{"id":7166,"date":"2021-09-27T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:59:48","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-shawn-dufrene-completes-summer-research-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-shawn-dufrene-completes-summer-research-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Shawn Dufrene Completes Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/05\/Shawn-Dufrene-McNair-Acceptance-Announcements-2020.png\" alt=\"Photo of Shawn Dufrene next to text congratulating her with red textured border.\" title=\"Shawn Dufrene McNair Acceptance Announcements 2020\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Eastern Washington University student <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/2019-2020-cohort\/shawn-dufrane\/\">Shawn Dufrene<\/a>! Shawn has completed her summer research internship.&nbsp;Shawn is a senior majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Africana Studies with a minor in History. She is studying African American History as well as what it means to be white in America. Her goal is to become a professor of African American Studies. In 2019 she presented historical research for the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference and the EWU Symposium. She is a volunteer docent at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and an officer in EWU&#8217;s Black Student Union. For her 2020 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship, Shawn researched Malcolm X&#8217;s racial identity development under Dr. Okera Nsombi, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations Eastern Washington University student Shawn Dufrene! Shawn has completed her summer research internship.&nbsp;Shawn is a senior majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Africana Studies with a minor in History. She is studying African American History as well as what it means to be white in America. Her goal is to become a professor of &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Shawn Dufrene Completes Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-shawn-dufrene-completes-summer-research-internship\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Shawn Dufrene Completes Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,338,385,240,26,27,127,34,222],"tags":[269,287,154,134,286,98,232],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-2020-cohort","category-2020-summer-mcnair-research-internships","category-africana-studies-all-majors","category-history","category-mcnair-mentors","category-mentor","category-research","category-scholars","category-shawn-dufrene","tag-africana-studies","tag-dr-okera-nsombi","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-interdisciplinary-studies","tag-mentor","tag-summer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37525,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/37525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}