Heather Ann Thompson, a
professor of history in the Afro-
American and African Studies
Department, was awarded a Pulitzer
Prize in history for her novel “Blood
in the Water: The Attica Prison
Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.”
In an email interview,
Thompson — who is also in the
Residential College Social Theory
and Practice Program — wrote she
found out about her award during
class and looked at her students in
disbelief.
“I am so deeply grateful for
this, it’s hard to put into words,”
she wrote. “It is amazing to have
one’s work recognized for sure,
but, mostly and overwhelmingly, I
am grateful because the story of all
that the men inside of Attica really
endured back in 1971 — prisoners and
guards alike — is being honored.”
In a University of Michigan
press release, President Mark
Schlissel said the award shows how
dedicated University faculty are to
their work.
“Dr. Heather Ann Thompson’s
Pulitzer Prize in history is an
outstanding example of our faculty’s
talent and commitment to academic
rigor being recognized at the highest
levels,” he said. “I am proud to
congratulate her on this amazing
achievement.”
Thompson’s book highlights the
Sept. 9, 1971 incident, in which nearly
1,300 prisoners took over the prison
and held guards and employees
hostage to bargain for better living
conditions. The takeover lasted four
days and ended when New York state
troopers shot and killed 39 prisoners
and hostages and injured hundreds
of others.
After the demonstration, the
state of New York tried only the
prisoners and did not provide any
legal or financial support to the
families of victims or survivors.
In her novel, Thompson
recounts the demonstration and the
aftermath and places the event in the
context of the civil rights movements
in the United States.
“Drawing from more than
a decade of extensive research,
historian Heather Ann Thompson
sheds new light on every aspect of
the uprising and its legacy, giving
voice to all those who took part in
this forty-five-year fight for justice:
prisoners, former hostages, families
of the victims, lawyers and judges,
and state officials and members
of law enforcement,” Thompson’s
publisher wrote.
A New York Times review
by Mark Oppenheimer wrote
Thompson made the entire event
thought-provoking by focusing on
the inmate conditions and smaller
details of the uprising that many
would never consider.
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Kellogg’s Plant Tour
WHAT: The Food Industry
Student Association will be
hosting this tour of the cereal
brand’s Battle Creek plant.
WHO: Michigan Engineering
WHEN: 7:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Kellogg’s Plant, Battle
Creek
Representatives
from
the
University of Michigan Ginsberg
Center presented on their new
efforts to improve community
outreach at the weekly Monday
meeting of the Senate Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs. SACUA also appointed
its next vice chair, discussed the
possibility of “immediate past
chair” as a sanctioned position and
passed a resolution supporting
faculty education on student
mental health.
Ginsberg Director Mary Jo
Callan said the Ginsberg Center,
which will be celebrating its 20th
anniversary next month, has
undergone a strategic planning
process to contemplate its future
efforts regarding its mission of
community-engaged learning.
“What does the University need
us to be now?” she said. “We have
a rich history, we are an endowed
center, we’re an important asset to
the University, but what is needed
now, 20 years later?”
As a part of the strategic
planning,
Callan
said
the
center spoke with faculty and
community leaders and received
fairly consistent feedback on
certain
topics,
including
the
need to educate students before
embarking
on
community
projects.
“What we heard: One, we
need to do more to prepare
students before they engage with
the community, really helping
students understand their own
identities, where they fit in, their
own power and privilege,” she
said. “Because when they go into
communities, and especially social
sector organizations … they’re
disproportionately working with
folks who are marginalized and
our students disproportionately
are not.”
Callan said other areas of
concern
included
cultivating
and
maintaining
relationships
between
faculty
members
and
community
leaders
and
facilitating
these
connections
between
the
University
and
community organizations.
“We’re not trying to be the only
door; we want to be a clear door in
and out of the University,” Callan
said.
Additionally, Callan noted many
community and faculty members
felt the center prioritized student
needs over the center’s needs in
the past, which she explained
they hope to avoid in the future
through renewed efforts.
In
conjunction
with
this
feedback, the Ginsberg Center
has
recently
hired
Neeraja
Aravamudan as the assistant
director for engaged learning
with a primary focus on balancing
community
engagement.
Aravamudan
was
also
in
attendance at the meeting and
explained how they strive to
commit to all three components of
the Ginsberg Center participation:
students, faculty and community
partners.
“One of the other things we’re
doing and we’ve been doing is
that in every place that we are, we
mention all of them,” Aravamudan
said. “One of the things that’s
really been happening among
our staff is having conversations
across those people that are facing
the different stakeholders. Our
communication, no matter which
one of us goes out, is that it’s a
shared voice … We recognize that
each stakeholder has different
interests but that we need to be
aware that they’re all at play.”
SACUA selects vice chair of body,
discusses goals for Ginsberg Center
Members also pass resolution stating Senate Assembly’s support of student health
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change and uncertainty.
WHO: Learning and
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WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Administrative
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WHAT: Soloists and chamber
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