Codi Renee Blackmon, Johns Hopkins University, has received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication for, “Unveiling Racial Dynamics: BLAIWOC Technical Communication within White-Dominant Online Recovery Spaces.” Blackmon received a PhD in 2025 from East Carolina University. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization...

That Book is Dangerous: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars are Remaking Publishing” with Adam Szetela Tuesday, February 3rd @ 5:30pm – 6:30pm | Hodson 110 Join JHU’s campus chapter of the Heterodox Academy for a thought-provoking conversation with Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture...

Matthew Pavesich and Leslie Tellería, of Washington, D.C., recently won a grant from the National Humanities Center to hold a special event in D.C. as part of the NHC’s Spring 2026 global Being Human Festival. Pavesich and Tellería’s event, “The State of D.C.: an activist graffiti party,”  will be a multi-media art installation and interactive arts...

Nate Brown has been named one of this year’s judges for the Marfield Prize, an annual book award recognizing excellence in longform writing about the arts. Now in its 20th year, the Marfield Prize annually awards $10,000 to an author who has written a book-length work about the visual or performing arts.  Brown will judge the prize...

UWP senior lecturer Nate Brown has been named a fiction fellow at Millay Arts, an artists’ residency program founded in 1973 and located at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet and activist Edna St. Vincent Millay in New York’s Hudson Valley.  He will spend the month of May in residence at Steepletop working on a longform...

Codi Renee Blackmon has appeared twice on La Rhetorica Podcast. Rooted in an AfroLatina perspective, this podcast centers the voices, experiences, and brilliance of women of color in rhetoric and composition.  In Episode 1: Navigating the Academy, Dr. Amanda Patterson Partin sits down with Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon to talk about what it really means to survive and...

In October 2025, Neşe Devenot was invited to speak at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal for a symposium on “Psychedelic Therapy: From Evidence to Equity,” which was centered on policy stakeholders, regulators, and thought leaders in law and ethics. This event was organized by the PsyPal Consortium, the first psychedelic clinical trial funded by...

In December, the London School of Economics’ higher education podcast interviewed Matthew Pavesich and two others about teaching, learning, the role of play, and material classroom design. Listen here:  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2025/12/11/why-cant-classrooms-be-playful/

The December public humanities newsletter from Arizona State and the National Humanities Alliance includes an interview with Matthew Pavesich:  https://humanitiesforall.substack.com/p/december-2025-public-humanities.  In the interview, Pavesich discusses his sense of the opportunities and challenges of public engagement, his current and future public work, and more.

Neşe Devenot is the first author and lead architect of a book-length investigative report: “The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry.” The report was coauthored by colleagues at the small psychedelic harm reduction nonprofit, Psymposia. Having begun as a response to retaliation against three of the authors’ FDA testimony about MDMA-assisted therapy,...