College faculty retirees: May, Newsome, Nixon, Norris, Radomski
A guest post from the College
This is the third in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in 2021 and 2020. Enjoy the linked profiles, written by faculty colleagues within their departments, honoring these incredible teacher-scholars and their lasting legacies.
- Darlene R. May, Teaching Professor of Arabic
- Debbie W. Newsome, Associate Professor of Counseling and Associate Dean for Students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Patricia “Pat” A. Nixon, Professor of Health and Exercise Science
- James “Jim” L. Norris, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
- Teresa Radomski, Professor of Music
Categories: Faculty News, Guest Post, Inside WFU
Conference on Muslim identity in South Asia to be held Sept. 15-16
M. Raisur Rahman
A two-day workshop/conference to focus on the issue of Muslim identity in South Asia will be held Sept. 15-16 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. The workshop is entitled “Locality, Genre, and Muslim Belonging in South Asia. ” It is organized by M. Raisur Rahman, associate professor of history at Wake Forest, and Razak Khan, research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies in Gottingen, Germany.
The workshop will be free and open to the public. No registration is required.
According to organizers, as the year 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of India’s independence and partition, the comparative and interdisciplinary framework of the workshop hopes to build new dialogues across borders on shared and divergent trajectories of Muslims in South Asia.
Wake Forest sponsors for the workshop include the Provost’s Office for Global Affairs, the Department of History, the Middle East and South Asia Studies Program, and the Humanities Institute. Other sponsors include the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For additional information, visit college.wfu.edu/history/locality.
Categories: Events, Faculty News
Being Here: Salaam series of events underway on campus
A series of events known as “Being Here: Salaam” is underway at Wake Forest in September and early October.
The “Being Here: Salaam” project began Sept. 21 at Hanes Art Mezzanine Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center with an exhibit of photographs by Todd Drake featuring Imam Khalid Griggs, associate chaplain, and other Muslims–many from North Carolina. The exhibit, which draws from Drake’s “Muslim Self-Portrait” series, will continue until Oct. 9. In that exhibit, Griggs is the only member of the Wake Forest campus community featured.
This week, portraits of 12 Wake Forest Muslim students by Drake have been hung across campus on large banners in highly visible locations, such as the atrium at Z. Smith Reynolds Library. On each banner, a student self-identifies in a particular manner. For example, one banner reads “being here as a linguist,” while another reads, “being here as a scientist.”
Categories: Events
