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Nicoletta LaMarco Sacco has released six episodes of her new podcast Hi & Stuff,babout parenting, autism, and caring for caregivers. She also published " My Autistic Son's Pot Use Changed My Liberal Views on Legalization" in Newsweek.

Shruti Jain and Liyang Dong were each awarded the BU Graduate Excellence Award in Teaching 2023

Zunaira Yousaf was awarded the BU Graduate Excellence Award in Service and Outreach 2023

Lisa Yun and the Immigrants Wake America podcast team - Shruti Jain, Le Li, Mamen Rodriguez, Kathryn Lloyd - were awarded a grant by Humanities New York for 2023-24 to produce "Hidden Heroes in a Small Town," a podcast series focused on immigrant caseworkers, in partnership with the American Civic Association  and  The Tenement Museum.

Mamen Rodriguez Gallo was appointed the Graduate Assistant for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program  (2023-present) and was selected to participate in the month-long Institute for World Literature at Harvard University in July 2023.

Zunaira Yousaf was awarded an HNY Public Humanities Grant 2023-24 and is a graduate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities to further develop her project, a digital archive on "Pakistani Re-Migration." She also presented her work at Lyceum and at the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier.  

Birgit Brander Rasmussen was awarded a fellowship at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute for 2023-24.

Shruti Jain and Mamen Rodriguez Gallo presented their work on the Immigrants Wake America podcast at the BU Community Engaged Research and Learning Showcase 2023. Shruti also produces a podcast Confluence : Humanities for the Public Sphere for the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities.

Liyang Dong  gave a talk in April '23 at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, where she was a graduate fellow supported by an HNY Public Humanities fellowship. Her research was featured in Digital Byte: "The Golden Venture: A Research Journey."  She teaches courses on Asian American literature and is working on a digital dissertation about the Golden Venture case of 1993. 

Jennifer Stoever was awarded an NEH Fellowship  2023 for her ongoing work on "Living Room Revolutions: Black and Brown Women Collecting Records, Selecting Sounds, and Making New Worlds in the 1970s Bronx."  She recently organized the Oral History Meetup at the Bundy Museum August 5, 2023, sponsored by the  Oral History Association, DIY Bing Punk Community Archive, Riot Act Books,  Bundy Museum of History and Art, and the Engaged Digital Humanities Group.

Bridget Whearty authored Digital Codicology : Medieval Books and Modern Labor (Stanford UP, 2022), which centers modern labor and laborers at the heart of digital cultural heritage  and argues for a more just future for medieval, manuscript, and media studies.