Publications
EuropeNow
The Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education has curated four special issues of EuropeNow, the digital platform for the Council of European Studies (CES). These issues have featured the work of Vassar faculty, students, and alums. Those issues, as well as the individual contributions from the Vassar community, are listed below.
- Issue 44: Displacement, Memory, and Design (October 2021)
- Introduction by Ava McElhone Yates, Chase Estes, and Maria Höhn
- Issue 36: Networks of Solidarity During Crises (October 2020)
- Introduction by Matthew Brill-Carlat, Ava McElhone Yates, and Maria Höhn
- “Fostering a Revolution: Reproductive Work and the Spanish Republican Exile in Mexico” by Marcela Romero Rivera
- “The Burden of Freedom: Therapeutic Architecture as Self Fashioning in the British Protectorate of Lagos (1830s-1900)” by Adedoyin Teriba
- “A Selective Bibliography of Forced Migration: Resources for A New Generation of Discourse” by Elijah Appelson, Matthew Brill-Carlat, Samantha Cavagnolo, Violet Cenedella, Angie Diaz, Kaiya John, Naima Nader, and Haru Sugishita
- Issue 30: Narration on the Move (October 2019)
- Introduction by Brittany Murray and Matthew Brill-Carlat
- “The Medieval University as Refuge” by Nancy Bisaha
- “Life After War: Disturbed” by Amy Kaslow (Vassar College ’81)
- “Committing to Academic Sanctuary: An Interview with Dr. Arien Mack” by Matthew Brill-Carlat
- “Foreign, Strange, Singular, Exceptional: An Interview with Jérôme Ruillier” by Brittany Murray
- Campus Spotlight
- “The ’I Learn America’ Project: Vassar College and Migrant Narratives from Poughkeepsie, NY” by Tracey Holland
- “Displaced Students and Higher Education Access: Reflections from Vassar College” by Matthew Brill-Carlat
- New Americans Summer Program at Vassar College by Jan Müller
- “Conversations Unbound: Student Engagement with Migration through Language Learning” by Elise Shea, Eva Woods Peiró, and Camelia Suleiman
- “Building Inclusive Communities with Latinx Poughkeepsie” by Eva Woods Peiró
- “Ellis Island: Disability and Nationalism in American Immigration History” by Lauranne Wolfe
- “Resignation Syndrome: A New Conversation” by Ava McElhone Yates
- “Book Review Essay: Narrating Refugee Identities” by Desmond Curran
- Issue 25: Forced Migration, Displacement, and the Liberal Arts (March 2019)
- Introduction by Maria Höhn, Brittany Murray, and Nicole Shea
- “Mobilizing Disciplinary Knowledge in the Migration Studies Classroom: The Case of Migrant Literatures in French” by Brittany Murray
- “Forced Migration, Student Responses, and the Liberal Arts” by Matthew Brill-Carlat
- “Genesis and Philosophy: An Interview with Members of CFMDE” by Matthew Brill-Carlat and Margaret Edgecombe
- “Implementation and Cross-Campus Collaboration: An Interview with Members of CFMDE” by Matthew Brill-Carlat and Margaret Edgecombe
- Additional EuropeNow contributions:
- Introduction by Maria Höhn and Nicole Shea (Issue 8: Sustainability & Innovation, June 2017)
- “The Vassar Refugee Solidarity Initiative” by Anish Kanoria (Issue 8: Sustainability & Innovation, June 2017)
- "The Mid-Hudson Refugee Solidarity Alliance" by Maria Höhn (Issue 4: Forced Migration, Cultural Identity, and Trauma, February 2017)
Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What?
Matthew Brill-Carlat, Maria Höhn (Vassar College), and Brittany Murray (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) have compiled an edited collection of essays, Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What? that will be published in Spring 2021 with Palgrave Press. The collection of essays is a timely tool kit to guide how educators rethink teaching and community-engaged learning in response to global challenges presented by forced migration, climate change, and now, epidemics like COVID-19. The book seeks to answer a set of related questions: How are educators and learners developing the competencies, infrastructure, and relationships to respond effectively to forced migration? How has the effort to expand access to education in turn enriched higher education curriculum, a curriculum enhanced by refugee knowledges, community-engaged learning models, and interdisciplinary approaches?
Global Trends in Orthodox and Traditional Treatment of Selected Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases
Global Trends in Orthodox and Traditional Treatment of Selected Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases is a book published in February 2021 by Funmilola A. Ayeni (a scholar previously hosted at Vassar by the Institute for International Education, the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, and Vassar College) and seven of her Vassar students: Emily Longo ’21, Connor McShaffrey ’21, Alexis Alexander ’22, Rayya Brooks ’23, Kathryn Burke ’20, Clare Padrick ’23, and Yura Kim ’22. The book examines the age-long conflict between orthodox or traditional medicines for disease and the use of traditional medical treatment in various parts of the world for selected infectious (malaria, tuberculosis, cholera) and non-infectious (cancer, infertility, hypertension) diseases.