TFTV Impact Report 2021/2022

RESEARCH IN THE ARTS
Human rights activist Isabel Garcia is interviewed for the documentary Las Mujeres de Manzo. Photo by Leslie Epperson
• Associate Professor Michael Mulcahy received funding from the University of Arizona Research, Innovation
and Impact Production Grant Program and the College of Fine Arts Small Grants Program to support the
development of Making Arizona, a new documentary video series profiling everyday Arizonans dealing with
the major challenges the state - and country - face, including climate change, drought, extreme heat and fire.
• In order to better serve students identifying as transgender or non-binary, Associate Professor of Practice
Darnell T. Roulhac received funding to study and teach gender-affirming speech and voice-training. Roulhac
studied gender-affirming care, medical considerations, and voice feminization and masculinization tools.
• Professor Yuri Makino received funding to further her work researching American healthcare for a featurelength
documentary entitled America’s Health. In the film, Makino examines the disruptors transforming
American healthcare today, one community at a time.
• Professor Lisanne Skyler received funding from the University of Arizona Research, Innovation and Impact
Production Grant Program, the College of Fine Arts Small Grants Program, the Ray and Wyn Richie Evans
Foundation and the Kadima Foundation in support of her documentary This Side of Midnight. The film,
produced by Erin Wright (The New Bauhaus), explores the generation of creators who grew out of the 1980s
New York club scene as the writers, visual artists, performers, designers, musicians, and filmmakers who made
culture flourish when the city was economically crippled.
• Professor Beverly Seckinger was part of a team awarded a production seed grant from the University of
Arizona Office for Research, Innovation and Impact for Las Mujeres de Manzo, an upcoming film profiling the
work of four long-time Chicana feminist activists at the forefront of immigration rights organizing in Southern
Arizona: Isabel Garcia, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Guadalupe Castillo, and Margo Cowan. Seckinger’s team
members include Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies Michelle Téllez, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese Associate Professor Ana Cornide, and Trayce Peterson from the College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences.