazilian

Communities in Massachusetts"

Myles Green

"Creative Writing andSocial Justice Educationat UMass Boston's OLLI"

Penhsamnang Kan

Fernanda C. Macedo

"Voices on the RisingBrume: Oral Hearthstoriesof Reclaiming the Witch"

"Amplifying andAddressing the Needs of

LGBTQ Students of Color"

Jeannette Mejia"The Miseducation [and Re-

Educacion] of Dominicans ofAfrican Descent: HowInternalized Anti-BlackSentiments and Black

Consciousness Impact Anti-Haitianismo and Personal

Wellness for Dominicans in theDiaspora"

Alexandra J. Richmond

Zainab Salejwala

"Ayiti Kiskeya/QuisqueyaBohio: Land Divided by

Colonial Wounds.Autoethnography to Heal

and Celebrate Similarities"

"(Re)Imagining Home: HowQueer and Trans Asian

American Poets Use SocialMedia for Community

Building"

Taina S. Teravainen"The Promise of a

Singaporean Future:Nation-Building and theExploitation of Migrant

Domestic Workers"

Mirlande Thermidor

Izabela "Izzie" Villanueva

to our third cohort of students on their

capstone completion

and graduation from the

Transnational, Cultural and Community

Studies program!

Allie Richmond, Mirlande Thermidor,

Juan Pablo Blanco, Penhsamnang Kan, Izzie Villanueva,

Grace Furtado, Jimena Cascante-Matamoros, Myles Green,

Fernanda Macedo, Jeannette Mejia, Taina Teravainen,

Zainab Salejwala

CONGRATULATIONS!

Mayorga-Gallo, Sarah. 2019. "The white-centering logic of diversity ideology.” American BehavioralScientist, in press. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219842619 Aptekar, Sofya. 2019. "The Unbearable Lightness of the Cosmopolitan Canopy: Accomplishment ofDiversity at an Urban Farmers Market." City & Community. 10.1111/cico.12371 Woods, Cedric, with Rita Kiki Edozie, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, UMBBarbara Lewis, William Monroe Trotter Institute for African American Culture and History, UMB ShaunaLo, Institute for Asian American Studies, UMB Trevor Mattos, Boston Indicators Mark Melnik, Economicand Public Policy Research, UMass Donahue Institute Lorna Rivera, Mauricio Gastón Institute forLatino Community Development & Public Policy, UMB Luc Schuster, Boston Indicators Paul Watanabe,Institute for Asian American Studies, UMB Gail Waterhouse, Economic and Public Policy Research,UMass Donahue Institute, 2019. “Changing Faces of Greater Boston: A Report From Boston Indicators,The Boston Foundation, UMASS BOSTON, and the UMASS DONAHUE INSTITUTE.”

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

STUDENT PUBLICATIONSTorres, Ashley. UMass Boston Art Magazine and Writ Large Magazine. Aptekar, Sofya; Blanco, Juan Pablo; with editorial assistance from Katsyris Rivera-Kientz 2019."Worcester Construction Workforce Disparity Study". A copy of the report can be found here.

HONORS & GRANTSKaren Suyemoto - Distinguished Teaching Award, Fullbright Award Sofya Aptekar - Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Fellow in New York City Ashley Torres - Beacon Student Success Fellowship, Summer 2019 Jimena Cascante Matamoros - Received a grant from the Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres(FCAM) for her organization Voces Fierasto continue their work with the online magazine La Rebelde,which was part of her capstone project, and will continue to work in regional collaboration among LBTQartists in Central America. Cedric Woods - Received 1.3 million OIE professional development grant with Anne Douglass to recruitand train Native teachers in ECE. Also received a 1.1 million dollar contract with MA BSAS to runprevention activities in MA Native communities.

Publications & Honors from our

TCCS Community

Sofya Aptekar Invited Panelist, Naturalization: Right, Responsibility, Obligation Panel. Global Migration Conference.Boston College. “Framing the immigrant in labor unions and the US military.” Social Science Research Council, Anxietiesof Democracy. Immigration: The Politics of Inclusion and the Politics of Threat Workshop.New York City.With Shannon Gleeson. “Between diversity asset and security threat: Foreign nationals in the US military.” Paper presentation atEastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston Juan Pablo Blanco "Ally or Accomplice? Understanding Outsider Involvement in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Struggle". Paperpresentation at Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston

PRESENTATIONS

NEWS

Sofya Aptekar will be on leave from UMass Boston for the 2019-2020 academic year due to herRussell Sage Visiting Fellow award. Loan Dao will be leaving UMass Boston as of this summer to take a position at a college in California

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