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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.

Paula Debnar

Publication

A. Powell, & P. Debnar (Eds.). (2021). Thucydides and Sparta. The Classical Press of Wales.

Corinne M. Demas

Publication

New Book: Once There Was published May 2, 2023.

Barbie Diewald

Grant

Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts for their New Work New England project: Concourse. The fellowship is for one year.

Honor

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.

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."

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.

Dinko Hanaan Dinko

Publication

Dinko, D. H., Kansanga, M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2024). Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood. Land Use Policy, 136, 106962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962

Dinko, D. H., & Bahati, I. (2023). A Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Security and Livelihoods in Semiarid Africa: Cases From Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana. Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, 1, 107–118. https://doi.org/10.1162/crcj_a_00002

Dinko Hanaan Dinko & Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong (2023): Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2231528