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 at Montclair State University. She is a former American Academy of Religion co-chair of the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit and a current member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust. Trained as a comparative religious ethicist, her international publications and presentations for government and non-governmental agencies address the intersections of religion, human rights, genocide, and theory of history. The recipient of several teaching fellowships on genocide and the Holocaust and a former MSU Teaching Fellow, she teaches courses on Religious Ethics, the Holocaust and Genocide, African Religions, Jewish Applied Ethics, Religions of the World, and Religion & Human Rights.
Catherine Keohane is Associate Director for Teaching and Learning for the Office for Faculty Excellence. Catherine has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. She has designed and taught upper- and lower-division literature, humanities, and composition courses, and has experience teaching in multiple modalities. She has presented on student engagement at MLA, and has begun to develop open-educational resources that work to mitigate financial barriers to students’ success while also serving students' sense of belongingness.