Conference Presentations
A. Masilela (2019) "Developing Liberatory Curricula in the Martial Arts: Anti-Racism and Beyond"
- Martial Arts Studies Research Network Annual Conference at Chapman University in Orange, CA | May 23-24, 2019
A. Masilela (2019) "Hands that hurt and heal: Trainer as "Care-giver" and Trainee as "Cared-for" in Martial Arts and Self-Defense Practice"
- Taking Care: A Conference for Engaging the Politics, Process, and Ethics of Care Work at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA | May 3-4, 2019
A. Masilela (2019) "Considering Context for the Development of LIberatory Curricula in the Martial Arts"
- American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2019 in Washington, DC | April 5, 2019
A. Masilela (2016) “Migration, Segregation, and the Proliferation of Martial Arts in the Western United States: An Overview”
- Association of Washington Geographers Annual Meeting 2016 in Seattle, WA | May 21, 2016
A. Masilela (2014) “Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in the Northern Plains”
- American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2014 in Tampa, FL | April 8, 2014
A. Masilela (2014) “Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in the Northern Plains”
- 3rd Annual College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Forum on Human Rights: "Engendering Human Rights" at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA | February 28, 2014
- Awarded Best Graduate Student Presentation
A. Masilela (2012). "Conservation in Crisis: A Story of Community Resistance Against Hydraulic Fracturing in the Yellow Creek Conservation Zone"
- South Eastern Division of the Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting in Asheville, NC | November 18-20, 2012
A. Masilela, Z. Afshar, T. Iwase and M. Turner (2010). “A GIS-Based Analysis of Nuisance Properties in the Indiana Borough: 2007 & 2009 |An Ongoing Study)”.
- Undergraduate Research at the Capitol Event, sponsored by the Legislative Office for Research Liaison in Harrisburg, PA | October 5, 2010
- 5th Annual Undergraduate Scholars Forum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA | April 1, 2010
- Tied 1st for Best Poster from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Presentation to the Indiana Borough Police and the Borough Planning Department Indiana, PA | April 24, 2010
A. Masilela (2008). “Digitally Re-mastered: Relearning the Nation's Highway System Through Computer Generated Simulations”.
- The 16th Annual University of Buffalo National McNair Research Conference at SUNY Buffalo, NY | July 2008
- McNair Scholars Program Summer Research Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA | June 2008
Guest Lectures
- "Introduction to QGIS" presented for GEOG 381: Mapping and Health | Spring 2018
- "Gendered Discourses of Public Space: Utilizing softball as liberatory praxis and a conduit for feminist political organizing" presented in GEOG 476: Women and the City | Winter 2017
- "Careers in GIS: Selling yourself in a world of non-geographers" presented in GEOG 360: Intro to GIS | Spring 2016
CSSCR Workshops
- "Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS" | Winter 2019, Spring 2019
- "Making Maps with Tableau" | Spring 2018
- "Introduction to SPSS" | Winter 2018, Fall 2018
Workshops Attended
- "Presenting Data and Information: A One-Day Course by Edward Tufte" | April 19, 2010
- Student Representative at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Allies (PASSHE LGBTQIA) Consortium, Penn State University, State College, PA | October 30-31, 2009
- Student Representative and Executive Committee Panelist at the PASSHE LGBTQIA Consortium Leadership Conference and Executive Committee Meeting, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA | October 2-3, 2009
Panels
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, WS 1824: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | November 14, 2012
- Point Park University, Sociology of SOC 202: Gender and Sexuality conducted by Rachael Goss, M.A., Pittsburgh, PA | February 2, 201
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania Safe Zone Training, conducted by Melinda Cowels, MA and Dr. Lynne Alvine, Ph.D.| November 12, 2009