Teaching blog

I recently finished watching the show “Reservation Dogs” on Hulu, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. The series runs through the universal themes of family, community, love, and loss from the perspective of four young Native Americans, their

I recently finished teaching Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns as part of my Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Global Migration Honors course. Though it is a historical work about the Great Migration out of the South and to the North

I recently had a conversation in my Honors Developmental Psychology class in which we explored the question, “Is agism one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice and discrimination in today’s society?” This led to a discussion of some of

I just finished the memoir, “Acceptance," by Emi Nietfeld, in which she recounts her difficult childhood and adolescence, bouncing in and out of psychiatric institutions and the foster care system, often ending up homeless.  But she always had

I’m reading two books relating to the Vietnam War and Vietnamese history. The first is Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s The Mountains Sing, a novel that follows the Tran family as they experience three conflicts: the Second World War, the French War in Vietnam

I graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1999.  After graduation, diploma in hand, I worked a job I didn’t care for and attended a graduate program on the east coast that I disliked. After doing some soul-searching, in 2002, I

As a white, non-Native person in the US, I have been reading and watching films to educate myself better about Native history and culture in the US.  I feel that it’s my responsibility to try to fill the giant gap in my education about people