December 2025 Newsletter

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SJE Newsletter - December 2025

December Highlights

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December 1, 2025
Jose Miguel “Miggy” Esteban receives the Kathleen O’Connell Teaching Excellence Award
PhD candidate Miggy Esteban is awarded the 2025 Kathleen O’Connell Teaching Excellence Award from New College.
A photo from the first Fall 2025 Disability Salon Spotlight on October 31st. Four smiling people stand side by side. From left to right: Dr. Efrat Gold (wearing a blue cardigan, brown curly hair tied in a bun, clear glasses, smiling), Dr. Devon Healey (wearing a black sweatshirt with gold constellation design, straight brown hair in a bun, smiling), Matida Daffeh (swearing a striped red and orange blouse and pant set, long black locs tied back with two front pieces, smiling), and Paola Madrigal (wearing a t
December 1, 2025
Disability Salon Student Spotlight Series: Fall Highlights & One More to Come
SJE Disability Salons Student Spotlight Series: Fall 2025 has hosted two PhD student-led sessions, with one more on December 3rd.
The project team, a group of twenty-six people wearing masks and nametags, pose together indoors, smiling through their masks. They appear connected and supportive, suggesting a workshop or community event. The first row is seated or kneeling and the back row are standing. 
December 1, 2025
Pedagogies of Community-Engaged Practice, a Community-Based Research Project
SJE Chair Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández leads the community-based research project, Pedagogies of Community-Engaged Practice, and hosts an event on December 4th.
Cropped portion of the Lunch & Learn Dec 17 promotional poster. The text says "SJE DSA Presents "Academic Publishing: Process and Politics." Underneath reads "Presenter: Dr. Lor/etta LeMaster (she/they)" and her headshot is next to the text.
December 1, 2025
SJE DSA November Lunch & Learn Recap: Academic Publishing
SJE Departmental Student Association hosted a Lunch & Learn on Academic Publishing: Process and Politics, facilitated by SJE's Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster.
Headshot of Dr Shozab Raza standing in front of a concrete wall. He is smiling, with clear glasses and a beard, wearing a white shirt and gray cardigan.
December 1, 2025
Dr. Shozab Raza Awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
SJE Assistant Professor Dr. Shozab Raza received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Collage of three pictures in a row with thin white borders between. On the left is Dr. Sandra Acker smiling, who has white hair, glasses, a brown blouse. In the middle is Dr. Oili-Helena Ylijoko smiling, who wears a brown hat, glasses, and a floral shirt. On the right is Dr. Michelle K. McGinn smiling, who has grey hair, blue glasses, and wears a floral shirt. All three of them are outdoors, standing in front of blurred greenery, and are all holding copies of their book "The Social Production of Research"
December 1, 2025
Professor Emerita Sandra Acker, The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender
Professor Emerita Sandra Acker published The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender with Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Michelle K. McGinn.

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