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Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the new Diversity Initiative and how the hopes to bring change to admissions and hiring practices at the University.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses her experience as a person living with MS and the new grant that hopes to slow down the effects of MS in women through water aerobics fitness.
Rebecca Young, 1999-2000 Bayly McIntire Graduate Student Fellow, discusses her dissertation that focuses on the relationship of non-conformist communities to art production in San Francisco in 1950's- '60s and her latest curation "African American Graphic Work of Contemporary Women Artists."
Johanna Drucker, the first Robertson Professor of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia, discusses how the new program will focus on history, criticisms and the deconstruction of media.
A documentary film series and website about Virginia's history since the Civil War.
Episode 1– New Deal Virginia explores two significant changes in Virginia history: the creation of Shenandoah National Park and the electrification of rural Virginia. Both stories trace the effects of the federal government on the lives of everyday rural Virginians in the 1930s. Letters, maps, newspaper stories and teaching resources accompany this exploration and film (30 minutes).
Episode 3 – Massive Resistance became Virginia's policy to prevent school desegregation in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Many of Virginia's white leaders resisted integration with all of their considerable political and legal means. The story of massive resistance and of black Virginians' protests against segregation began in the early 1950s and continues today. This two-part film (one hour) traces the history of massive resistance in Virginia and considers some of its legacies. "Massive Resistance" was an Emmy Nominee in 2000 of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and will be shown nationally on PBS in February 2002 for Black History Month.
Episode 4 – Virginia Fights World War II explores the transformative changes that Virginia experienced in World War II. Virginia mobilized hundreds of thousands of citizens during World War II and became the home base for a host of navy, army munitions, and defense industries. Virginia's soldiers fought in the Pacific and landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. This two-part film (one hour) follows the stories of everyday Virginians, those who fought at D-Day and those who patrolled Virginia beaches, worked in the munition plants, flew missions in Europe, and fell in love during the war. This site contains the image archive for the film--over 1,600 images of Virginia or Virginians in World War II.
Anne Firor Scott, Professor at Duke University, writer, activist and pioneer in the history of women, discusses her work and the importance of the African-American women activists and their part in the expansion of the "Black Middle Class."
Ellen Contini Morava, program chair of linguistics and professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the different feminist moral stands on the Clinton White House's controversy.
Erin Davis discusses her dissertation focusing on the lives of people living in a different a gender from the one assigned to them at birth, and further explains the newer term of transsexuality.