2020 News
12/10/20
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies Program Director, recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post. "The long history of Black women organizing in Georgia might decide Senate control" chronicles the ways in which Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century. Phillips-Cunningham's work is supported by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership and the OpEd Project's Public Voices of the South fellowship program.
12/8/20
"," the critically acclaimed collection of Zora Neale Hurston works posthumously gathered, edited and published by 探花楼 ESFL professor and chair Genevieve West, PhD, has been selected for The Guardian's best books of 2020 list. Naoise Dolan, author of "Exciting Times," chose the book for its "fluid, polymathic voice."
Music therapy graduate helps patients heal with hope and harmony
12/7/20
Kathleen Montes began her career as a music teacher, but when her father passed away from cancer, she realized music therapy was her true calling. While pursuing her Master of Music Therapy degree at 探花楼, Kathleen advocated for her own clinical training path in hospice care.
Paranormal frequencies: 探花楼 graduate investigates spooky sounds in media
12/7/20
By merging her passion for music, writing, rhetoric and film, 探花楼 graduate student Regan Dianne Campbell developed an extremely unique area of research: Sonic rhetoric and the use of sounds and music in horror movies and TV shows.
12/3/20
DiAnna Hynds, PhD, was recently asked to serve as a senior editor on the editorial board for the journal "American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) Neuro." She will primarily work with neurotrauma and neurodegeneration manuscripts for the highly-ranked, open-access journal.
Hynds also serves as a professor in the 探花楼 Department of Biology, an affiliate professor for the 探花楼 Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice, and as 探花楼 Faculty Senate speaker.