Michael Woodford & Laura Wernick
Facilitating Institutional Change through Creative Performance: Promoting LGBTQQ Youth Empowerment Professor Woodford will work in collaboration with Lori Roddy, Callie Mckee and youth from Neutral Zone’s Riot Youth program and Social Work Ph.D. candidate Laura Wernick, to create an action research project that will improve school environments for LGBTQQ youth. The project team will use ...
Stephen Ward
Documenting Youth Activism, Performing History: 1966 Walkout at Northern High School Stephen Ward, Assistant Professor in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and the Residential College, is collaborating with Mosaic Youth Theater to conduct a study of and play about the student walkout from Detroit’s Northern High School in 1966. As a scholar of ...
Ray Silverman
Nkwantananso: Locating Culture in a Ghanaian Community Professor Silverman will collaborate with U-M students, community partner, Emmanuel Asare of Techiman, Ghana and Kodzo Gavua, Professor at University of Ghana to engage the Techiman community in developing a model for multifaceted collaborative work by exploring a number of issues associated with the location of culture in ...
Lori Brooks
Living the Arts: Tracing Culture and History in the 20th Century Through Music, Literature and Performance Professor Brooks will work in collaboration with Nandi Comer of Detroit InsideOut Literary Arts Project and Ph.D. candidate Shanesha Brooks to engage young poets in interactive, performance-oriented workshops that provide a living exploration of history and culture. To reinforce ...
Evelyn Alsultany
DisOrientation: Arabs and Muslims in the American Imagination In collaboration with the Arab American National Museum and the Michigan State University Museum, Alsultany is creating an online exhibit scheduled to be completed May 2011. This project has offered her the opportunity to make her scholarly expertise in representations of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. popular ...
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