Grzanka published op-ed on Amy Coney Barrett in The Washington Post
Read MoreSchuch, Rosecrance, and Grzanka win grant to fund deep values canvassing project /
SART member Elena Schuch and Pamela Rosecrance, doctoral student in counseling psychology at UT, have won a grant to support their work on sex education advocacy in East Tennessee. The grant, which is funded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, will pay door-to-door canvassers who will engage in “deep values canvassing.” This innovative approach to voter engagement has been shown to durably change attitudes over time by facilitating dialogue around important social issues, such as transphobia. Rosecrance and Schuch are partnering with Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood to implement deep values canvassing about comprehensive sex education in public schools. Their work will take place ins spring 2020 with Grzanka supervising the project; this project grew out of Elena and Pamela’s work in the Social Justice Practicum course at UT, which is the signature class of the scientist-practitioner-advocate training model at UT’s Counseling Psychology Program.
Congratulations, Elena and Pam!
Spengler wins APA dissertation research grant /
Elliot Spengler has been awarded a 2019 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award from the APA Science Directorate. This nationally competitive award is given annually to provide support to approximately 40 dissertations projects that represent important scientific work by outstanding, science-oriented graduate students. The $1,000 prize will support his dissertation research to develop a model of sexual minority mental health care engagement (i.e., help seeking) that accounts for individual, community, and structural opportunities and barriers to mental health care. This work was also recently honored with a Student/Faculty Research Award grant from The Graduate School at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Congratulations, Elliot!
Fles and Grzanka awarded grant to study bias in reactions to protest /
Fles and Grzanka awarded SPSSI grant to support their research on bias toward protestors.
Read MoreGrzanka's new book reviewed in Hypatia: "A significant intellectual contribution" /
The first edition of Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers (Westview Press, 2014) was recently reviewed in Hypatia, the leading journal of feminist philosophy, as part of a review essay. Alongside their assessment of Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge’s co-authored book Intersectionality (2016), reviewers Carly Thomsen and Jessyka Finley wrote:
“The range of both the topics addressed and the (inter)disciplinary institutional locations of contributing scholars speaks to the capaciousness of intersectionality (as theory, method, practice)—that is, its usefulness for addressing a range of issues across academic fields….Grzanka’s superb editing and translating of complicated theoretical ideas into a digestible format is a significant intellectual contribution, one that will be particularly useful for introductory courses on difference, marginalization, and oppression.”
Read the full review (open access): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hypa.12450
Grzanka to speak at book event February 28 in Downtown Knoxville /
Grzanka to speak at book event on Feb 28 in Knoxville
Read MoreIntersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers to be released February 2, 2019 /
Routledge will publish the second edition of SART Director Patrick Grzanka’s book, which charts the past, present, and future of intersectionality studies. Pre-order your copy directly from Routledge.
“Patrick Grzanka’s Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers is a breathtakingly interdisciplinary engagement with intersectionality’s intellectual, political, and institutional itineraries. It does justice to intersectionality’s multiple lives in Left politics, in the contemporary US university, in black feminist and women of color feminist theories, and it captures the term’s histories, critical aspirations, and political desires, always with an attention to intersectionality’s complexities. This is a book that does justice to the complex life of intersectionality, and that treats the term’s foundational texts and contemporary debates with the deepest forms of care and generosity.”
Book cover.