Dr. Elizabeth Long
Current Issues in Sustainability and the Environmental Movement
For a class on The Environmental Movement, develop topics from the Slow Food Movement, Eco-feminism, and Greening Businesses to Farm Bill
Activism, the religious response to global warming, global environmental justice/sustainable development, and sustainable cities to aid in lecture preparation. As my own research develops beyond the class, the student may also help in primary research. We will meet to share our research and critically evaluate the sources.
Biracialism and Personal Narrative (with Dr. Jennifer Bratter)
We will investigate ways race is socially constructed in the texts of memoirs, autobiographies, essays, and genealogical reflections of racially mixed adults. Some themes include modern notions of passing and how people hide a complex ancestry, the roles of gender and class in framing the meainng of racial identity and the ways that it is conceptualized and felt, and experiences of racial discrimination or stereotyping. Students will read several texts, highlight common themes and variations across the texts, as well as discuss in depth the way each text addresses such issues. Students will identify particularly salient passages that speak to the aforementioned themes, and discuss how they relate to contemporary thinking about race. We may ask for brief written responses to spark analysis among the research group.
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