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Join us at Journal Club on Wednesday, June 25th, from 10:00 – 11:30 in Tilford, Room 115!

What is Journal Club?   Journal Club is meant to be enjoyable and intellectually stimulating. Presentations are generally informal, and discussion is dynamic!  It’s a place for anyone in the Gonzaga community to explore ideas and research that interests them. It’s a community of students, faculty, and staff who gather together to say, “This is what I’m reading, this is what I’m interested in, and this is what I’m thinking.”

When We Meet During the Summer:  10:00 – 11:30 Wed. mornings in Tilford, Room 115. DATES: June 25, July 2, 9**, 16, 23

**Note:  We will be hosting a FREE day-long writing and grant seminar on July 9th in Tilford Room 405 from 9:00 to 4:00. GoToMeeting will be made available for those of you who would like to attend but live out of town. Free lunch is provided! Register by emailing Faith Gilbert at  gilbert.faith@gmail.com. For more details go to www.gonzaga.edu/journalclub.

What Are The Benefits?   Journal Club is an opportunity to get to know your fellow students and network with colleagues. It is an excellent platform for developing and improving teaching and presentation skills. It will also enhance your CV!

How Can I Participate?   It’s easy to be a part of Journal Club. You can either take 10 minutes to present a journal article, book chapter, or other scholarly work OR you can just show up and enjoy the dialogue!

It’s Simple To Present!   Email Dr. Chris Francovich (francovich@gonzaga.edu) or Faith Gilbert (gilbert.faith@gmail.com) to let them know you would like to present. • You will have up to 10 minutes to present.

For more details, go to www.gonzaga.edu/journalclub.

Journal Club is sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies.

Please see the attached flyer for the Akwaaba gathering, next wed the 18th from 4-530 in the Tilford Lobby!

Also you are welcome to bring your books with you to the event for the community market place.   

Akwaaba Flyer (3)

Kirk Young, currently entering the data gathering phase of his dissertation, has recently been named Vice President of Jamestown Community College in New York.

Doctoral candidates Rae Randleman and Debbie Brown recently attended the annual Cultural Studies Association conference, held this year at the University of Utah. The theme was “Ecologies: Relations of Culture, Matter, and Power.” This year was also special as Stuart Hall, the “father of cultural studies,” was honored due to his recent passing.

Rae was accepted into a closed seminar entitled, “Against the Romance of Collaboration,” and may be doing further work on the subject with this group. Debbie was accepted into a seminar entitled, “Workshop for Job Seekers in Cultural Studies.” Debbie also had a paper accepted called “Postcolonial Ecologies of Aid to African Nations,” which she presented as part of the panel, “Natural Order: Critical Examinations of Science, Visualization and Hegemony.” Additionally, Debbie was invited to chair this panel.

Thank you to Debbie Brown for this word below from Fr. Buchi in Nigeria.

Dear DPLS community,

Many of you know recent graduate, Dr. Maduabuchi Muoneme, better known to us as Father Buchi. Upon graduation, Father Buchi returned to his native country, Nigeria, to resume his duties as a Jesuit priest. In the wake of the 276 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram and further terrorist acts by this group that have left hundreds dead and everyone in fear, I emailed Father Buchi to see if he was OK and if there is anything we, the DPLS community, could do. I sent him the photograph of First Lady Michelle Obama holding up the sign, “#BringBackOurGirls” and attached a news story from NBC about the 80 troops we (the U.S.) now has in Chad to staff the drone operations that are flying over Nigeria looking for the missing girls.

With his permission, here is his response:

Dear Debbie,

Thank you for your prayers. It has been a nightmare in Nigeria. Although I am physically OK, it is difficult to say I am OK, because the whole nation is traumatized by the barbaric acts of this wicked sect. Response to the callous situation really requires international attention and coordinated effort. Please continue your prayers.

Thanks for the news you sent from Obama and the United Sates government. It beefs up hope for action and freedom!

