Faculty publications
Dionne Lee: Currents
Professor Dionne Lee's first monograph (Aperture, 2026)
- The monograph works across photography, video, and collage to examine interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and identity in the American landscape.
Intersectionality and Human Rights Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments
Co-edited by Dr. Lyn Tjon Soei Len (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025)
- The book rewrites recent European Court of Human Rights judgments, and considers how to better respond to issues of oppression, discrimination, and human rights harms.
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism
Co-edited by Dr. Treva Lindsey (University of California Press, 2026)
- The book analyzes Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the context of Hip Hop culture and music.
The Crip Linguistics Reader
Co-edited by Dr. Octavian Robinson (Galludet University Press, 2025)
- The collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and critical disability lens to consider language and linguistics.
Religion in the Américas: Trans-hemispheric and Transcultural Approaches
Co-edited by Dr. Jessica Delgado (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)
- The book uses a transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric lens to explore religion in Latin America and its communities in the United States.
Faculty awards and grants
Dr. Joyce Chen
- Joyce was selected as a Faculty Fellow at The Women's Place from January through June 2025.
Professor Dionne Lee
- Dionne was selected for the 2025 Class of Guggenheim Fellows for her outstanding work in photography. This prestigious fellowship is awarded to individuals who demonstrate exceptional ability and offers support to pursue scholarship in their discipline and creative art form.
Dr. Ashley Smith-Purviance
- Ashley was awarded the Arts & Humanities Accelerator and Amplifier Large Grant for $10,000 toward her digital humanities project, The Rolling Archives of Black Girlhood.
Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas
- Mytheli received the Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award, recognizing a full professor for teaching, research, and service.
Dr. Mary Thomas
- In Autumn 2025, Mary was an Office of Outreach and Engagement Faculty Fellow.
- Mary was awarded a three-year Mellon Foundation grant ($500,000) in support of the degree program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, titled, Expanding humanities curricula, pedagogies, and workforce development through the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP).
- She also received the Spark Grant ($19,856) for Lima campus' theatre program with Prof. Margie Anich, funded by Mellon Foundation and administered through the vice-provost for the arts. The theatre program spanned AY 25-26 and was held at the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima.
Faculty articles, exhibitions, and presentations
Dr. Joyce Chen
- Thiede, Brian C., Joyce J. Chen, Valerie Mueller, Carolynne Hultquist, Zarmeen Salim. 2025. “It's Raining Babies? Flood Exposures and Fertility in Bangladesh.” Population and Development Review. 51(4), 1466-1498.
- “The Crisis of Affordability.” Action for Children. December 2025. https://www.actionforchildren.org/wp-content/u ploads/2026/02/1210_COCCP-SurveyReport-2025. pdf
- Joyce also presented at Wexner Center for the Arts Night of Ideas, "Reimagining Labor Mobility" and was a panelist on the Blue Chip Forum through Columbus Metropolitan Club.
Professor Dionne Lee
- Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX. September 4, 2026 - February 14, 2027.
Dr. Octavian Robinson
- Pirone, J., Robinson, O., Moriarty, E., Lazarus, N. “Do I Belong?: Implications of the ASLPI.” Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
Dr. Ashley Smith-Purviance
- Smith-Purviance, A. L. (2026). Black Movement Geographies: Roller-Skating, Memory, and Black Women’s Embodied Practices of Fugitivity. The Black Scholar, 56(1), 27–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2025.2599717
Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas
- "An Advertisement Ahead of its Time? Traveling Abortion Technologies in 1970s India and Beyond," The American Historical Review, 131, no. 1 (March 2026): 194-210.
- "Traveling Histories of Abortion," co-authored by Lynn M. Thomas, Mytheli Sreenivas, Natalie L. Kimball, Lina-Maria Murillo, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, The American Historical Review 131, no. 1 (March 2026): 143-159.
Check out these podcasts
Dr. Joyce Chen
On an episode of ASC's Voices of Excellence podcast titled, Joyce Chen: A Humanistic View of Economics, Joyce discusses the intersection of economics and social contexts. She also shares on her research on climate-induced migration in Bangladesh, as well as how she supports communities and non-profits through research insights.
Dr. Ashley Smith-Purviance
Ashley released the first season of The Rolling Archives Podcast, which features conversations about Black girlhood, memory, and topics, such as mental health, grief, fashion, archiving, sisterhood, Black Girlhood Studies, Black girl educational spaces, and Black girlhood in media Ashley released the first and pop culture. Some featured guests include Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, Dr. Aria Halliday, Dr. Rikki Byrd, and many more. Check out the first season, episodes 1-10, on Spotify, Apple, iHeart and watch the full video episodes on YouTube at The Rolling Archives Podcast.