Courses
Listed as Equity & Power, Creative Process, or both E&P and CP.
Equity & Power and Creative Process
Anthropology
Zora Neale Hurston and Writing in the Margins (Christina Leza)
Art
Museum Practicum (Rebecca Tucker)
Public Monuments: Art and Memory (Rebecca Tucker)
Art & Studio Art
Advanced Sculpture (Martha Poggioli)
Economics and Business
Economics of Climate Change: Colonialism, Capitalism and the Environment (Michelan Wilson)
Education
Power of the Arts (Kris Stanec)
English
Global Chaucer (Regula Meyer Evitt)
Introduction to Reading Literature: Writing Through Childhood and Race (Aline Lo)
Poetry and Activism (Juan Morales)
Rhizomatic Storytelling (Natanya Ann Pulley)
Environmental Studies
Sustainable Development: Global to Local (Jean Lee)
Film & Media Studies
Access, Disinformation, and Media Literacy (Jordan Lord)
Archival Documentary Filmmaking (Dylan Nelson)
Genre & Filmmaking: Realism (Arom Choi & Baran Germen)
Unworking Ableism: Access, Art, and Film (Jordan Lord)
French Studies
Le Sénégal au féminin : Littérature, Art et cinéma (Nene Diop)
History
Graphic Histories: Reading and Crafting Reflections on the Past (Danielle Sanchez)
Italian Studies
Fighting For Liberation: Black Voices in Italian Culture (Amanda Minervini)
Music
Engaged Music Creation (Iddo Aharony)
Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England (Lidia Chang)
Performance and Performing (Ryan Banagale)
Puente del Mundo: The Musical Crossroads of Panama (Liliana Carrizo)
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies (REMS)
Asian American Activism (Leland Tabares)
Race and Capitalism (Leland Tabares)
Spanish & Portuguese
Afro-Latin American Culture and Literature (Ángela Castro)
Queer Latinoamérica (Naomi Wood)
Creative Process
Education
Curriculum Theories (Aaron Stoller)
Environmental Studies
Introduction to Global Climate Change (Mike Taber)
Film and Media Studies
Access, Disinformation, and Media Literacy (Jordan Lord)
Film Manifestoes/Filmmaking (Dylan Nelson)
French Studies
Topics in French Culture: L’art et les artistes (Alistaire Tallent)
History
The Craft of Writing History (Amy Kohout)
Haunted Landscapes: History, Memory, and the Built Environment (Jake P. Smith)
Islamic Cities (Jane Murphy)
Music
Music and the Museum (Lidia Chang)
Music Behind Bars (Iddo Aharony)
Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish Poetry Workshop (Carrie Ruiz)
Theatre and Dance Department
Practicing Togetherness: Building Community through the Arts and Creative Action (Shawn Womack)
Storytelling Through Landscape Design (Marie Davis)
Equity & Power
Classics
Roman Sports and Entertainment (Sanjaya Thakur)
Economics and Business
Economics of Education Policy (Guanyi Yang and Nickie Coomer) Economics of Inequality (Guanyi Yang)
Economic Thought: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (Jake Organ)
Education
Integrative STEM Education: Promoting Inclusion and Equity (Mike Taber)
Gender & Sexuality in US Public Schools (Tina Valtierra)
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners (Chelsea Walter)
English & Comparative Literature
Equity and Power in the Mediterranean World (William Davis)
Identity, Power, and Poetics in the Mediterranean World (William Davis)
Introduction to Shakespeare (Genevieve Love)
Shakespeare and Social Justice (Genevieve Love)
Plantation Afterlives (Najnin Islam)
Environmental Studies
Food Systems (Jean Lee)
Law for the Earth( Mike Angstadt)
Feminist and Gender Studies
Sex Cultures, Sexual Politics (Rushaan Kumar)
Film and Media Studies
Politics and Comedy (Scott Krzych and Elizabeth Coggins)
Racial Capitalism and American Film History (Scott Krzych)
Racial Capitalism in U.S. Film and Media–1970 to Present (Scott Krzych)
Third Cinema and Its Afterlives (Baran Germen)
French Studies
Fairy Tales and the French Renaissance (Alistaire Tallent)
Language, Literature and Cultural Studies in Senegal (Ibrahima Wade)
Ousmane Sembene, Griot du peuple et père du cinéma africain (Griot of the people and Father of African cinema) (Nene Ndiaye Diop)
Topics in Francophone Culture: Exploring Cajun and Creole Cultures in the US (Ibrahima Wade)
German Studies
Against Monolingualism (Ane Steckenbiller)
Anti-Fascism (Chet Lisiecki)
