New Books In Communications

Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alternatives to this model and who regularly publish scholarship that emerges out of community activism, who co-write or co-edit books, and who actively seek out and create new models of authorship and research. Amherst Presidential Scholar Karma Chávez (UT-Austin) and Amherst College Press authors Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State) and Edward Paulino (John Jay) discuss their past publication experiences and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative scholarship. This panel is in honor of Open Access Week 2022 (Oct. 24-30). Participants: Karma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. The author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Washington, 2021), Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Illinois, 2013), and the b