Susan Harbage Page

CWC ANNOUNCES 2014-2015 FACULTY SCHOLARS

Chapel Hill, N.C. (September 22, 2014) – The Carolina Women’s Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is proud to announce its Faculty Scholars for the 2014–2015 academic year.  Dr. Joanne Hershfield and Susan Harbage Page from Women’s and Gender Studies department and Dr. Mary H. Palmer from the School of Nursing will use their funding to undertake projects that reflect the mission of the Center.

More info here:Carolina Women's Center

http://womenscenter.unc.edu/cwc-announces-2014-2015-faculty-scholars/

During Fall 2014, Joanne Hershfield will complete “Planting the First Seed: Making a Home for Formerly Incarcerated Women,” a documentary film about Benevolence Farm in Alamance county, North Carolina.

Thinking about how the border is often used as a backdrop for politicians to engage national issues of immigration and economics. My images emphasize not what has been put in in front of the backdrop by popular media outlets, but what is to the left of it, the right of it, far behind it. I purposefully leave it empty so the viewer is drawn to see the everyday space and landscape that is normally undifferentiated on our miniaturized backlit screens.

Border as Backdrop

Backdrop, theater, and performance are all ways in which I've come to see the U.S.–Mexico border in my travels there for almost ten years.