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
Tanya Maloney, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Jeff Strickland, Professor of History and Department Chair
Leslie Wilson, Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Instructors
Jeff Strickland is Professor of History and Department Chair. He teaches undergraduate courses on the Civil War Era. His first book is Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War–Era Charleston (University Press of Florida, 2015). His second book is All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is currently writing The Reconstruction Era in United States History, 1861-1877 (in contract).
Professor of History, Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and expert on environmental racism in New York City, community development, American History and African American studies.
Tanya is an Associate Professor with the Department for Teaching and Learning. She specializes in Race and Racism, Anti-Racist Teacher Preparation, Social Justice Education,
Mathematics Education.
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.