{"id":14,"date":"2018-08-21T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendor.hub.wp.nau.edu\/women-and-gender-studies\/faculty-news\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:45:47","slug":"faculty-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/faculty-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Faculty News<\/h1>\n<h2>Sanjam Ahluwalia, Ph.D., Professor, History &amp; Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Awarded the President&#8217;s Distinguished Teaching Fellow for 2017-2020.<\/li>\n<li>Appointed Book Editor for the <em>Journal of Asian Studies<\/em>, the premier journal in the field.<\/li>\n<li>Received 2015 Provost Award for Faculty Excellence in Global Learning.<\/li>\n<li>Received NAU grant for course redesign for World History with colleague Ana Varela-Lago.<\/li>\n<li>Published &#8220;Rearranging Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy: \u00a0Sexology and the Global Governance of Sexuality from 20th \u00a0Century Bombay, 1930s-1950s&#8221; \u00a0in NAU Global_ Spring 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Sabbatical Presentation: &#8220;Tyranny of Orgasm.&#8221; Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies and Department of History; Northern Arizona University, April, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Ari Burford, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the &#8220;Faculty Diversity Award&#8221; from the LGBTQIA Commission.<\/li>\n<li>Presenting chapter two of manuscript from their memoir at &#8220;Writing by Writers&#8221; Workshop in Tomales Bay, CA and working directly with Dorothy Allison. October 21-25, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Attendee at &#8220;Black Life Matters&#8221; Conference in Tucson, AZ. January 17-19th, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Presented a paper titled\u00a0 &#8220;Epistemologies of Love and Genealogies of Violence in Queer Crip Time&#8221; at the National Women&#8217;s Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 13-16 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Attending the &#8220;Writing the Body II&#8221; workshop with Lidia Yuknavitch\u00a0September 4th-7th, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h2>Meredith Heller, Ph.D., Lecturer, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the University Award for Liberal Studies Excellence (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the Early Career Teaching Award in Social and Behavioral Sciences (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Book: <a href=\"https:\/\/iupress.org\/9780253045669\/queering-drag\/\"><em>Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published by Indiana University Press in 2020.\u00a0Named as one of NBC News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/10-lgbtq-books-watch-out-2020-n1117856\">\u201c10 LGBTQ books to watch out for in 2020\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Published the article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10350330.2018.1547490?journalCode=csos20\">\u201cRuPaul Realness: the Neoliberal Resignification of Ballroom Discourse.\u201d<\/a> <em>Social Semiotics <\/em>(2018): 1-15.<\/li>\n<li>Presented a paper titled \u201cCamp OUTdoors: Utopian Space Creation and Revolutionary Vision of LGBTQ Youth Summer Camps\u201d at the National Women\u2019s Studies Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, November 8-11, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Guest Commentator, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/airtalk\/2015\/02\/19\/41630\/drag-queen-asks-is-drag-degrading-to-women\/\">Drag Queen Asks: Is Drag Degrading to Women?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<em>AirTalk<\/em>, National Public Radio Affiliate KPCC, Los Angeles, CA, February 18, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Frances Riemer, Ph.D., Professor, Educational Foundations and Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies Associate Faculty<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Published the article &#8220;<a title=\"Wrapped in the Flag: Liberal Discourse, Mexican American Studies, and Guns on Campus\" href=\"https:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/183886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wrapped in the Flag: Liberal Discourse, Mexican American Studies, and Guns on Campus<\/a>,&#8221; <u>Critical Education,<\/u> 5(8). 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