Please help us congratulate the 2023 Southern Humanities Conference Award Winners. 

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2023 Southern Humanities Conference Award Winners

 

The winner of the Bennie D Ussery Memorial Graduate Student Award is Irene Newman.  The award is given to the best proposed paper from a graduate student attending the conference.  Irene will be presenting a paper entitled “The Lone Wolf: A Tactic Turned Myth” which explores the history of organizing tactics and mythmaking in white power groups in the United States since the 1980s.  Irene is a PhD candidate in American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies white power violence in the late twentieth century, and is an associate editor of Southern Cultures and a field scholar for the Southern Oral History Program.

 

The winners of the Kathryn M. Reynolds Welcome Award are Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, BSN RN and Jen Ham.  They will be presenting a paper entitled “The Myth of Independence: Health as Commodity Fetish.”  The award is given to a first- or second-time presenter at the conference with the best proposed paper. 

 

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, BSN RN is an Arab, disabled, queer fourth year Nursing PhD Candidate with interdisciplinary focuses in Disability Studies and Critical Pedagogy at University of Illinois-Chicago. Sabrina researches the use of spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Sabrina's health humanities work began at The Ohio State University where she double majored in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies and Nursing. Sabrina hopes to create transformative change within healthcare education praxis and eventually hopes to organize a community-engaged healthcare education center in a university that harnesses applied public humanities to promote radical liberation, humanization, and belongingness for patients, healthcare students, and practitioners.

 

Jen Ham is a third year PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California Santa Cruz. Theorizing from her embedded and embodied position as a blind woman of color in a constant state of co-constitution with her canine guide and the multiplicity of environments they traverse, Jen’s work explores the ways in which accessibility emerges with/in entangled worlds. While earning her masters in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati in 2018-20, Jen’s studies took her to Denmark where she began to develop the concept of accessibility as a relational living system which organically forms throughout the structures of cohousing communities; this then became her port of departure for her current research interests at the juncture of disability studies and posthumanism. 

 

Congratulations to Our Winners!