Faculty Accomplishments

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Vo, D., Telegrafi, F. (2025). Local Film Night at LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA, Sept. 11, 2025. Guest artist presentation, including screenings of recent films made in and around Western Massachusetts, and a talk-back with the audience. Co-presented with Flonia Telegrafi.


Telegrafi, F. (2025) Panelist on The Producers: Behind the Scenes with Western Mass Movie Makers, part of the Pioneer Valley Picture Show exhibit at Deerfield Memorial Hall.


Telegrafi, F. (2025) Local Film Night at LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA, Sept. 11, 2025. Guest artist presentation, including screenings of recent films made in and around Western Massachusetts, and a talk-back with the audience. Co-presented with Dien Vo. https://thelavacenter.org/events/lava-film-night-2025-09-11/


Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2023-2026


Faculty Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, 2022-2023


Australian Research Council Indigenous Discovery Project (Partner Investigator), 2020-2023


Australian Research Council Linkage Project (Research Associate), 2021-2024


Five Colleges’ Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “Gathering at the Crossroads” Project. $49,660 for artists’ residency and $12,480 for course redesign (2021-22); $10,000 for course redesign (2020-21)


Included in a Australian Research Council (Australia) Grant via agreement with the University of Melbourne for the project "Indigenous Storytelling and the Living Archive of Aboriginal Knowledge." The project is for 3 years. (2020)


Faculty Fellowship (2019), Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology (SIMA)