Black History Month and Beyond: A Faculty Panel Online
Without explicit attention to diversifying our courses, most faculty find that relying on the models we’ve had for many years inadvertently message students that our courses and disciplines are not welcoming of diverse people. Of course this is not our intention – but we have to work explicitly to enact our inclusive intentions. Inspired by Black History Month, we’ve invited several faculty to talk about how they have diversified their courses. Research has shown that small interventions to explicitly and thoughtfully incorporate diverse perspectives, examples, and readings are powerful in improving diverse students’ experiences in our classes. Our faculty panelists share their strategies for making Black History and Heritage more than a month.
Presenters
Danné Davis, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Douglas Larkin, Professor, Teaching and Learning
Kate E. Temoney, Associate Professor and Chair, Religion
- Date:
- Friday, February 24, 2023
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Instructors
Dr. Davis is an Associate Professor of the Teaching and Learning department. Her research interests center on multicultural education, the arts and teacher education. Her current work involves increasing elementary teacher candidates' awareness of and responsiveness to LGBT diversity. Using music and song to teach about the Black Experience is another focus.
Douglas B. Larkin is a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University in New Jersey. His main research concerns the preparation of science teachers for culturally diverse classrooms, and issues of equity and justice in teacher preparation. He worked as a high school physics and chemistry teacher for ten years—most recently in Trenton, NJ—and also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching physics and mathematics in Kenya and Papua New Guinea. He received his Ph.D. in Teacher Education in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Madiso
Dr. Kate E. Temoney is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion as well as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Montclair State University. She is an Editor of the Journal of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, and a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust. Trained as a comparative religious ethicist, her teaching and publications are at the intersections of religion, human rights, genocide, and theory of history, and she is the recipient of several teaching fellowships on genocide and the Holocaust. Dr. Temoney holds an M.Ed. from the College of William & Mary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Florida State University.
Catherine Keohane is Associate Director for the Office for Faculty. She has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University and supports faculty of all ranks in their career development.