Graduate Student Updates
Hollis Griffin (Radio/Television/Film) presented “Public
Screens, Commercial Spaces, and Media Culture’s Gay Consumer-
Citizen” at the School of Communication’s Graduate
Research Symposium in the fall. In November, Griffin was a
panelist on the Chicago Film Seminar’s roundtable discussion“Current Issues in Media Historiography.” In February, he was
selected to participate in the Alice Kaplan Institute for the
Humanities Dissertation Forum. In March, Griffin contributed“Queer, There, Everywhere: Buying & Selling Citizenship on Gay
Cable TV” to In Media Res.
Jenny Korn (Sociology) became this year’s director of Northwestern University’s Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora. Korn organized a panel on race research and a panel on health issues, and she presented on online racial identities at the Mid-South Sociological Association conference.
Margo Miller (Radio/Television/Film) participated in a roundtable discussion on “Failure” at The University of Texas at Austin’s “Flow” conference in October and gave a talk titled “Why ‘Leave it to Beaver’ When You Can Ask Your Queer Uncle?: Television Comedy, Transgender Culture, and the Camp Archive, 1955-1969” at Yale University in April.
Gregory Mitchell (Performance Studies) presented a paper entitled “Sex Tourism as Civil Right?: Neoliberalism, Gay Rights, and Brazil’s Gay Sex Tourist Industry” at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting. He also published a book review of Patty Kelly’s “Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel” in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Mitchell is the co-coordinator of the Gender Studies Doctoral Colloquium this year, and the organizing committee chair for “Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines,” a national graduate student conference being held at Northwestern in April.
Michal Raucher (Religion) recently received a Fulbright grant to conduct her dissertation research in Israel. She is chairing a graduate student conference on “Religion and Identity” this spring.
