People
The students of THTR 3140 Performing Women
The curations here include students from the course in Fall 2021 - Fall 2023. Some students identify their contributions by their own name, some by pseudonyms, and some choose to stay anonymous.
Shayoni Mitra
Shayoni Mitra is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre at Barnard College whose research lies at the intersection of performance and politics. Professor Mitra teaches courses in performance and gender studies, and postcolonial and global theatre history. Performing Women arises from her interest in collaborative digital humanities projects that work to excavate the hidden histories of women in the public sphere.
Alicia Peaker
Alicia was the Senior Associate Director at the Digital Humanities Center. She received her Ph.D. in English with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Northeastern University. Alicia co-taught a workshop on metadata for student digital archives, managed the Omeka site, and designed and developed the custom theme for this site.
Jazmin Maço
Jazmin was the Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Digital Humanities Center from 2021-2023. Jazmin received their BA in Africana studies from Barnard College, where they were also a Mellon Mays fellow and a Barbara Horowitz ’55 Scholar of Distinction. Jazmin co-taught a workshop on metadata for student digital archives and supported students in submitting to the site.
Martha Tenney
Martha is the Director of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. She received her BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University and a MSIS from the University of Texas in Austin. Martha co-taught a workshop on archives and helped students in the Performing Women class to critically engage with archival materials and knowledge production.
Obden Mondésir
Obden was the Associate Director of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. He received his BA in English and History from St. John's University and dual master in Library Science and History from Queens College. Obden co-taught a workshop on archives and helped students in the Performing Women class to critically engage with archival materials and knowledge production.
Avi Cummings
Avi is the Program and Communications Director at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Avi has worked and organized for many years around racial justice and white anti-racist solidarity, prison abolition, wealth redistribution, and queer and trans liberation. Avi consulted on the use of the BCRW Feminist Ephemera collection and the history of BCRW.
Achiro P. Olwoch
Achiro P. Olwoch is a Ugandan writer, playwright and screenwriter currently living in exile in New York. She tells stories that start conversations, often writing about subjects that her part of the world calls forbidden. A former air hostess who hates flying, Achiro knows full well how to
turn uncomfortable situations into a story.
The name Achiro is short for Achirochan which means ‘the resilient one’. This best describes Achiro who was born in exile and when they returned lived in exile within her country because of the ongoing civil war in her homeland and now finds herself in exile. Regardless she keeps
going and turns every trial and triumph into a story.
When she is not writing, Achiro is reading. Like her favorite authors, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo and her late father, she delights in writing history and present day politics in story. Achiro is co-teaching the course with Shayoni Mitra for the Fall 2023 semester.
Eden Segbefia
Eden Segbefia is the Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Barnard College Digital Humanities Center during the 2023-2024 academic year. Eden received their BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a concentration in Feminist/Intersectional Science and Technology Studies from Barnard College. At Barnard, Eden was accepted into the Mellon Mays fellowship and received the Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Award for Design and Production and the Bessie Ehrlich prize for their senior thesis. Eden supported a workshop for the course on metadata and using Omeka S as a key tool in the digital humanities.
Cristy Danford
Cristy Danford is an Academic Systems Technologist for Instructional Media and Technology Services at Barnard. She administers a web hosting server for faculty and student research, and assists with administering digital collections and finding aids systems for the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. She has an MLIS from Wayne State University and has administered library systems in a variety of settings. Cristy co-taught a workshop for the course on metadata and using Omeka S, along with with Eden Segbefia, and assists with hosting and administration for this site.