««««« MARCH 2017

SOCIAL THOUGHT A N D POLITICAL ECONOMY NEWSLETTER

Fall 2017 Registration and

Advising Notes ALL STPEC students will need to come to the STPEC office for advising before they will be able to register

on SPIRE. ê Don’t wait until it’s your day to start

registering - come in early!!! ê Advising appointments with Katherine Mallory and

Monica Garcia may be made on-line through the Office Hours links for each advisor on STPEC

homepage - http://www.umass.edu/stpec. Access to the SPIRE system for registration for Fall 2017 courses begins MONDAY, APRIL 3. Students are ramped on to the system based on seniority, check SPIRE for your personal access date and time. The STPEC Recommended Course List and Course Descriptions will be posted on the STPEC website when registration begins. If you have any suggestions for courses you would like to see - or not see - put on our lists, please let us know! ê Praxis: Sign up for STPEC 494PI which will fulfill

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WELCOME TO NEW STUDENTS We are happy to welcome the following new students to the STPEC Program: Yara Akkeh, Marvens Pierre, Ayla Thorntona, Trevor Ridley and Lucia Solorzano.

STPEC Staff Fall 2017

Program Director Hoang Gia Phan Associate Program Director Graciela Monteagudo Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Director TBA Assistant Academic Advisor Monica Garcia Program Coordinator Donna Vanasse

Focus Seminar Instructors

Kevin A. Young, Associate Professor in the History

Department will teach STPEC 491H: Mass Resistance and Political

Strategy

Svati Shah, Associate Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies will teach

STPEC 492H: Marx and Postcolonialism

MEETINGS FOR NEW STPEC MAJORS

Every new STPEC major will have an individual meeting with Professor Hoang Phan, Director of the STPEC Program. Bring a completed Application to the STPEC Program, and a one page statement of interest to your meeting. Sign up sheets will be available in the office or you may email hgphan@english.umass.edu to schedule a half hour meeting on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the STPEC Library, E-27F Machmer.

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Advising Notes... continued from page 1 Please contact Katherine Mallory to add Internships and Donna Vanasse to add Independent Studies. ê To register for an Internship, fill out an Internship

Study Contract. For more instruction on fulfilling the STPEC Internship requirement, please see page 4.

ê To register for an Independent Study, fill out a STPEC Independent Study Form. Be sure to give your completed form to Donna Vanasse, STPEC’s Program Coordinator (you may leave it in her mailbox if she is not available in person).

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GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING INTERNSHIP FUND

Interested in working with a grassroots organization but don’t have the $$ to support yourself? STPEC wants to help. In line with our commitment to support local grassroots organizations working within social movements and the ability of our students to participate effectively in those movements, STPEC is now offering funding for SUMMER INTERNSHIPS to enrolled students who choose to take on unpaid positions at local grassroots organizations. If you are interested, please drop by the office to pick up a list of organizations and application instructions.

• ARISE! For Social Justice • Springfield No One Leaves

• Out Now • The Pioneer Valley Workers Center

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: April 14.

Did You Know....? Depending on the topic, some STPEC Focus Seminars can be used to fulfill a STPEC upper level requirement. êSTPEC 491H, Mass Resistance and Political Strategy, may be used to fulfill Modern Social Theory & Social Movements requirement. êSTPEC 492H, Marx and Postcolonialism may be used to fulfill the upper level requirement for Modern Social Theory & Social Movements; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory; and Non-Western Perspectives, Global South and Indigenous People. (Focus Seminars used in this way cannot be used to fulfill the focus seminar requirement at the same time.) INCOMPLETES IN CORE SEMINAR I: Once again a reminder that STPEC 391H is a pre-requisite for all other STPEC seminars. You will not be admitted to other STPEC seminars until you have completed (with a grade of C or better) STPEC 391H.

Spring 2017 Full Executive Committee Meeting

STPEC’s next full Executive Committee meetings will be held from 3:00-6pm on Friday, April 21 in Machmer E-32.

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«««Save the Date«««

“White Supremacy in the Age of Terror”

Wednesday, March 29, 4:30 pm. Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall

What does the anthropology of white supremacy have to say about the Global War on Terror? Junaid Rana will discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial infrastructure as part of an ethnographic description of everyday life in a working class Pakistani neighborhood in New York. More broadly this work examines how white supremacy has conjured Islam and Muslims as an object of racecraft that under current rubrics of policing solidify a wide range of law enforcement of communities of color. Junaid Rana is associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. Rana specializes in Asian American Studies, Anthropology, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Labor Migration.

Junaid Rana is associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle

Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is the author of the book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2011.)

STUDENTS NEEDED FOR THE FALL 2017 STPEC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE!!! STPEC students have the unique opportunity not only to make decisions about their own education, but also to provide leadership and vision to the major itself. The STPEC Executive Committee is the official governing body of the major and is one very important way students are empowered to determine STPEC policy and educational vision. Consisting of STPEC students and staff and supportive UMass faculty, the Executive Committee is a representative body that uses a consensus decision-making process to determine policy. Issues are gathered by students and staff during the semester and presented to the Executive Committee for final approval or direction.

