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TEACHING and ADVISING

See further below for information about my courses.

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Faculty Advisor - Indigenous Student Alliance (2021-2022)

I am very pleased to serve as faculty advisor for the Indigenous Student Alliance at the Claremont Colleges for 2021-2022. (I am also the Faculty Advisor for the Claremont Colleges Hub of the Sunrise Movement.) 

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Indigenous & Settler Colonialism Student Theses/Projects

I am a formal and informal faculty adviser for a number of Senior Theses or Senior Projects each year. Among those are some that relate to American Indian and Indigenous movements or issues of settler colonialism. Students have examined, or in some cases created documents as part of: 

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  • Awakening Within: Experiences of Native College Students speaking Indigenous Languages & Indigenous Language Pedagogy in Higher Education - Carolann Duro

  • Indigenous Community - Campus collaborations at the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability - Jonas Banta

  • Anishinabe-led pipeline resistance in Minnesota- Charlotte Hughes

  • Local Indigenous Resistance to the State in Peru - Claire Gross

  • Dinétah Resistance & ReEducation Project- Anna Leopold

  • Comparing Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and the U.S. - Sarah Wright

  • the Polynesian Voyaging Society - Loring Thomas

  • The resilience of Ioway spiritual traditions

  • Indigenous media creation- Genna Kules

  • Indigenous resistance through Edgar Heap of Birds art- Charlotte Jones

  • The impact of CA proposition 209 on Native American higher education - Charles Herman 

  • Intergenerational violence prevention among Native families and youth - Shannon McCarthy

  • Tongva pursuit of federal recognition - Alice Mirlesse

  • Discourse used by Brazilian Indigenous activists - Alexandra Le Varrat

  • The incorporation of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in natural resource co-management in British Columbia - Tiffany Ortamond

  • Indigenous and Western land management in New Zealand- Kyle Jensen

               ...and others.

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I am aspiring to create links to the digitally-available theses and projects) here.

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Student and Alumni Engagement with Indigenous Communities and Projects

Many of our students become involved with American Indian communities and individuals through established Pitzer-community relationships.  Other students and alumni also bring relations and involvements with them, or establish their own relationships to community projects.

Courses taught at Pitzer College, Fall 2007-Spring 2020

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NEWEST Course (fall 2018): Soc 75: American Settler Colonialism (click for syllabus)

 

First Year Seminar: Making Space and Unsettling Settlers: Indian Nations of Southern California

Soc 1: Sociology and Its View of the World

Soc 74: Indigenous Educational Access

Soc 76: Indigenous Decolonization and Anti-Racism Movements

Soc 77: Indigenous Movements of the Americas

Soc 78: American Indian Movements

Soc 91: Political Sociology

Soc 111: Social Movement and Social Change

Soc 115: Sociology of Law (no longer taught)

Soc 116: Women and Law (no longer taught)

Soc 120: Sexual Politics and Sexuality Movements

Soc 199A: Senior Seminar

Soc 199B: Senior Thesis/Project

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Courses taught at Reed College, 2005-2006

Sociology of Social Movements

Introduction to Sociology

Sociology of Indigenous Peoples

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Courses taught at the University of Washington

Sociology of Social Movements

Social Change and American Indian Sovereignty

Social Structures and Social Processes, Community and Environmental Planning Program, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

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