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Research Information Splst/FEMDAC Project Manager
Date Posted: August 19, 2022

dei-job-openningThe UNM Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI), is seeking a motivated, dynamic, detail oriented individual to join the team as an Academic Hourly Researcher for a project titled, “Neoliberalism Gender and Curriculum Transformation in Higher Education”. The successful candidate will coordinate, oversee and/or perform a wide variety of research and support activities on behalf of the UNM Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI). A BA or BS degree and experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified is required.
For more information, see UNM Jobs requisition number 21025; 

The UNM Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI), is seeking a motivated, dynamic, detail oriented individual to join the team as an Academic Hourly Researcher for a project titled, “Neoliberalism Gender and Curriculum Transformation in Higher Education”. The successful candidate will coordinate, oversee and/or perform a wide variety of research and support activities on behalf of the UNM Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI). A BA or BS degree and experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified is required.

The ideal candidate will be a Ph.D. graduate hourly focused on research project activities, though postdocs are welcome to apply. The research project is funded by the Mellon Foundation [Grant #1811-06345, Neoliberalism Gender and Curriculum Transformation in Higher Education – UIUC # 094359, C1456]. And it is subtitled: Feminist Decoloniality as Care (FEMDAC). The position is 20 hours per week and pays at $25 per hour.

Please provide a resume or CV and letter of application that speaks to the requirements of the position. In your letter of application, describe your experiences with fulfilling job duties in the past and provide evidence of your successes with those endeavors.

    Duties will include but not be limited to:
  • Assisting with research Participant Recruitment and initial/baseline interviews with women academics
  • Transcribing interviews and assisting with analysis of letters and journal entries
  • Preparing mid-year and annual reports to be submitted to the Mellon Foundation
  • Preparing end-of-project reports to be submitted to the Mellon Foundation
  • Planning, coordinating logistics and staffing FemDAC workshops at UIUC and the 3-day final symposium, tentatively titled, Developing Women’s Research and Curriculum Leadership Capacity in the Context of Decolonising Curricula in International Contexts
  • Assisting with travel logistics for UIUC/UNM colleagues to international in-person and virtual workshops
  • Coordinating letter writing as reflexive method activities, including assisting with exchanges between participants in the U.S. and South Africa
  • Organizing and participating in monthly or bimonthly research team conference call
  • Coordinating research logistics of co-authorship among participants, and contributing as a co-author as well--for journal articles, conference presentations, and an edited volume (book manuscript)
  • Assisting with the collection of professional development plans as created by participants
  • Helping to build our website with professional and academic development materials, including decoloniality and feminist literature reviews, proposal writing resources, resources on becoming an effective mentor, and other resources as appropriate
  • Coordinating project-related travel for the PI and co-PI domestically and internationally
  • Coordinating research participants' joint contributions to national and international conferences, such as the African Studies' Association and American Educational Research Association meetings and the International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry
  • Helping to coordinate writing teams
  • Some modest travel may be required as related to project activities

Administrative Coordinator
Date Posted: July 19, 2022

dei-job-openningThe UNM Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI), is seeking a motivated, dynamic, detail oriented individual to join the team as Administrative Coordinator. The successful candidate will coordinate, oversee and/or perform a wide variety of administrative support activities on behalf of DEI and the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI).
For more information, see UNM Jobs requisition number 21025; Link: https://jobdescriptions.unm.edu/detail.php?id=A0047

2022 College Art Association (CAA) Distinguished Scholar: Dr. Kirsten Buick
Date Posted: February 15, 2022

BuickWe’re delighted to announce the Distinguished Scholar session at the 110th CAA Annual Conference will honor Kirsten Pai Buick. This session will highlight her career and provide an opportunity for dialogue between and among colleagues. It will be held virtually during the 110th Annual Conference on February 17, 2022.
Established in 2001, the Distinguished Scholar Session illuminates and celebrates the contributions of senior art historians. The Annual Conference Committee identifies the distinguished scholar each year and each session typically brings together the distinguished scholar and a group of colleagues. The honoree’s involvement is fundamental to the series as a way of demonstrating a living tradition that gives voice to the continuities and ruptures that have shaped art-historical scholarship from the twentieth century into the new millennium.

Dr. Georgiann Davis named the 2022 Feminist Activism Award winner by the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
Date Posted: February 1, 2022

GorginnaJanuary 26, 2022 – The University of New Mexico Division for Equity and Inclusion would like to congratulate Dr. Georgiann Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology, on being named the 2022 SWS Feminist Activism Award winner by the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS).
The SWS Feminist Activism Award, established in 1995, is presented annually to an SWS member who has notably and consistently used sociology to improve conditions for women in society. The award honors outstanding feminist advocacy efforts that embody the goal of service to women and that have identifiably improved women’s lives
Announcement Georgiann is a feminist medical sociologist and an intersex activist who is dedicated to three goals: 1) raising intersex awareness, 2) educating future medical doctors, and 3) ending the genital mutilation doctors often subject intersex people to surgically squeeze the intersex body into the arbitrary sex binary. Georgiann Davis is a scholar-activist whose research, teaching, and activism are at the intersection of medical violence and feminist theories. She is currently working on a feminist autoethnography tentatively entitled Five Star White Trash where she discusses the complexities of intergenerational mobility, whiteness, gender dogma, and the ways in which antifatness is rooted in anti-Blackness. She is a former board president of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth (2017-2020) and a past-president of InterConnect Support Group (2014-2015). You can read more about her research, teaching, and activism at www.georgianndavis.com.
Georgiann will be honored in person at the 2022 Winter Meeting at the Awards Banquet and Silent Auction on April 1, 2022. Georgiann and other Winter 2022 awardees will also be honored in a virtual ceremony to take place on February 7 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. Please register here for this celebration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItf-uprTMiHNc_pwXX_baOWxbEUt1Ksri Congratulations, Dr. Georgiann Davis!