Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Culturally Affirming Classroom - A Teaching Innovation Conference: Culturally Affirming Classrooms through an Interdisciplinary Lens
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How can we design culturally affirming learning spaces that celebrate students' lived experiences? How can we challenge students to grow into the selves they want to be without contributing to white supremacist, colonizing practices? Join us for the Winter 2022 Teaching Innovation Conference where we'll learn from Dr. Martín Alberto Gonzalez and other PSU faculty who are creating culturally affirming classrooms through an interdisciplinary lens.
Featured Facilitators:
Dr. Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Martín Alberto Gonzalez, a first-generation Xicano from the predominantly Latinx community of Oxnard, California, comes to Portland State as an assistant professor of Chicano/Latino Studies. The youngest of seven and the only one in his family to go to college, he graduated from California State University, Northridge, majoring in sociology and minoring in psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University with an emphasis on structural racism in educational settings. In his research, Gonzalez uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino Critical Theory (LatCrit), along with collaborative qualitative research methods, to examine how racism (and other systems of oppression like white supremacy, sexism, homophobia, etc.) negatively shapes the experiences of Latinx students across all educational settings. He uses concepts such as community cultural wealth and counter-storytelling to highlight asset-based explanations for Latinx student success.
Dr. Cristina Herrera
Dr. Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and grew up in Oxnard, California. Cristina is Professor and Director of Chicano/Latino Studies at PSU. Her latest manuscript, ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (Routledge, 2020) explored representations of Chicana adolescents she dubs “ChicaNerds” for their displays of Chicana feminist consciousness and “nerdy” traits of intellectual curiosity. Her co-authored book, Latinx Teens: US Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen is due out in spring 2022 with University of Arizona Press.
Dr. Molly Benitez
Dr. Kali Simmons is a descendant of the Oglala Lakota tribe of Pine Ridge South Dakota and an assistant professor in Portland State’s Indigenous Nations Studies department. An Indigenous feminist scholar, her research examines genre works by Indigenous peoples (primarily horror, speculative fiction, and documentary). She is currently at work on a project which examines representations of Indigenous peoples in modern American horror films. Her work has been published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, and on Vulture.com.
Dr. Courtney Terry earned a PhD in Humanities with concentrations African American Studies and English Literature from Clark Atlanta University (HBCU). Her doctoral research focused on African and African American trickster traditions and their manifestations in contemporary Hip-Hop culture and Rap music genre. Currently, Dr. Terry is an associate professor in the Black Studies Department at Portland State University.
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