Social Justice and Cultural Studies Tracks
To further develop your vocational path, the Social Justice and Cultural Studies major has five tracks, promoting careers in law, policy, civil and human rights, refugee issues, art activism in graphic design, documentary film, creative writing and editing, future MA in education with a foundation in race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality class issues, social work and environmental policies, mediation in political or non-governmental organizations.
We encourage you to explore these links to vocational tracks:
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Or contact: Dr. Kimberly Segall, Director and Professor of Cultural Studies, at segalk@spu.edu
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Apply to the Major
You may enter this major during your first quarter at SPU. Entrance after your first quarter requires only good academic standing (2.0 or higher SPU cumulative GPA). Consult the undergraduate catalog
for complete information on how and when to enter and what you must do to complete the program.
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Recent Talks and Publications
Jennifer McFarlane-Harris is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University. She received her Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.
Research: Dr. Jennifer McFarlane-Harris’s research explores the function of God in spiritual narratives by Black women, examining theology making as self-constitutive. She is co-editor of the anthology Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven (Routledge 2021) and author of published articles on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Zilpha Elaw. From a chapter on race and gender in Verdi's Aida (Blackness in Opera, 2012) to conference presentations on mixed-race identity in literature and film, McFarlane-Harris’s scholarly agenda is intersectional and interdisciplinary. She recently had a chapter published in Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.
Kimberly Wedeven Segall is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University. She received her Ph.D. in English and Postcolonial Studies from Northwestern University.
Research: Dr. Kimberly Wedeven Segall’s book Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance (Syracuse University Press, 2013) traces women’s stories and digital activism and grassroots movements towards healing in Iraqi blogs and Iranian film and Cape Malay performances. Her book Superheroes in the Streets: Muslim Women Activists in the Digital Age, is a “timely and needed study highlighting Muslim American women artists’ radical interventions across digital platforms. Segall’s insightful analysis widens our understanding of the connections as well as tensions between celebrity icons, art, and activism, opening up new and exciting vistas for engaging with artistic articulations of resistance, revolt, and cross-racial solidarities,” –Carol Fadda, author of Contemporary Arab American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging.
Segall has also published chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance, The Companion to Contemporary Arab American Literature, Forms of Migration: Arab Perspectives on Immigrant Art and Literature, and several articles in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Public Culture, Research in African Literatures, and other journals.
Talking about ‘Superheroes in the Streets’
Kimberly Segall shares history of activism, tracing the stories of US Muslim women