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Psychology Research Day
This year, we are honored to be virtually hosting two student panels along with a number of live individual student presentations that bring together research from graduate students across ten training areas in psychology at the Graduate Center. In them, we will tackle the feat of research during COVID-19, giving students an opportunity to showcase their wins and reflect on our collective losses. Our panels will explore the delicate nature and urgent research transnationally, reflecting on critical research with refugees/immigrants/activists/therapists globally, including in Germany, El Salvador, India, and Lebanon. A detailed conference program can be found below.
View our 2021 research presentations on the Psychology Research Day website.
Psychology Pedagogy Day
Please join us for Pedagogy Day 2021 on October 15th, 2021 from 9 am to 4 pm EST. This year’s theme is Learning As a Disruptive Praxis. We anticipate that this day will be full of provocations, challenges, collaborations, and community building as we reimagine the roles that community, compassion, and collective action serve in the classroom. We will be joined by a wonderful group of panelists and workshop facilitators who will engage us in critical discussions about how we can use pedagogy as a tool of disruption.
For more information, please visit our conference website here.
To attend this year’s conference, please register here. We hope to learn with you soon!
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Recent Books
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Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It
Seal Press, 2021
An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it.
In a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White mothers, still expected to be the primary parents, too often uncritically choose to send their kids to the “best” schools, collectively leading to a return to segregation. She addresses a feminism that pushes women of color aside, and a wellness industry that insulates white women in a bubble of their own privilege.
Daniels then charts a better path forward. She looks to the white women who fight neo-Nazis online and in the streets, and who challenge all-white spaces from workplaces to schools to neighborhoods. In the end, she shows how her fellow white women can work toward true equality for all.
Published October 2021

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education
SUNY Press, 2021
Bianca Williams; Dian D. Squire, Frank A. Tuitt
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university’s entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions—and university responses to them—expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education. Plantation politics are embedded in the everyday workings of universities—in not only the physical structures and spaces of academic institutions, but in its recruitment and attainment strategies, hiring practices, curriculum, and notions of sociality, safety, and community. The book is comprised of three sections that highlight how white supremacy shapes campus communities and classrooms; how current diversity and inclusion initiatives perpetuate inequality; and how students, staff, and faculty practice resistance in the face of institutional and legislative repression. Each chapter interrogates a connection between the academy and the plantation, exploring how Black people and their labor are viewed as simultaneously essential and disruptive to university cultures and economies. The volume is an indispensable read for students, faculty, student affairs professionals, and administrators invested in learning more about how power operates within education and imagining emancipatory futures.
Published March 2021

Hungry Ghosts
Monsoon, 2020 SINGAPORE SAGA, VOL.3
Set against the development of Singapore in the years 1852-1869, Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol 3) continues the vivid portrayal of the lives of the early pioneers, including Tan Kim Ching, W. H. Read, Habib Noh, Tan Kim Seng, Mother St Mathilde, Syed Ahmed Alsagoff and Whampoa as well as an array of fictional characters who bring nineteenth-century Singapore to life.
A female refugee from the Taiping Rebellion is kidnapped in Amoy and sold as a concubine in Singapore; an enterprising Indian convict converts his training as a metalworker into the more lucrative business of counterfeiting; a terror-filled secret society soldier is led down to the ten courts of hell on the night of the hungry ghosts; Duncan Simpson meets with the Heavenly King in Nanking and is tortured in a Chinese prison; an English wife escapes a loveless marriage when the ‘ghost ship’ CSS Alabama puts into Singapore.
As the fates and fortunes of its protagonists play themselves out against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War and the last years of the Taiping rebellion, Singapore becomes a Crown colony and celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its founding.
Hungry Ghosts is volume three in the Singapore Saga, a series of historical fiction covering the early years of Singapore, and follows Forbidden Hill and Chasing the Dragon.
Published November 2020