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.
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.
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.
