CSSCR Workshops
"Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS" | Winter 2019, Spring 2019
"Making Maps with Tableau" | Spring 2018
"Introduction to SPSS" | Winter 2018, Fall 2018
"Making Maps with Tableau" | Spring 2018
"Introduction to SPSS" | Winter 2018, Fall 2018
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
"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
Conference Presentations
A. Masilela (2019) "Developing Liberatory Curricula in the Martial Arts: Anti-Racism and Beyond"
A. Masilela (2019) "Hands that hurt and heal: Trainer as "Care-giver" and Trainee as "Cared-for" in Martial Arts and Self-Defense Practice
A. Masilela (2019) "Considering Context for the Development of LIberatory Curricula in the Martial Arts"
A. Masilela (2016) “Migration, Segregation, and the Proliferation of Martial Arts in the Western United States: An Overview”
A. Masilela (2014) “Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in the Northern Plains”
A. Masilela (2014) “Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in the Northern Plains”
A. Masilela (2012). "Conservation in Crisis: A Story of Community Resistance Against Hydraulic Fracturing in the Yellow Creek Conservation Zone"
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)”.
A. Masilela (2008). “Digitally Re-mastered: Relearning the Nation's Highway System Through Computer Generated Simulations”.
- Martial Arts Studies Research Network Annual Conference 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 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
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
- A conference focusing on user-friendly data representation, intellectually stimulating oral presentations, and intuitive visual communication
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, 2010
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Safe Zone Training, conducted by Melinda Cowels, MA and Dr. Lynne Alvine, Ph.D.; November 12, 2009
Point Park University, Sociology of SOC 202: Gender and Sexuality conducted by Rachael Goss, M.A., Pittsburgh, PA; February 2, 2010
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Safe Zone Training, conducted by Melinda Cowels, MA and Dr. Lynne Alvine, Ph.D.; November 12, 2009