If you are interested in participating in the STPEC Executive Committee for the Fall 2017 semester please check out the syllabus on-line and register for STPEC 291X.

For more information email hgphan@english.umass.edu.

Congratulations to the Recipients of the

Spring 2016 Sara Lennox Scholarship

• Celia Jailer Shannon ‘17 • CD Lefebvre ‘17

STPEC Program «E-27A Machmer Hall «(413) 545-0043 « www.umass.edu/stpec

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Do you want to help us

Do you... « want to have a voice in your major?

yearn for democracy? want something GOOD to put on your resume?

Interning in the STPEC office is one way students can help create a participatory major, support a community conducive to critical thought and social change, and contribute to the continual rethinking and revising of the STPEC major. Office staff duties and projects reflect the needs of the program and the interests of the students and include attending weekly staff meetings, assisting with STPEC office work, working on program publications like the STPEC newsletter, organizing student events, and making weekly program decisions. STPEC office staff members also learn useful skills like consensus decision-making, meeting facilitation, peer-advising and mentoring, and negotiating bureaucracy. If you would like to participate in creating the present and future of your STPEC major please consider joining the STPEC office staff! You can sign up for this class on-line: STPEC 198Y, section 1, Schedule # 31348. Check the STPEC website for the syllabus (found under the Academics tab) or talk to a staff member if you have questions. All STPEC Office Staff meetings are mandatory

for all office staff members! Staff meetings are held on Mondays from 2:30-4:00 pm in the STPEC Office (E-27A Machmer Hall).

All About the STPEC Internship Requirement (STPEC 498Y)

All STPEC majors are required to complete a 3 or more credit graded internship with a grade of C or better. Make an appointment to meet with Katherine to generate ideas for your internship, or to approve one you already have in mind. Grades for the STPEC Internship requirement are based on a written analysis of your experience and observations. Therefore, you must have completed at least Core I, preferably Core 2, before you will be allowed to register for the internship requirement. Occasionally we accept prior internships or internships completed through other departments for the required internship. In order for such a course to count, it must be graded, worth three or more credits, and involve at least 100 hours of work. Regardless of how you plan to fulfill your internship requirement, you must have Katherine’s prior approval. Please don’t wait until your final semester to talk to Katherine, or you may find that you have to stick around for an extra semester!

Internships as Electives

We welcome and encourage STPEC students to do internships beyond the 3 credits required for the major. The University allows you to count up to 15 internship credits toward graduation. You can earn up to 15 credits in one placement, or you can complete two or more smaller internships. Students doing elective internships may work with the Faculty Sponsor of their choice. Students may earn elective internship credit before they have completed the Core Seminars.

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STPEC Sweatshirts, Hoodies and Zip Ups

We would love to order STPEC sweatshirts, hoodies or zip ups but we need a minimum of 12

prepaid orders before we can send it out. Sweatshirt $30

Hoodie $35 Zip Up $40

Check out the custom order form at https://goo.gl/forms/44rwiP2rh8Utwpyz2

Maya Jakubowski ‘20, and Ben Levine ‘18

STPEC T-Shirts

Spread the word about the STPEC major to your friends and colleagues.

T-shirts are available for purchase in the STPEC

office for just $10. Supporting a small local vendor, these quality cotton t-shirts are sweatshop free, promote the major and show your support for the program. Office Hours: Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The office closes at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

êêêSAVE THE DATEêêê

STPEC Red Star End of Semester Graduation

Ceremony!

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Dinner starts at 6:30 ê Red Star at 7:00 êêêParty continues afterêêê

Location TBA (Please check with the STPEC Office for details)

All STPEC students, staff, alums, and friends of STPEC are welome!

Come and say farewell to our graduating seniors!

PAID INTERNSHIP & COURSE CREDIT! Labor Studies and Union Semester at the

Murphy Institute at CUNY NY Union Semester is an innovate academic and internship program based out of The Murphy Institute at CUNY School of Professional Studies. For a semester, participants intern with a union or worker organization in New York City while earning an undergraduate or graduate certificate in Labor Studies. Host organizations pay for a monthly stipend, unlimited transit pass and scholarship that covers much of the tuition. For more information please go to http://www.unionsemester.org/ or pick up information at the STPEC office.

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To contribute photos or a brief write-up about your internship or other content of interest to the STPEC community, email stpec@sbs.umass.edu. The deadline for the next newsletter is mid-August 2017.

Spring 2017 Global Learning for Social Change

STPEC and UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTIN Semester Abroad In Argentina

STPEC Program E-27A Machmer Hall

240 Hicks Way University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003

Erick On-Sang and Daria Lipsitt

Daria Lipsitt at International Women’s Day March and Women’s Strike, March 8, 2017