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Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowships

In 2010, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, began a program to award summer fellowships to faculty in the humanities disciplines. The objective of these fellowships is to allow recipients to make significant progress on existing creative/research projects during the summer months. The most recent recipients are below:

Summer 2023

Alyssa Cole (Professor, African American Studies)

Movement Before the Movement: Black Women’s Defense of Medical Facilities in Kansas City

Movement Before the Movement: Black Women’s Defense of Medical Facilities in Kansas City is a history of Black women’s support of the medical profession in the West during the early twentieth century. While discussing medical institutions and history, the project focuses on women’s role in creating the micro-Black hospital movement and developing the Black medical profession. The work contributes to our understanding of the community’s role in maintaining public health.

Juliana Restrepo Sanin (Professor, Political Science)

Violence against Women in Politics in Latin America

With the global increase in the number of women in national parliaments, reports of violence against them have become more common. Violence against women in politics, as this problem is known, represents a threat to gender equality and democracy. This project investigates this problem in Latin America, where activists have demanded an end to this form of violence. The project relies on interviews with participants from across the region and archival documents. The findings demonstrate that democratic reforms adopted in Latin America have unintentionally facilitated attacks but have also given women important tools to protect their rights.

 
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