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Meet Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Colgate University, Jacob Abell

Mar. 1, 2022—“I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Since graduating from Vanderbilt in June 2021, my work in the CMAP program continues to enrich my research agenda, teaching experience, and public-facing projects. In my time at CMAP, I co-founded the Ouray International Film Festival, an institute that now...

Meet e-Learning Developer for Sephora, Laura Strombergsson

Mar. 1, 2022—“Hi there, I’m Laura Strombergsson and I’m an e-Learning Developer for Sephora. I completed my Ph.D. in 2020 and have been in the corporate learning space for a few years now, first in a large, community-based healthcare system and now with a leader in the beauty industry. CMAP gave me a solid foundation for transitioning...

Meet Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Derek Price

Mar. 1, 2022—Since completing his Ph.D. in German Studies and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice, Derek has taken a position as Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for the Digital Humanities. To further develop his data analysis skills that he gained during the CMAP program, he is also enrolled in a part-time Data Analytics Bootcamp...

Nadejda Webb: Attempted Protest Poster

Feb. 26, 2022— My project is an attempt at creating a protest poster. I first researched the genre and found the works of Glenn Ligon, Emory Douglass and Beatriz Aurora particularly appealing. I then specified what issue I wanted to tackle and began outlining possibilities. In choosing to address the issue of police brutality against Native Peoples,...