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Congratulations to Hale Thompson, PhD Candidate, National Science Foundation IGERT Pre-Doctoral Scholar, Community Health Sciences, in the UIC School of Public Health, and WriteOut! alum, on the publication of this article, which he worked on during a WriteOut! retreat:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SnbJsZVY4keD9yKmGme9/full
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Date/Time: Friday, April 3, 2015
1:30 Location: Art and Exhibition Hall (AEH) 400 S. Peoria Chicago, IL 60607 Room 2232 WOO HOO to Ivis Garcia, an alumna of WriteOut! who attended multiple sessions and regularly came to IRRPP to write in between retreats.
The Department of Urban Planning & Policy is pleased to announce the upcoming doctoral dissertation defense: Ph.D CANDIDATE: Ivis Garcia Zambrana TITLE OF DISSERTATION: The Puerto Rican Identity: Reconstructing Ownership in the Face of Change Date/Time: Friday, April 3, 2015 1:00 Location: SRH (Student Residence Hall) 818 S. Wolcott Chicago, IL 60607 Room 325 DEFENSE COMMITTEE: Dr. David C. Perry (Advisor and Chair) Dr. Janet Smith Dr. John J. Betancur Dr. Phil Ashton Dr. Ralph Cintron, UIC English Department ABSTRACT This dissertation seeks to elucidate currently existing as well as historic relationships between market typologies, the structured dynamics of housing stratification and distribution, and community development strategies in a primarily Puerto Rican community. In particular this research constructs a model framework from which to interpret Puerto Rican discourses surrounding ownership in Humboldt Park, Chicago. In this work, I contend that Puerto Ricans have attempted, with some degree of success, to construct narrativized and symbolic forms of ownership in lieu of the individualized and commodified ideals held as common-sense within the broader American community. To ground the theoretical propositions espoused within the dissertation, I spent more than four and a half years conducting participatory action research alongside the Puerto Rican Agenda—an activist organization on Chicago’s West Side composed of community leaders, academics, and executive directors representing various non-profit organizations (known colloquially as the “Agenda”)—and implemented a cross section of qualitative case-study methods regarding focus group facilitation, interviews, and document mining. Quantitatively, my study was largely informed through surveys, demographic techniques and analyses which are represented with geospatial statistical analyses. Where successful, the community’s attempts at constructing systems of ownership outside of the mainstream financial and market-dependent modalities have tended to present a legitimate challenge to marketized housing schemes and, if pursued and developed more fully, may offer collectivized solutions to the structurally problematic ideals of privatized and highly individuated modes of economy. While this sort of community-driven ownership has obvious implications for disenfranchised groups (racialized, ethnic, non-traditional), there is also potential for far deeper implications pertaining to the problems of uneven development, the role of the state in the formation and maintenance of market-economies, grassroots organizing, and housing policy more generally. *All are welcome to this public defense.* Congratulations Kei Hotoda, an alumna of WriteOut!
We are very pleased to announce two UIC Graduate Students selected to participate in the Alternative Academic Career Summer Workshops for Pre-doctoral Students sponsored by the Humanities Without Walls Consortium. Congratulations to Kei Hotoda, Department of Philosophy, and Tyler Miller, Department of History. They will join a cohort of thirty graduate students from midwest universities for a three-week program during summer 2015. The workshop will feature intensive discussions with representatives of public humanities programs, university presses, learned societies, and digital humanities projects. The inaugural Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral workshops are designed to represent a broadened vision of life in the humanities and serve as a cross-disciplinary engine for the potential reorganization of graduate programs.  ...WriteOut! Alums, who cannot contain their fabulousness. Check it out: -MB
 Three-Time WriteOut! Alum Patrick Washington (Sociology) successfully defended his dissertation proposal on December 11th, 2013. Nice work Patrick.
WriteOut!ers do such great things, we wanted to share them with you. Check back here for news about our writers' accomplishments and to learn what Francesca and Michelle have cooked up for you. -MB
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