From Colonial Fantasies to Imperial Debris: The German Colonial Experience and Its Legacies (Christiane Steckenbiller)
Queer Germany (Chet Lisiecki)
History
Archives and Counterarchives: The Politics of Historical Knowledge (John Marquez)
Italian Studies
Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America (Ken Scriboni)
Japanese Studies
Languages and Cultures of Japan (Hiromi Onishi)
Music
Musicals in American Culture (Ryan Banagale)
Philosophy
Power and Equity (John Riker)
Political Science
Racism, Dispossession and the Global Economy (John Gould)
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies (REMS)
The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: A Grad School Prep Series (Leland Tabares)
Race, Color, and Consciousness (Anbegwon Atuire)
Religion
Asian Buddha, American Buddha (David Gardiner)
Jews, Christians, and Christian Anti-Judaism (Pamela Reeves)
Spanish and Portuguese
Against Monolingualism: Languages, AI, and the Future of the Humanities (Andreea Marinescu)
The Idea of Latin America (Andreea Marinescu)
Sociology
Emancipatory Sociology (Cayce Hughes & Florencia Rojo)
Theatre and Dance Department
Afro-Asia Performance, Media (Pallavi Sriram)
Student Projects
Student Grants
Judson Thomas & Julissa Torres, “The Category is Vogue! Resistance Through Dance, Queer Expression, and Community”
Giorgio Gioele Sirito & Azaria Hampton, “Empowering Students of Color in Educational Spaces: A Creating Change Inspired Exploration”
Zoey Roueche, “Unveiling the Veins of Change: Redlining, Gentrification, and Resilience in New Orleans”
Lola Lacheze, “The French Language in Louisiana: A Colonial Heritage and Its Present Impact”
Sonia Jogal, “Musical Resistance and Resilience and its Cultivation of Joy in New Orleans, LA, and Memphis, TN”
Jackson Hammock, “Understanding the Jazz Funeral: Syncretism, Communion, Catharsis and the Essence of New Orleans”
Nathaniel Pittman IV, “Investigation of the Parallels between New Orleans Creole culture and Caribbean Culture”
Danielle Ryans, “Sustaining over Time: The Impacts of Sugar Cane on the Economies of the Southern US”
Barbara Bilic, “Architecture of Resistance: Queer Spaces in San Francisco and Los Angeles”
Kupai Marx, “Forging For Peace: Weapons into Plowshares through Community-Based Art in Waimanalo, Hawai‘i”
Course Projects
Group Projects
Events
The Diné Reader Symposium
(Oct. 6-10, 2023)
Book Luncheon, Esther Belin, Jake Skeets, & Manny Loley Reading,
Dinétics: The Poetics of Diné Writing Panel, Interview with Jeff Berglund
Creativity Towards Inclusivity Series Readings
(Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
Ruben Quesada on “Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry” (Dec. 8)
Matthew Salesses’ “Craft in the Real World” Book Luncheon (Jan. 26)
Matthew Salesses Craft Talk and Reading (Jan. 31)
Lee Ann Roripaugh “tsunami vs the fukushima 50” Book Luncheon (Apr. 17)
Lee Ann Roripaugh Rhizomatic Storytelling Convergence Class (Apr. 26)
Rone Shavers on Afrofuturism & Experimental Writing Convergence Class (5/1)
Rone Shavers Reading (5/1)
Capstone Event: A Reading with Rebecca F. Kuang (Sept. 6)
Supported Events in Social Justice, Equity & Power, Creative Process, and Creativity Towards Inclusivity
Hydra Medusa Book Reading with Brandon Shimoda
Olmeca (Hip Hop Artist)
Lan Duong (author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism)
The Afterlife is Letting Go book Reading with Brandon Shimoda
Engagements
Equity & Power Summer 2022 Seminars
Seminar #1: Foundational Texts of New Humanistic Traditions and Approaches (June 1 – June 16, 2022)
Seminar #2: Opening New Doors in Humanities Disciplines
(August 2 – August 18, 2022)
Creative Processes Development Series
Social Justice, Art, Ethics, and Technology (Fall 2022 & Spring 2023)
Summer 2023 Retreat
“Beyond Antiracist Pedagogies: Reframing the Relationship Between Humanities Methods in the Classroom and Social Justice”
Academic Conference (June 14-17, 2023)
“New Perspectives on Humanistic Approaches, Ethics, and Social Change”
Guests
2024 Block Visitors
May Yang (EN100) Intro to Literature
The Reminders (MU225) Engaged Music Lab
Lee Ann Roripaugh (EN280) Rhizomatic Storytelling
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