Faculty Accomplishments

Delivered the research presentation, "Outsourcing Migrant Control: 100 Years of Private Prisons,” at the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University on September 24, 2020.

Published a letter in the New York Times on August 16, 2020, "The Moves Against the Census: A reader says the government's actions obscure accuracy and harm the country." New York Times (print and online editions). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/opinion/letters/census-race.html?fbclid=IwAR1F69G-iwD-C6Bl2QxvEIhjE14rF2YWFGFrpC4phgb8MYtjxjGqUqR106Q

Interviewed for the radio show, “2020 Talks” by Pacifica Network and the Public News Service.  "Earth Day” and aired April 22, 2020.

Delivered the research presentation, "Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," at the Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City on January 29, 2020.

Presented twice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in November: (1) first delivering a research presentation, "From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants,” at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, on November 14, 2019; (2) as a panelist for the Social Science Matters series, "Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy,” on November 19, 2019.

Delivered the closing keynote address, "The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity," at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference, "Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers." San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2019.

Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024. https://sites.smith.edu/meridians/

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “But Thou Thyself Unbind”: The Uncontainable Sonnet seminar with Dora Malech, Lauren K. Watel, Laura T. Smith, and Walt Hunter at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2024.

Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Reader, “Reading and Interview with Ellen Miller-Mack, Riley Bowen, and Jon Plodzik.” Poet Talk, WMUA, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2024. https://poemtalk.transistor.fm/episodes/anna-maria-hong

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Shenandoah literary magazine, selecting poems by Majda Gama as the winner and by Desiree Santana as the runner-up. https://shenandoahliterary.org/732/in-great-aunt-noors-salon/