Sherry S. Yu:
Sherry S. Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and a member of the School of Media and Communication’s doctoral program at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research explores cultural diversity and media in relation to cultural literacy, civic engagement, and intercultural dialogue in a multicultural society, with a specific focus on ethnic media, multiculturalism, and transnational migration.
Eli Goldblatt:
Eli Goldblatt is a professor of English at Temple University. After earning his B.A. at Cornell University, he attended a year of medical school, traveled in Mexico and Central America, and taught high school for 6 years in Philadelphia. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. Since moving to Temple from Villanova University in 1996, he served as University Writing Director, co-director of the Writing Center, and Director of First Year Writing until leaving administrative work in 2012. He is the director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community literacy in North Philadelphia. Through New City Writing, Temple students and faculty have participated in many projects since 1997 in the Latino and African American communities near the university. His most active current involvement is with Tree House Books, an after school literacy program near the Temple campus, and Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an investigative publication dedicated to education in the city. He was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the national Conference on Community Writing in 2015.
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Rickie Sanders:
Rickie Sanders is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Her interests are representations of the city, photography, and race/class/gender. She is currently working on a collaborative project, “Mapping Perceptions of Violence/Safety in the Lives of African American Women in Norristown, PA.” She was named a Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (2006) and served as Director of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium. She was recently honored by the Association of American Geographers with an award for Enhancing Diversity in the field; prior to that she was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award. She has published in numerous journals (Antipode, Revista Artemis XI, The Professional Geographer, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography) and has had two exhibitions of her photos at Temple University.
Selected Publications