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Title: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.. (2020 July/August)
Date: 2020-07
Collection: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.

Title: Interview of Dr. Walter Greason, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth University
Creator: Greason, Walter
Date: 2020-06-23
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Dr. Walter Greason, primary curator for Afrofuturist Design: From Ancient Dogon to Wakandan Futures exhibition and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth University, speaks about his work with Kurt Wagner, Director of the Monmouth University Library, creating a series of Afrofuturism displays within the Library. Dr. Greason talked about the origins of the exhibit and how this project aligns with engagement with black speculative...
Show moreDr. Walter Greason, primary curator for Afrofuturist Design: From Ancient Dogon to Wakandan Futures exhibition and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth University, speaks about his work with Kurt Wagner, Director of the Monmouth University Library, creating a series of Afrofuturism displays within the Library. Dr. Greason talked about the origins of the exhibit and how this project aligns with engagement with black speculative practice in his teaching and research. He is interviewed by Julian Chambliss, with whom he co-authored Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History.
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Title: Tee to Green. Vol. 51 no. 3 (2020 May/June/July)
Date: 2020-05
Collection: Tee to Green

Title: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.. (2020 May/June)
Date: 2020-05
Collection: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.

Title: Connecticut Clippings. Vol. 54 no. 1 (2020 April/May)
Date: 2020-04
Collection: Connecticut Clippings

Title: Tee to Green. Vol. 51 no. 2 (2020 March/April)
Date: 2020-03
Collection: Tee to Green

Title: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.. (2020 March/April)
Date: 2020-03
Collection: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.

Title: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.. (2020 February)
Date: 2020-02
Collection: The Newsletter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Inc.

