2020 Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award
Dr. Tee R. Tyler
Paper Title: Interpersonal Discourses Between Parent and LGBTQ Child
Tee R. Tyler is an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. His research focuses on parent and LGBTQ child relationships. His clinical social work background includes three years of experience as a primary therapist at a residential treatment center for at-risk-youth. |
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Matt Archer
Paper Title: Asexualities in Higher Education
Matthew Archer (Matt) is an Educational Leadership PhD student at Oakland University, in Rochester Michigan. He holds a Masters in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Eastern Michigan University, and an undergraduate degree that focused Music and Dance from the University of South Carolina. A prior IT consultant and student affairs practitioner, he is deeply passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; about technology use and integration in higher education; and about support of the arts. His research work is on boosting the voices of underrepresented students, faculty, and staff, particularly in the areas of LGBTQIA+ student affairs and in disability support. Matt currently attends school full time and works a dual role as a Research Assistant in the College of Education and Human Services, and within the Human-Computer Interaction Lab in the College of Engineering, where he adds an educational psychology/student affairs tint to research initiatives exploring how app-based interfaces can be leveraged in different ways. Current projects within the lab focus on app-based sexual violence prevention and on professional faculty collaboration. He hopes to utilize this experience to form an Educational Technology cognate, while still strongly centering equity and inclusion work. Matt’s dissertation research focuses asexuality spectrums in higher education, and aims to explore, critique, and offer solutions for the ways in which educational institutions perpetuate mental health and identity stress disparities for their attending members. Matt also works with a local non-profit in Rochester, helping teens with disabilities navigate their work and training environments. If spare time allows, he sings with the Oakland Chorale, plays video games (and pretends it’s for research), and spends a great deal of time with his editor and personal assistant: a miniature dachshund named Umlaut (Umi). |
2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Samar Saif & Pamela "Mango" Gwen Ramos
Paper Title: Desi Muslim Kapampangan-Pilipinx Biomimicry Queer Femme Transmutations: Mirrored Fatality's Cocoon Webs
Mirrored Fatality is Queer brown performance art duo, Mango Gwen and Samar. Mirrored Fatality honors metamorphosis as ritual. They share their ancestral wisdom, rage, and regeneration through experimental and healing punk. Will you join them in imagining the future we’ve all been waiting for? Experience Mirrored Fatality’s reflections and bear witness to your highest, truest self. |