I had a great week at the 2024 Media Aesthetics Summer Institute at Northwestern "Shared Grounds of Media Aesthetics and Ecology"! Also enjoyed the airport in Chicago and a side trip to Highland Park, IL.
art criticism/theory, art hxtory, hxstory, communication, screenwriting, poetry, non-fiction, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, interactive + graphic design, typography, architecture, film/video, photography, painting, drawing, screenprinting, ballet, figure skating, violin, guitar, singing/songwriting, piano, indie-rock, classical music, acting, fashion, travel, politics, economics, statistics, German, French, Spanish, Mandarin, vegan/vegetarianism, activism
I had a great week at the 2024 Media Aesthetics Summer Institute at Northwestern "Shared Grounds of Media Aesthetics and Ecology"! Also enjoyed the airport in Chicago and a side trip to Highland Park, IL.
June 9-16, 2024
I learned a lot at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., researching the border walls of the U.S.-Mexico border, Palestine/Israel, and the former Berlin Wall. Hope to return sometime to discover more in the archives!
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany, Spring 2022
History, Sociology
Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022-Present
Conversational GermanNorthwestern University
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Panel Chair and Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “The American Dream is thriving on reality TV: Examining Project Runway, success narratives, and a nation’s founding story.” Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 4-6 Oct 2024. (forthcoming)
Poster Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “Toward an Anti-Capitalist Self-Care: Self-care for students through work-life balance, community connection, and flexible time.” 2024 Upper Peninsula Teach and Learning Conference. “Embracing Change: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners,” Bay College, Escanaba, MI, 13-14 May 2024.
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “Toward an Anti-Capitalist Self-Care: Self-care for students through work-life balance, community connection, and flexible time.” 2024 Upper Peninsula Teach and Learning Conference. “Embracing Change: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners,” Bay College, Escanaba, MI, 13-14 May 2024.
Poster Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “Bauhaus, Burning Man, and Bohemia: Interfacing with the world through technology, philosophy, and aesthetics.” Graduate Student Government, “Graduate Research Colloquium,” Michigan Technological University, 26 Mar 2024.
Oral Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “Bauhaus, Burning Man, and Bohemia: Interfacing with the world through technology, philosophy, and aesthetics.” Graduate Student Government, “Graduate Research Colloquium,” Michigan Technological University, 26 Mar 2024.
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2024). “Bauhaus, Burning Man, and Bohemia: Interfacing with the world through technology, philosophy, and aesthetics.” Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Virtual Graduate Student Mini-Conference, 22-23 Mar 2024. (Online)
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2023). "Bobo/ETF Hipsters: Embracing creativity over commerce in [HBO's] Girls." Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 6-8 Oct 2023.
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2023). "Bourdieu's 'Distinction,' socio-economic class, and pop culture in first-year composition." Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 6-8 Oct 2023.
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2023). “All Dressed Up With Everywhere To Go: Fashion as a reflection of identity in the Atlantic Anthropocene.” 10th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture. “Fashion As Material Culture.” Organized by Gümüşhane University, Ankara Science University, and University of Évora. Gümüşhane Üniversitesi, Turkey. 15-16 Sept 2023. (Online)
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2022). “The French Concession as Contested Space: What aesthetics reveal about globalization in Xīntiāndi.” Arch Dalrymple III Department of History Graduate History Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (Virtual).
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2022). “Representations of War: How the Vietnam War shifted art from abstraction to (public) intervention.” History Graduate Student Association Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (Virtual).
Presenter. Johnson, E. (2021). “Performing Nationality: What the 1773 Boston Tea Party reveals about American identity,” Navigating Chaos. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History Graduate Student Association’s Conference. University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. 10 Apr 2021. (Virtual)
Co-presenter. Johnson, E. (2015). "From Writing Center to WRIT: Adding Reading & Technology Services to Our Writing Center." International Writing Centers Association Conference "Writing Center (r)Evolutions," Pittsburgh, PA, 9 Oct 2015.
Poster Presenter. Johnson, E. (2015). "Determination of 25-hydroxy Vitamin D in Human Tears and Blood Plasma using ELISA Assay Kit." MiCUP Poster Presentation, Michigan Technological University. Houghton, Michigan.
*IPEC Graduate Student Small Grant Award, Michigan Technological University, 2024
*Travel Grant, Graduate Student Government, Michigan Technological University, 2023
*Spring 2022 Graduate Student Presentation Grant, Central Michigan University, 2022
*Central Michigan University, Office of Study Abroad Scholarship, Spring 2022
*American Association of University Women – Women in Transition Scholarship, 2021-2022
*Albert Thomas and Brenda Jones Quick Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship, 2021
*European Union’s Erasmus+ exchange program grant, Spring 2021 (Central Michigan University and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)
I enjoyed presenting at and attending the Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference in Escanaba, Michigan, May 13 & 14, 2024! #uptlc2024
Coffee chat on April 19, 2024, at MTU Grad Commons. Graduate Student Government with guest math prof Robert Schneider.
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Graduate Student Government pottery painting night March 21, 2024.
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