Regards,

Buchi

Doctoral students, candidates, graduates and faculty have been honored again this year by ILA.

Presentations that have been accepted for the ILA 2014 international conference in San Diego include:

Experiences: Creating Collective Reality to Achieve Multi-agency Collaborations

Interior consciousness – A leader’s insights in collaborating with a pan African women led organization and a resettlement agency

Engaging men with undergraduate and graduate leadership programs

Leadership from the Margins: Perspectives from College Campuses and Beyond

Meaningful Leadership: Perspectives on Service, Identity, and Authenticity

Meaning, Peace, and Global Leadership

And here’s some of those who were accepted to present (please let me know if we’ve missed anyone so we can send out another shout to those we’ve missed):

Evelyne Ello Hart

Rusty Horton

Dr. Lyna Matesi

Dr. Brian Davenport

Dr. Nathaniel Pearson

Dr. Lunell Haught

Dr. Caroline Fu

Dr. Shann Ferch

Congratulations all!  The GU Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies has enjoyed a great affiliation with ILA over the years and we encourage you to come to the conference if you can, and join with others to put together a potential presentation for future conferences.

Hello All,

It saddens me to share the following announcement from Dr. Fu.

Dear DPLS community,

I am resigning my faculty position in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies.  I will be with you until the end of this summer session, when I resume pursuing the passion I set aside five years ago: transforming leadership work.  I have grown very fond of you, your passions, intelligence, and commitment to follow your bliss. I will continue to think of you and hope that many of you will allow me to continue supporting and accompanying you on your dissertation journey and beyond in any capacity that you deem appropriate.  I look forward to encountering your names in the press and amongst faculty announcements from universities worldwide.

Best wishes to all,
Caroline

Dr. Fu will be contacting her advisees soon about next steps going forward, if she has not already done so. As noted above, Caroline will be teaching through the Summer Session 2014.

We wish for Caroline her bliss as she follows her passions.

With gratitude for the care and attention Caroline has given to her students and to the Gonzaga community,

JoAnn and DPLS Faculty and Staff

Debbie Jean Brown, a PhD Candidate in the DPLS program, was recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Full Research/Study Grant to Zambia for the 2014-15 school year.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. It is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.

The Fulbright Program provides participants–chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential–with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

Fulbright Scholars can be found in over 155 countries around the world. The Full Research/Study Grant program for American graduate students receives about 5,000 applications per year and awards approximately 830 grants.  The grant includes round-trip airfare to the host country, books and other study supplies, a living stipend, and health insurance for the duration of the grant period, usually one school year (nine months).

Debbie hopes to begin her grant period in October 2014, pending visas and research clearance. The grant period would then be Oct 2014- Jun 2015. Debbie’s project is to document and archive the cultural history of the Chewa people in Zambia from about colonialism to the present. She will spend the first half of her grant period in the capital city of Lusaka at the University of Zambia (UNZA). She will work under the supervision of an UNZA professor doing primary document research in the UNZA African library. The second half of her stay will be spent in a Chewa village close to the border with Malawi. Here Debbie will do ethnographic research, especially documenting oral histories. Before returning home, she will wrap up the project at UNZA, although she hopes the archival website will go on indefinitely to preserve a rich, vibrant, and diverse cultural history.

Good Day All,

It recently came to DPLS attention that one of our doctoral students, Dung Q. Tran had an article published in the March 2014 edition of Communication Research Trends, a journal edited by Fr. Paul Soukup, S.J., Chair of the Communication Department at Santa Clara University. His essay, titled “Faith and a Contemporary Context for American Catholic Higher Education,” begins on page 29, and is based on the paper Dung presented at the Walter Ong, S.J. Conference that Gonzaga COM-L Department hosted in February.  See attached pdf.

CRT_vol33_n1_March_2014.Dung Tran Article Inside

Congratulations Dung!

DPLS Faculty