Faculty Accomplishments

"Affirmative Action Isn’t Reverse Jim Crow: Asian Americans and the Reconstruction of White Entitlement,” Lecture. Antiblackness and Alliance: A Series on Asian-Black Race Relations, Asian American Center and Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Livestreamed September 30, 2020.

“Racial Capitalism and Disposable Populations in the Time of Covid-19,” Red May Seattle 2020: Capitalism or Life, Viral Edition, Livestreamed May 15, 2020

de Lima, L. 2023. Wearing a costume by Georgian artist Uta Bekaia, de Lima performed work from their new book Tropical Sacrifice as part of the Marissa Newman Projects booth at the 2022 Untitled Art Fair.

de Lima, L. 2023. Performed and exhibited Cosmic Bottom at Artists Alliance Inc.'s Cuchifritos Gallery in New York City in collaboration with visual artist Levani (Georgia). A multimedia reading and installation, Cosmic Bottom took place with the support of a 2021 Concept to Realization grant from Canada Council for the Arts.

Barbie Diewald is an invited speaker at the National Dance Education Organization's Summit for Dance Educators: Changing Spaces for Gender Inclusive Dance. They will be giving their talk “Dancing Into View: Lesbian Dance Histories in the Late Twentieth Century.” The virtual summit is March 1, 2025.

Barbie Diewald was commissioned to create a new choreographic work, “Prairie Dance” for the Motion State Dance Festival at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI. The work will premiere on March 27, 2025.
 

Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at Mount Holyoke College September 16 and 17, 2022.

Barbie Diewald was named a Faculty Research Fellow by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives for her project "Consoling Clarity: Queer and Lesbian Aesthetics in Twenty-First Century Dance."

Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists-in-residence at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. At the culmination of their residency, they shared an excerpt of their shared research, "Concourse" at the annual Jacob's Pillow College Partners Convening. Their next choreographic residency will be at High Street Studios in Ipswich, MA in December 2021.

Egüez Guevara, P. (2025) has been selected and received accreditation to participate at the upcoming Festival de Cannes, in France, between May 13 and 20, 2025 as an accomplished professional in the film industry. The Festival de Cannes accreditation is exclusively reserved for professionals in the film industry who can provide evidence of recent professional activity and relevant updates within a set of professional categories related to film.