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Halle Young

Barnard College

Halle Young is a recent graduate of Barnard College, where she received her Bachelors of Arts degree in anthropology. Her research examines how young, prenatal women negotiate, articulate, and manage their experiences of chronic pelvic pain. Her paper explicates the critical differences between prompted, recurrent pain and constant bodily pain in terms of the subjectivity of chronic pelvic pain, the problematic insistence on vaginal penetration as evidence of cure, and the dilemmas of treating pain with doubly painful therapies.  Currently, she serves as an Avodah Corps Member in New Orleans, where she leads the institutional memory project at Ashé Cultural Arts Center.

 

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Emily Wilson

University of Chicago

Emily Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Michigan where she specialized in social policy, organizational management, and housing and homelessness. Her dissertation research analyzes experimentations in volunteerism and charitable social care services in Northern England, a region impacted by ongoing austerity measures. Her research tracks the experiences of charity staff, volunteers, and social care recipients as they negotiate relations of care amidst continuous budget cuts, program closures, and ideological suspicion of the state. She has been the recipient of multiple fellowships including a National Science Foundation (NSF) doctoral dissertation research grant, Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) Lemelson Fellowship, Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph field research award, and a Graduate Research Fellowship from the Nicholson Center for British Studies.

 

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Alisha Nguyen

Boston College

Alisha Nguyen is a doctoral candidate from the Department of Teaching, Curriculum, & Society at the Lynch School of Education & Human Development, Boston College. Her scholarship mostly focuses on the intersectionality of language, power, race, class, and gender in education. She is a recipient of the Kelsey A. Rennebohm Memorial Fellowship granted by the Center of Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College. Her scholarship has been supported by the NEA Foundation and the International Literacy Association. Her Peter K. New paper on Facebook community and food culture is a “homecoming” project in which she attempted to trace and connect with Vietnamese diasporic communities through digital food memories.