Member News and Accolades

ACCORD members’ research and service contributes to our philosophy, vision, and goal. We recognize the accomplishments of the following members-

 

• Accolade: Director of ACCORD, Karen M. Turner, received the Great Teacher Award, an annual accolade presented by Temple that “honors its faculty’s achievements in teaching, service, creativity, and research with the faculty awards: the highest honors given to teachers and scholars at the university. ” The awardees are nominated by current students, former students, and colleagues of the university. 

 

• Portrait Feature: ACCORD Steering Committee Member Latanya Jenkins was featured in the Huffington Post Arts and Culture article “Portraits of Librarians Celebrate America’s Bookish Unsung Heroes.”

 

• Presentation: Latanya Jenkins presented “A comparative Assessment of Peer Institutions’ Collections: Measuring Africology and African American Studies Collections”at the 9th International Conference on Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick, Ireland

 

• Presentations: ACCORD Steering Committee Member Marie Amey-Taylor provided diversity training for the Philadelphia Mummers prior to the January 2017 parade which received national recognition for its diversity and inclusion efforts.  She also provided day long leadership training  for the leadership of the Children’s Defense Fund in Knoxville, Tennessee at their national training site located on Alex Haley’s farm.  

 

• Creative Writing: ACCORD Affiliate member Srimati Mukherjee’s short story “Light Is Something which Is Golden in Color” and which appeared in Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories edited by Mohammad A. Quayum (Silverfish Books, Malaysia) was mentioned in a number of reviews of the anthology. 

 

• Book Chapter: Srimati Mukherjee’s previously published journal article “A Not So Banal Evil: Rokeya in Confrontation with Patriarchy,” on an early-twentieth century Bengali feminist woman writer and activist, was reprinted in A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, an anthology co-edited by Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan (Orient BlackSwan, India).

 

• Co-authored Chapter: ACCORD Steering Committee Members Donna Marie Peters, Sonja Peterson-Lewis, Rickie Sanders, Elizabeth L. Sweet, Karen M. Turner, and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon have published a chapter, “Treading Treacherous Waters: A Conversation with Women Faculty of Color on Teaching Race” in Leadership, Equity, and Social Justice in American Higher Education-A Reader edited by C.P. Gause (Peter Lang). For more information see the Peter Lang website here. 

 

• Symposium Presentation: Latanya Jenkins presented on what can be done to promote better student understanding of data sources and gaining access. Learn more here. 

 

• Journal Article: ACCORD Affiliate Member Eli Goldblatt has a new article out in College Composition and Communication called “Don’t Call It Expressivism: Legacies of a “Tacit Tradition.” Among other things, it argues that the influential book Digital Griots by Adam Banks is not only a study of African American contributions to the digital age but also a contribution to the history of a movement rooted in the 1960’s that embraces expression as primary in American public literacy.

 

• Book Publication: ACCORD Affiliate member Donnalyn Pompper has published a new book, Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict (Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric Series). Check it out here. 

 

• Watch: Donnalyn Pompper on CBS Philly: Women Share How Mary Tyler Moore Shaped Culture, Impacted Social Change.

 

• Published Works: ACCORD Affiliate member Sherry S. Yu has two new publications on ethnic media:
  • Ethnic media: Moving beyond boundaries, in The Routledge companion to media and race. An abstract and full citation are available here.
  • Ethnic media as communities of practice: The cultural and institutional identities, in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. An abstract and full citation are available here. 

 

• In The News: ACCORD Director Karen M. Turner was quoted in Metro and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Read her reflections in How will Barack Obama be Remembered in History and Obama Leaves Complex Legacy About Race in America.

 

• Published Commentary:  Elizabeth L. Sweet has a new publication in the July 2016 issue of Dialogues in Human Geography. Access her commentary, Carceral feminism: Linking the state, intersectional bodies, and the dichotomy of place, here.

 

• 2019 Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award from the Government Documents Round Table for the co-authored book, Government Information Essentials.

 

• Featured talk: How the Chat in the Stacks moves from Dialogue to Action. Rizal Library at the Ateneo de Manila University. Quezon City, Philippines.

 

• “You’re a Superhero, Not an Imposter: The Strengths of Librarians of Color” Roundtable. Association of College & Research Libraries conference, Cleveland, OH.

 

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