Denise A. Harrison
Education
Miami University, PhD., course work completed
M.A., English, Miami University, 2001.
Master’s Thesis: Black Transatlantic Narratives: Rhetorics of Shifting Identities
B.A., English, The University of Akron, 1997.
Undergraduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Akron, 1996.
Academic Honors
Student Assessment Services, Accessibly You Recognition Award, 2018 and 2019.
Kent State University, Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement (OEECE) Recognition for Service Learning, Spring 2010.
Publications
The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal
#BlackLivesMatter: Intersectionality, Art, Violence, and the Theatre of the Oppressed, authors Denise A. Harrison, Dianne Kerr (Kent State University, Emeritus), Linda Hoeptner-Poling (Kent State University), Yuko Kurahashi (Kent State University), Evonne Gould (former Kent State University student), Denise Bedford (Georgetown U.) Laura Fong (U of Ottawa) and Alexis Blavos (Cortland) Nov. 20, 2019.
Featured in an article on Prison to Cradle Pipeline: Lifting the Veil of Race and Class, Dec. 2019.
Professor Denise Harrison Shares Knowledge and Perspectives in Emotional Exhibit
On Parade: Jim Crow Though the Generations. Harrison, Denise. Kent State University, School of Theatre and Dance, Parade Playbill. Feb. 21-March1, 2020.
“Woman” (poem) Stories and Poems from Akron, The Akros Review 24/25 Spring1995.
“Woman” (poem), “Rite of Passage” (poem), The Akros Review 21, Spring 1993.
Scholarship and Activities:
Susan B. Anthony Foundation: Quilt Project
Taught Upward Bound, Summer 2019.
Assisted and taught the Kent State University Upward Bound class in making quilt squares. Submitted to the Susan B. Anthony 2020 Quilt Project, Summer 2019.
https://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/2020quiltproject/index.php/gallery/
Susan B. Anthony Foundation: Quilt Project
Submitted, 12 “Women of Color” in history quilt squares, to the Susan B. Anthony 2020 Quilt Project, Nov. 2019.
https://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/2020quiltproject/index.php/gallery/
Susan B. Anthony Foundation: Quilt Project
Assisted and taught the Peace By Piece Quilters in making quilt squares to submit to the Susan B. Anthony 2020 Quilt Project, in cooperation with the Akron Public Library’s TechZone@Main, Maker Space. Dec. 2019
https://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/2020quiltproject/index.php/gallery/
Exhibitions:
Diptych Quilts Motherland Pre-Colonialism and Motherland Post-Colonialism, Kent State Museum July 18, 2019—May 17, 2020
"Cradle to Prison Pipeline: Lifting the Veil of 'Race' and Class.” Uumbaji Gallery,
Kent State University, Sept. 2019.
Great Lakes Black Authors Expo & Writers Conference, Quilt Exhibition, John S. Night Center, Oct. 5-6, 2019.
#Translivesmatter and Resurrection: Love is love, is Love, is Love, Is Love art quilt.
Exhibited at the Queer Voices: An Art Fashion and Performance Showcase.
KSU Museum, Rockwell Hall, Dec. 2019.
Lecture on #Blacklivesmatter Quilt, Student Multicultural Center (SMC), Kent State University, April 2019. The quilt hung in the SMC until Fall 2019.
Quilting the African Continent: Motherland Pre-Colonialism and Motherland Post-Colonialism. Kent State University Museum, Nov. 8, 2019.
Community Engaged Learning, University College. Hunger and Homelessness Week Panelist, Hunger and Homelessness Documentary, Nov. 21, 2019.
The School of Theatre and Dance, Parade cast, production staff and crew presentation.
Parade, article Jim Crow Through the Generations, Spring 2020.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Kent State International Commemorating Conflicts and Violence: Building a Sustainable Peace, Commemorating and Memorializing Peace Building with Quilts: and Signs of the Times Oct. 24-27, 2019. This is an interdisciplinary presentation, Art and Activism. Co-presenters are Debra Calhoun, Kent State University, Stark campus, PAS., and Dr. Linda Hoeptner Poling, Art faculty, Kent State University. Presented 3 quilt panels remembering Kent University State, May 4, 1970, Jackson State, In MemoriamMay1,1970 and Unfinished: Building Sustainable Peace.
Disrupters: The Democratic Activism of Women of Color. Seneca Falls Biennials Dialogues, Presenters, Denise A. Harrison, MA., Yuko Kurahashi, PhD., and Dulce Gray, PhD. Seneca Falls 2020 Virtual Dialogues. Fall 2020.
Black Suffragettes: One Person, No Vote. Africans in the Atlantic World Conference, April 2020. Postponed, Fall 2020.
Cradle to Prison Pipeline: Lifting the Veil of “Race” & Class, Uumbaji Gallery, Fall 2019.
Trans Lives Matter and Resurrection: Love is Love, Is Love, Is Love, Is Love Art Quilt.
Exhibited in the Queer Voices: An Art Fashion and Performance Showcase. Kent State University Museum, Rockwell Hall, Spring 2019.
Lecture and Dialogue: #BlackLivesMatter Quilt, Student Multicultural Center, Kent State University, Spring 2019.
Quilting: In Our Mother’s Garden: African American Quilters Art and Activism. Uumbaji Gallery, Kent State University, Dec. 2018.
Black Lives Matter: Intersectionality, Art, Violence and Theatre of the Oppressed. Presenters: Denise A. Harrison, Yuko Kurahashi, Dianne Kerr, Alexis Blavos, Evonne Gould Fields, Denise Bedford, Laura Fong, Linda Hoeptner-Poling, Fall 2018
Lecture; History of Gees Bend: African American Women Quilters, Summit Lake Community Center, Fall 2018.
The Summit On Women: Kent State University, Dangling the Carrot: How the Academy Stifles the Careers of Women of Color, Spring 2018.
4th Biennial African and Global Atlantic World Conference, Sankofa: How Women Have Historically Resisted Tyranny, as Reflected in the Trumpian Age. Presenters: Denise A. Harrison, Shannon Christian Syed and Pamela Takayoshi, Spring 2018.
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