IRENE LÓPEZ PH.D.
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The Lydia Project - Silent No More

Introduction to Time Out Grant Blog

​When I was very young, my mother left my father. He had just beaten her pretty badly, and in the brief moment my father stepped outside, she ran frantically into my room and told me that we had to go and that we had to go NOW. We ended up at my aunt’s place, who hid us in her trailer, and drove us the next day out from New York to Florida. I spent that summer living in a motor home, bathing in public parks, and on the run from my father. Soon afterwards, however, we returned to New York because my father threatened to kill himself if my mother did not return. Current estimates are that, in Puerto Rico, a woman is killed every week, making it a site with the highest per capita femicide rate in the world for girls and women over the age of fourteen (ACLU, nd). This year I have been fortunate to receive a generous grant, called the Time Out Grant, from Vassar College (my alma mater) that will allow me create a series of art-based photovoice workshops, to be completed during my sabbatical, that would help document the experiences of survivors of gender-based violence in Puerto Rico. The ultimate goal would be to use art to increase awareness about this issue and in order to facilitate social change - so that no one could say, as they did to my mother, “we didn’t know” or “it couldn’t have been that bad”. I have three broad goals for my Time out Grant 1) to increase my fluency in Spanish 2) to learn more about domestic violence (to help myself and others) and 3) to use my increased fluency and knowledge to do a photography project for survivors of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. I begin this blog with some musings on goal #2  - as goal #1 is one that continues to unfurl and goal #3 will hopefully come into fruition in October.

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Contact Information:

Irene López, PhD.
Kenyon College
Department of Psychology
203 North College Road
Samuel Mather 302
Gambier, Ohio 43022
United States


OFFICE: (740) 427-5373
FAX:     (740) 427-5237 
EMAIL: lopezi@kenyon.edu
Twitter: @ProfIreneLopez


  • About Me
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Philosophy >
      • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
      • Samples of Innovative Teaching
    • My Teaching Blog
    • International Teaching >
      • Kenyon Copenhagen (2021)
      • Franklin University Switzerland
      • Ecuador - USFQ (2020)
      • Fulbright in Hungary! (Spring 2020)
      • Saudi Arabia - Effat University (2016)
      • Kenyon in Rome (2012) >
        • Snapshots of Rome
        • Rome >
          • Visit to Insane Asylum (Santa Maria della Pieta)
        • Travel throughout Italy >
          • Abruzzo
          • Pompeii
          • Venice
          • Florence
          • Siena
          • Fumone
      • Semester At Sea (2010) >
        • Japan
        • China
        • Viet Nam
        • India
        • Mauritius
        • South Africa
        • Ghana
        • Brazil
    • Teaching Awards >
      • Henry David International Mentoring Award (2015)
      • Trustee Teaching Award
    • Students >
      • Need a Recommendation?
  • Research
    • Areas of Interest >
      • Acculturation
      • Ataques de Nervios
      • Class
      • Skin Color
    • CV
    • Citations >
      • Academia.Edu
      • Research Gate
  • Service
    • Focus Groups with Syrian Refugees (2014)
    • APA Delegation to Cuba (2012)
  • Photovoice
    • Photovoice in Puerto Rico
    • Photovoice in Haiti
    • Photovoice in the Dominican Republic
    • Photography Project with Rania Matar
  • Photography
  • Review Materials
  • Blogs