Title: Interview of Dr. Michele Berger, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Berger, Michele
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Dr. Michele Berger, associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and former Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses what inspired her to become a Black speculative writer. She describes Zora Neale Hurston's impact on her work and how she introduces her students at UNC-Chapel Hill to Afrofuturism and Black speculative writing. In addition to offering a brief synopsis of her new novella Reenu-You, Berger describes the...
Show moreDr. Michele Berger, associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and former Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses what inspired her to become a Black speculative writer. She describes Zora Neale Hurston's impact on her work and how she introduces her students at UNC-Chapel Hill to Afrofuturism and Black speculative writing. In addition to offering a brief synopsis of her new novella Reenu-You, Berger describes the moment when Toshi Reagon brought Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower to UNC in opera form, which fostered an engaging environment for students and community members to connect with Afrofuturistic work. Berger is interviewed at the Zora Committee House in Eatonville, FL by Tiffany Pennamon, English doctoral student at the University of Florida.
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Title: Interview of community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus
Creator: Broaddus, Maurice
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He...
Show moreCommunity organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He explains what Afrofuturism means to him and how it parallels his activism regarding oral history, community engagement, and teaching. Maurice states "Afrofuturism offers us a chance to see ourselves" and that the Zora Neale Hurston's scholarship and Afrofuturism tenets both promote living and creating an authentic self.
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Title: Interview of fiction writer Iheoma Nwachukwu
Creator: Nwachukwu, Iheoma
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Iheoma Nwachukwu, fiction writer and former professional chess player who teaches in the Creative Writing department at Florida State University, is interviewed by doctoral student Kimberly Williams at Zora's place in Eatonville, Florida. Nwachukwu talks about how he fuses his Igbo Nigerian culture into speculative fiction that expands the notion of the precolonial vampire and witch. Nwachukwu posits that Afrofuturism provides Black youth a voice and window that Blackness and utopia can...
Show moreIheoma Nwachukwu, fiction writer and former professional chess player who teaches in the Creative Writing department at Florida State University, is interviewed by doctoral student Kimberly Williams at Zora's place in Eatonville, Florida. Nwachukwu talks about how he fuses his Igbo Nigerian culture into speculative fiction that expands the notion of the precolonial vampire and witch. Nwachukwu posits that Afrofuturism provides Black youth a voice and window that Blackness and utopia can coexist like in the film The Black Panther. He also discusses the literary, cultural critique of Afrofuturism in the African literature cannon and the relevance of Afrofuturism in Nigerian life. He identifies the tenets of Afrofuturism through Hurston's ethnography in Haiti and her work on Black consciousness.
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Title: Interview of author Tenea D. Johnson at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
Creator: Johnson, Tenea D.
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Tenea D. Johnson, award winning author and founder of Progress By Design, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Tenea speaks about her work, afrofuturism, and how her stories and songs create worlds to examine big questions. She defines speculative fiction anything that doesn't abide by the rules, that is not based in reality. Tenea says she hopes that...
Show moreTenea D. Johnson, award winning author and founder of Progress By Design, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Tenea speaks about her work, afrofuturism, and how her stories and songs create worlds to examine big questions. She defines speculative fiction anything that doesn't abide by the rules, that is not based in reality. Tenea says she hopes that afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction will become a greater force than just entertainment and that Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies influenced her the most as she demonstrated confidence not out of ego but of skill, exemplifying bravery and openness.
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Title: Interview of author Phenderson Djèlí Clark at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
Creator: Clark, P. Djèlí
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Award winning author and founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Mr. Clark shares how his time in Trinidad, his exposure to afro-creole folktales, Hindu stories, Muslim festivals as well as his exposure to Twilight Zone and old horror movies from his parents nurtured a deep interest...
Show moreAward winning author and founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Mr. Clark shares how his time in Trinidad, his exposure to afro-creole folktales, Hindu stories, Muslim festivals as well as his exposure to Twilight Zone and old horror movies from his parents nurtured a deep interest in the fantastic. Mr. Clark defines afrofuturism as something to do with the future, whether it is how Black people will exist in the future or futuristic ideas. He describes how his writing fits more with retro-afrofuturism, where you imbue the past with future elements and explore a past that never was. Mr. Clark says that afrofuturism offers a way to resist the kind of future in a world like now and how to form a resistance against it; it empowers people to imagine a different future, a possibility of a different future. He also talks about how afrofuturism extends beyond literary work into music and other creative forms.
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Title: Interview of Chesya Burke, author and doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida
Creator: Burke, Chesya
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Chesya Burke, doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida, describes #BlackGirlMagic and the ways Zora Neale Hurston embodies the phrase. As a writer in the Afrofuturist and horror genres, Burke discusses what it means to be at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival with other Black speculative writers. In addition, she talks about her work, Let's play white, and her "unwillingness to accept mediocrity." Burke is interviewed by Tiffany Pennamon, English doctoral...
Show moreChesya Burke, doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida, describes #BlackGirlMagic and the ways Zora Neale Hurston embodies the phrase. As a writer in the Afrofuturist and horror genres, Burke discusses what it means to be at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival with other Black speculative writers. In addition, she talks about her work, Let's play white, and her "unwillingness to accept mediocrity." Burke is interviewed by Tiffany Pennamon, English doctoral student at the University of Florida.
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Title: Interview of Dr. Isiah Lavender III, Professor of English at the University of Florida
Creator: Lavender, Isiah, III
Date: 2020-01-30
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Dr. Isiah Lavender III shares how he was introduced into science fiction, otherworldly phenomena, and Afrofuturism works during childhood. He talks about how he was an avid reader and utilized fiction for meaning making as he navigated racism. Dr. Lavender identifies Afrofuturism as related to AfroPessimism, utopia, and as a conduit to examine other projected worlds. He spotlights other genres like Indigenous Futurism and Latinx Futurism and links these genres back to Afrofuturism. Dr....
Show moreDr. Isiah Lavender III shares how he was introduced into science fiction, otherworldly phenomena, and Afrofuturism works during childhood. He talks about how he was an avid reader and utilized fiction for meaning making as he navigated racism. Dr. Lavender identifies Afrofuturism as related to AfroPessimism, utopia, and as a conduit to examine other projected worlds. He spotlights other genres like Indigenous Futurism and Latinx Futurism and links these genres back to Afrofuturism. Dr. Lavender discusses how Static Shock, Martian Chronicles, and the hip hop group the Clipping were influential in expanding his perception of Black culture and believes there are missing Black female authors who created Afrofuturism works between Zora Neale Hurston and Octavia Butler's legacy and would like to research those "missing links." Dr. Lavender is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams.
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Title: Interview of Dr. Kinitra Brooks, associate professor in English at Michigan State University
Creator: Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun
Date: 2020-01-29
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Dr. Kinitra Brooks, the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, explains how her New Orleans roots affected her research and life, making her more interested in the supernatural. She shares her definition of Afrofuturism and discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's legacy showcases aspects of Afrofuturism before the term was officially coined. Dr. Brook introduces her latest work in the area of conjure feminism, a study...
Show moreDr. Kinitra Brooks, the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, explains how her New Orleans roots affected her research and life, making her more interested in the supernatural. She shares her definition of Afrofuturism and discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's legacy showcases aspects of Afrofuturism before the term was officially coined. Dr. Brook introduces her latest work in the area of conjure feminism, a study exploring the various secrets of black southern and Caribbean women in terms of their spiritual work and practices. She speaks on how modern black women are looking to conjure women as a source of creative inspiration. Dr. Brooks is interviewed by Holly Baker.
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Title: Interview of Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, Associate Professor of Communication at Harris-Stowe State University
Creator: Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964-
Date: 2020-01-20
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, Associate Professor of Communication at Harris-Stowe State University and Executive Director of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, gives an interview following his keynote presentation regarding Afrofuturism at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Academic Conference in Eatonville, Florida. He discusses the history and emergence of the Black American Speculative Tradition, the work being done by his Black Speculative Arts Movement, his own mystic family legacies traced back to...
Show moreDr. Reynaldo Anderson, Associate Professor of Communication at Harris-Stowe State University and Executive Director of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, gives an interview following his keynote presentation regarding Afrofuturism at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Academic Conference in Eatonville, Florida. He discusses the history and emergence of the Black American Speculative Tradition, the work being done by his Black Speculative Arts Movement, his own mystic family legacies traced back to Africa, and his vision for the next iteration of Afrofuturism. Anderson is interviewed by Tiffany Pennamon, English doctoral student at the University of Florida.
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Title: Tee to Green. Vol. 51 no. 1 (2020 January/February)
Date: 2020-01
Collection: Tee to Green

