Hazel Dick Leonard Faculty Fellowship
A Faculty Fellowship program at Simmons University, designed to foster a community of scholars engaged in public-oriented research, scholarly, and artistic projects.
This innovative program gathers eight faculty members from diverse disciplines and cohorts to collaborate on projects, ranging from serving historically marginalized communities to making scholarly and artistic contributions accessible to the wider public. Faculty members' projects span an array of scholarly formats, including books-in-progress, articles, and book chapters.
Hazel Dick Leonard Faculty Fellows
Fellows
Naresh Agarwal
Professor and Director of Information Science & Tech Concentration
Abel Djassi Amado
Associate Professor
Suzanne Leonard
Professor and Program Director for Gender and Cultural Studies
Lydia Ogden
Adjunct & Research Affiliate
Cherie Ramirez
Associate Teaching Professor
Jeffrey Steen
Assistant Professor
Recent Interviews with Faculty Fellows
Advancing Harm Reduction: The Case for Overdose Prevention Centers
A conversation with Jeffrey Steen, Assistant Professor in the Simmons University School of Social Work.
Choosing Happiness: Uncovering the Journey to Happiness
An interview with Professor Naresh Agarwal from the School of Library and Information Science.
Exploring Immigrant Stories: Being, Longing, Surviving and Thriving
A conversation with Hugo Kamya, Professor in the Simmons University School of Social Work and Associate Director of the Center for Innovation in Clinical Social Work.
"Choosing Happiness" An Interview with Naresh Agarwal
This is a conversation between Naresh Agarwal, Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences and Director of Information Science and Tech Concentration at Simmons University, and Taylor Eubanks, graduate student in the Gender and Cultural Studies program...
"Boston's Welfare Rights Movement" An Interview with Tatiana M.F. Cruz
Below is a conversation with historian Tatiana M.F. Cruz, Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies at Simmons University. Talking with Taylor Eubanks, graduate student of Gender and Cultural Studies, Professor...
"Narrative Practice as Tapestry" An Interview with Hugo Kamya
The following interview between Professor Hugo Kamya from the School of Social Work at Simmons University and Taylor Eubanks, graduate student of Gender and Cultural Studies, discusses Professor Kamya's work on narrative practice and how our stories get told. What...
“When Does Resilience Turn into Epistemic Injustice?” An Interview with Renada Goldberg
The following conversation took place between Dr. Renada Goldberg, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Simmons University, and Taylor Eubanks, graduate student in the Gender and Cultural Studies program. Professor Goldberg talks about her current project for...
"'Healthy Together': Self Management Program for African American Men" An Interview with Vanessa Robinson-Dooley
The following conversation takes place between Dr. Vanessa Robinson-Dooley, Associate Professor at Simmons University's School of Social Work, and Taylor Eubanks, graduate student in the Gender and Cultural Studies program. Dr. Robinson-Dooley talks through the development and application of the...