The 2021 Doctoral Symposium was held on Thursday November 4th and Friday November 5th via zoom. This year’s theme was “Doing Dissertations Differently” and included two keynote speakers. Dr. Beki Dube, a visiting scholar from South Africa held a presentation entitled “Decoloniality: A Quest for Identity in Knowledge Production. Perspectives from Global South” and Dr. Jill Perry, Executive Director of CPED held a presentation on “Dissertations in Practice.”
The 2021 Alice P. Naylor Award was presented to Dr. Alex McCallister for his dissertation entitled “ Space Invasion in the Academic Library: A Poststructural Analysis using Discourse, Power/Knowledge, and Biopower.”