Fellows come from all over the university, bringing their particular passions and living out the public purpose of their discipline through teaching and researching in, with and for community.
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The Engaged Faculty Fellowship supports the curricular development of two sequential sister courses: “Performance as Protest” and “Choreographing Community: Civic to Public & Socially Engaged Art-Making.” These courses of study examine the art and act of performance as influential models for social activism, civil disobedience and community mobilization. In their progression, the synthesis of scholarship and applied practice positions the performing body as a site of relational healing, empowerment and resistance to systemic injustices and erasures. This research-to-practice approach introduces action and participatory research methodologies, providing students with a comprehensive, experiential understanding of frameworks and strategies for facilitating the co-creation of knowledge and social action in collaborative, democratic learning environments. Concurrently, Russo is pursuing creative research centered on the community archival of genealogies of pain among womxn, orchestrating local grassroots and non-profit partnerships for free, public programming both on campus and in the field. Said research is intended to collect data for advancing trauma-informed pedagogies for body-based artforms.