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As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University, my goal is to facilitate the hiring, retention, and promotion of colleagues and to provide leadership in the college through initiatives designed to promote and sustain a diverse, inclusive, and civil campus. I am a Cherokee Nation citizen and have served as a Cherokee Nation Sequoyah Commissioner.
As Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability, my literacy research explores the types of community change made possible with reading and writing. I'm currently developing a Digital Archive for Ojibwe and Cherokee Manuscript Translation that aims to create an online resource to support language perseverance and preservation efforts through the translation of American Indian manuscripts housed in museums and archives around the country. This project was generously supported with an Institute for Museums and Library Services Sparks! Ignition Grant and NU Tier 1 Grant. My current research also includes two edited collections in press: Literacies: A Critical Sourcebook, 2nd edition, with co-editors Christine Haas and Mike Rose (Macmillan); and Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference, co-edited with Damian Baca and Jonathan Osborne (Routledge). My sole-authored books, The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s Perseverance (Oklahoma UP 2012) and The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community, (SUNY UP 1998) were based on activist qualitative research with my tribe and a urban community members in upstate New York. With Mary Juzwik, I served as Co-Editor of Research in the Teaching of English, the premiere research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English from 2012-2017, and I have published 48 articles and book chapters. My early work in literacy studies earned both in 1997 the National Council of Teachers of English CCCC James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award and the Richard Braddock Award. I received the 2017 Distinguished Engaged Scholar award by the Conference on Community Writing. |
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