This year we will host Mindy Fullilove as our Ridenour Fellow and she will speak about community trauma in the context of the current economic crisis. She will be in Blacksburg 30 April and 1 May. This event is made possible by funds generously made over to SPIA in honor of our colleague Minnis Ridenour. Dr Fullilove will draw upon her longstanding interest in healing traumatized urban communities. In her work she has studied urban ‘renewal’, AIDS, the crack epidemic, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina as events that have so disoriented community networks and resources that they produce traumatized neighborhoods vulnerable to further social malaise, new challenges reverberate almost uncontrollably through such places. Indeed the concept of place and its links to community resilience are central to her work as she describes both in Rootshock and The House of Joshua.
Dr Fullilove describes herself in the following terms on a website:
“Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College (AB, 1971) and Columbia University (MS, 1971; MD 1978). She is a board certified psychiatrist, having received her training at New York Hospital-Westchester Division (1978-1981) and Montefiore Hospital (1981-1982).
After several years of work as a community psychiatrist, Dr. Fullilove joined the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at its founding in 1986. She moved to New York in 1990 and has continued to study AIDS and other problems of inner-city neighborhoods. Her work on AIDS is featured in Jacob Levenson’s The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS in Black America. Most recently, with support of a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, she has studied the long-term consequences of urban renewal for African American people. As part of that work, she co-founded NYC RECOVERS, an alliance of organizations concerned with the social and emotional recovery of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11. This project provided the data for her [...] book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, June 2004, Ballantine Books.
She has published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs. She is the author of The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. She has received many awards for her work including being named a “National Associate” by the National Academy of Science in 2003, being among the “Best Doctors in New York,” and receiving two honorary doctorates (Chatham College, 1999, and Bank Street College of Education, 2002). Perhaps her most treasured honor was being selected to give the Commencement Address by the 2002 Graduating Class of Hampshire College, which included her youngest child, Molly (www.hampshire.edu).”
You can read some of the recent work from her research team at:
http://www.rootshock.org/reading-about-displacement
Mindy Fullilove talks about her emphasis upon community healing, upon place, and upon stories in a brief interview at:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/sandt/2004_october/place.html
One of her stories from her work healing communities traumatized by AIDS is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVfBJFXzLU
Dr Fullilove’s explanation of the significance of urban renewal in community trauma is outlined in brief at:
http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/21024.pdf
Dr Fullilove’s response to 9/11 is reported at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol27/vol27_iss8/Pg5-2708-new.pdf
There is a brief commentary on celebrating the first anniversary of 9/11 with a community health day at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/02/mindyFullilove/mindyFullilove_MSTR.mov
Her discussion of the misuse of eminent domain, Eminent Domain & African Americans: What is the Price of the Commons?, may be found at:
http://www.castlecoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=113
The work of her team on responding to the current economic recession was recently discussed in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/realestate/19njzo.html?_r=2
Schedule of Events:
Meetings with groups of students as follows to explain the significance of Dr Fullilove’s work. Feel free to come along to any you wish and direct any students to those that are convenient to them.
Masters in Urban and Regional Planning Students, Architecture Annex 114, Wednesday 15 April, 11:00a
Institute for Policy and Governance graduates and researchers, IPG Seminar room Tuesday 21 April, 11:00a
Architecture students, Cowgill 300, Tuesday 21 April, 6:00p
Urban Affairs and Planning undergraduates, Architecture Annex, Room 7, Tuesday 21 April, 7:00p
PhD in Planning, Governance, and Globalization students, Graduate Life Center, Room D, Thursday 23 April, 12:30p
Masters in Public Administration and PhD in Public Administration and Public Affairs students, Thomas Conner House, Tuesday 28 April 11:30a
Tuesday 28 April, 5-8pm. Event at Gainsboro Public Library, Roanoke, involving students and faculty from SPIA and from Landscape Architecture. Studio work on Roanoke will be presented to the local community and Dr Fullilove will be involved in the discussion of these projects.
Wednesday 29 April. 6pm. Dr Fullilove will give a lecture at Gainsboro Public Library - ‘Roanoke’s experience ripples throughout the nation’
Thursday 30 April. 5 pm. Holden Auditorium, Virginia Tech Blacksburg. Dr Fullilove will give a public lecture, ‘Community trauma in the context of the current economic crisis.’
Friday 1 May. 11 am.Squires Brush Mountain B, Virginia Tech Blacksburg. Seminar with Dr Fullilove to discuss her work. Open to graduate students and faculty.
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