Graduating Senior Risha Roy, Medicine, Society, and the Humanities Major, won the 2025-2026 Engaged Scholarship Award for her Honors Thesis entitled, “”Anyone Can Get AIDS”: The Dynamics Between Public Health Media, Visual Culture, and Queer Women With AIDS, 1980s-1990s.” The honors thesis was judged to champion social justice due to Roy’s careful use of queer...
Join us on April 13 at the SNF Parkway Theatre for a special screening of the Academy-Award-nominated feature documentary Black Box Diaries, followed by a Q&A with director Shiori Itō. Based on the memoir that helped spark Japan’s #metoo movement, the film chronicles Shiori Itō’s ongoing investigation and pursuit of justice following the sexual violence she endured as a...
Codi Renee Blackmon recently published “Race Conversations as Technical and Professional Communication” in Technical Communication and Social Justice. In the article, Blackmon examines how race discourse functions as technical and professional communication across academic, professional, and public contexts. Drawing on a real-world example, scholarship, and a case study of the National Museum of African American History...
On behalf of the OB/GYN Health Student Interest Society (OHSIS), we are pleased to invite you to a special event in recognition of Black Maternal Health Week sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Concern, the University Writing Program, and JHU Common Question. “Listen to Me”Film Screening, Discussion, and Reception Date: Saturday, April 11th...
Join UWP director Matt Pavesich and Leslie Telleria (D.J. Tropigal) at City State Public House in D.C. on May 2 from 2-6 pm for I ❤️ D.C.: Art and Activism Party. I ❤️ DC is an event by and for local creatives, community organizers, and all folx who care about our life in the District and...
In late March, Laura Hartmann-Villalta published her review of the exhibition Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing, in Modernism/modernity’s PrintPlus platform, under Orientations. This exhibit was on display at the George Peabody Library from September 22, 2024 through March 2, 2025 at Johns Hopkins University. With many photos taken by Hartmann-Villalta incorporated into the review, Orientations editor Amy Elkins wrote, “Every...
In the summer of 2023, UWP Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the Writing Center Nate Brown served as the associate producer and was cast in Stealing Cars, a feature-length independent film co-directed by Marly Hernández Cortés and Stephen Schuyler, both JHU faculty members in Film and Media Studies and the principals at Filmico Pastiche. The film...
UWP Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the Writing Center Nate Brown recently appeared on the Justin, Scott, and Spiegel morning show on 98 Rock, Baltimore’s rock radio station. Topics of discussion include the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, making art, addiction medicine, and life in Baltimore City. You...
Codi Renee Blackmon received the Cindy and Dickie Selfe DMAC Fellowship to attend the 2026 Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) at The Ohio State University. The fellowship supports scholars whose work advances diversity, access, and equity in digital media and composition studies. Blackmon was selected for research and teaching that engage digital literacies, multimodal...
Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky & Matt Pavesich were interviewed about their work with Next-Gen Scholars on college application essays. https://summer.jhu.edu/hopkins-experience/blue-jay-bulletin/faculty-focus
