Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Mary Pena (MSP16) until recently taught at Smith College as a Digital Pedagogy Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology.  As of this Fall, Mary has begun a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Dartmouth College, beginning with a two-year postdoctoral appointment as a Mellon Faculty Fellow.  Mary is also curating an ongoing three-part exhibition series through the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a multi-institutional Black feminist partnership.  The first exhibition titled, “Alive in their Garden,” was physically on view at Michigan State University in Spring 2023, and it was subsequently digitized as a virtual tour. This project was selected for peer-review in a special issue of Reviews in DH, a journal focused on digital scholarship in African diaspora, critical ethnic, and postcolonial studies.  This fall, Mary worked on finalizing plans for the culminating exhibition, opening in March 2025 at MSU.