Title: Barriers and Facilitators to the Utilization of the ACT SMART Implementation Toolkit in Community Agencies : A Qualitative Study
Creator: Sridhar, Aksheya
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Evidence-based practices (EBPs) have been shown to improve outcomes for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Wong et al., 2015). Research suggests that the utilization of these practices in community settings is varied (Paynter & Keen, 2015; Pickard, Meza, Drahota, & Brikho, 2018); however, the utilization of implementation guides may bridge the gap between research and practice (Drahota et al., 2017). The Autism Community Toolkit: Systems to Measure and Adopt Research-Based...
Show moreEvidence-based practices (EBPs) have been shown to improve outcomes for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Wong et al., 2015). Research suggests that the utilization of these practices in community settings is varied (Paynter & Keen, 2015; Pickard, Meza, Drahota, & Brikho, 2018); however, the utilization of implementation guides may bridge the gap between research and practice (Drahota et al., 2017). The Autism Community Toolkit: Systems to Measure and Adopt Research-Based Treatments (ACT SMART Toolkit; Drahota, Meza, & Martinez, 2014) is a web-based implementation toolkit developed to guide ASD implementation teams through the phases of EBP implementation in community agencies. This study examined the barriers and facilitators (collectively termed “determinants”) to the utilization of this toolkit, based on the perspectives of implementation teams at six ASD community agencies. Two independent coders utilized the adapted EPIS model (Drahota et al., 2017; Moulin et al., 2019) and the Technology Acceptance Model 3 (Venkatesh & Bala, 2008), to guide thematic analyses of participant interviews. Salient determinants were identified, and analyses highlighted two themes: (a) Inner Context Determinants to use of the toolkit (e.g., funding), and (b) Innovation Determinants (e.g., facilitation teams). Finally, determinants that differed across adapted EPIS phases of the toolkit were identified. Findings highlight areas of improvement for the ACT SMART Implementation Toolkit, as well as factors to facilitate the use of this implementation guide. Additionally, findings may inform the development, refinement, and utilization of implementation guides with the aim of increasing the uptake of evidence-based practices in community agencies providing services to children with autism spectrum disorder.
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Title: FROM SITTING TO LIVING : EXAMINING THE ROLE OF MEDITATION IN UNDERSTANDING THE EMOTION REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF MINDFULNESS
Creator: Lin, Yanli
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Mindfulness has received widespread interest for its purported benefits to emotional well-being. Despite a rapidly growing literature base supporting the salutary relationship between mindfulness and emotion regulation, little is known about how mindfulness confers its emotion regulatory benefits. A pertinent, yet underexplored, approach to addressing this question is to examine neural mechanisms involved in the effects of mindfulness training via meditative practice to “off-the-cushion”...
Show moreMindfulness has received widespread interest for its purported benefits to emotional well-being. Despite a rapidly growing literature base supporting the salutary relationship between mindfulness and emotion regulation, little is known about how mindfulness confers its emotion regulatory benefits. A pertinent, yet underexplored, approach to addressing this question is to examine neural mechanisms involved in the effects of mindfulness training via meditative practice to “off-the-cushion” changes in emotion regulation. The primary aim of the present study was therefore to determine the extent to which change in neural oscillatory activity (i.e., alpha and theta power) during mindfulness meditation related to subjective (i.e., self-reported negative affect) and neural (i.e., late positive potential [LPP]) measures of emotional reactivity elicited during a subsequent affective picture viewing task. Toward this end, a multimodal experimental paradigm was employed to test three predictions: 1) participants randomized to engage in brief guided mindfulness meditation, relative to those randomized to a control condition, would exhibit increased alpha and theta power during meditation relative to rest; 2) participants in the meditation group, but not those in the control group, would exhibit attenuated LPP responses and report lower negative affect during the picture viewing task; 3) the predicted increases in alpha and theta power during meditation would correlate with the predicted reductions in the LPP and self-reported negative affect during picture viewing. Contrary to expectations, the guided meditation did not produce demonstrable effects on alpha and theta power, the LPP, or self-reported negative affect relative to the control condition. Change in theta, but not alpha, power during meditation was, however, positively correlated with the early time window of the LPP, suggesting that change in neural activity during meditation may relate to subsequent emotion processing. Overall, the study demonstrated the utility of investigating the relationship between what occurs during mindfulness meditation and its purported effects on emotion regulation. Moreover, reflections on the unexpected nature of the null findings dovetail with the prevailing consensus that theoretical and methodological factors unique to the construct of mindfulness are integral in shaping the direction, design, and interpretability of mindfulness research.
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