Photo Taken by Aldon Nielsen 2012 CLA Conference

Teaching and Mentoring Recognition

SITPA, Mentoring Program. Duke University. 

Girls Reaching Out Education Award, Student Organization, UNCG, 2009.

Anthony “Tony” Ross award for dedication to and support of Black students, Northern Arizona University (NAU). Awarded by 2008 Black Student Convocation Planning Committee.             

Golden Axe Award, recognized by NAU graduates as Most Influential faculty,  April 2007, 2008.

Arizona African American Legislative Conference, Influential African Americans in Education, 2008.

Recognized at NAU’s Black Student Convocation as Most Influential Faculty Member, 2006, 2007.

Curriculum Development

Courses developed and taught in Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, and African American Studies Programs

Courses Taught (Selective List)

* Indicates courses added to university catalogs and department/program curriculum

 Graduate

* African American Studies: African American Theoretical Perspectives (on-line)

*African American Studies: African American Gender Studies (on-line)

*English: African American Literature 

English: (Special Topic) African American Confinement Literature

English: (Special Topic) African American Healing Literature


Undergraduate 
African American Studies: (Special Topic) Black Lives Matter

*African American Studies: Africana Literature

*African American Studies: Black Women in the US

*Ethnic Studies: Africana Women

*Ethnic Studies: Introduction to African American Studies

Ethnic Studies: (Special Topic) African American Film and Literature
                     
*English: Introduction to African American Literature (in-person and on-line)

 English: (Special Topic) African American Women’s Protest Literature

English: (Special Topic) African American Protest Literature

English: (Special Topic) Africana Women’s Literature

English: (Special Topic) Literature of Africa and the Diaspora

English: (Special Topic)  U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literature

English: (Special Topic) Twentieth Century American Literature

                  

                                 educational Workshops 

July 19 -August 1, 2015
Don't Deny My Voice: Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement." University of Kansas.


June 13-24, 2010
CIEE International Seminar, “Challenges of a Developing Nation.” Legon, Ghana.
 
February 2006
Red Rock Great Teaching Retreat. Kanab, Utah.
 
June 2002
“History and Memory of Civil Rights Movement.”  Summer Seminar. Dr. Valerie Smith, Facilitator.  West Virginia State University.


 

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