Intersectionality

  • A Conversation with Kelsey Wrightson

    Season 1 Episode 2
    Published: 2020-11-06
    Length: 46:27
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with Kelsey Wrightson, Executive Director of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. They discuss the unique educational approach of Dechinta, which centers Indigenous knowledge and voices in its educational efforts.

    Topics: Dechinta, Intersectionality, Native Studies, Pedagogy

  • A Conversation with Matthew Wildcat

    Season 2 Episode 1
    Published: 2021-10-15
    Length: 64:33
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    In the first episode of the second season, Ashley and Justin sit down with Matthew Wildcat, a faculty member within the Department of Political Science and faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

    Topics: Decoloniality, Intersectionality, Native Studies, Pedagogy, Storytelling

  • A Conversation with Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

    Season 1 Episode 3
    Published: 2020-11-13
    Length: 55:48
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with Miguel Guladron Ramirez, who will begin in 2021 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. They discuss strategies for building more just syllabi, responsive teaching techniques, and developing "epistemologies of resistance."

    Topics: Epistemology, Intersectionality, Pedagogy

  • A Conversation with Regina Shands Stoltzfus

    Season 2 Episode 2
    Published: 2021-10-27
    Length: 53:12
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin sit down to talk with Regina Shands Stoltzfus, professor of peace, justice, and conflict studies at Goshen (Indiana) College about building resilience when teaching intense topics, community care in the classroom, and more. Regina is co-author, with Tobin Miller Shearer, of the new book, "Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality" (Herald Press).

    Topics: Intersectionality, Pedagogy, Resilience

  • A Conversation with Sheryl Lightfoot

    Season 1 Episode 5
    Published: 2020-11-25
    Length: 41:36
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs; Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics; and Associate Professor, First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of British Colombia. She is Anishinaabe, a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe, enrolled at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Baraga, Michigan.

    Topics: Decoloniality, Indigenous, Intersectionality, Native Studies, Pedagogy

  • A Conversation with Tiffany Lethabo King

    Season 1 Episode 4
    Published: 2020-11-23
    Length: 37:06
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin sit down for a conversation with Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. They discuss how COVID and a move to remote teaching has necessitated a change in pedagogy, the changing needs of students in higher education spaces, and more.

    Topics: Coronavirus, Higher education, Intersectionality, Pedagogy

  • A Conversation with William Paris

    Season 1 Episode 1
    Published: 2020-09-30
    Length: 46:33
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with William Paris, the Frank B. Weeks Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

    Topics: Intersectionality, Pedagogy

  • A Conversation with Yasser Payne

    Season 2 Episode 4
    Published: 2021-11-11
    Length: 68:35
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with Yasser Payne, Associate Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. They talk about Dr. Payne's ethnographic research program which is centered on exploring resilience on the streets of Black and Brown America using the Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR) methodology—the process of involving street-identified persons or members of this population in the process of activist-based research.

    Topics: Activism, Intersectionality, Pedagogy, Race, Resilience, Street Participatory Action Research methodology

  • A Conversation with Zachary Casey

    Season 2 Episode 3
    Published: 2021-11-04
    Length: 56:13
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin sit down with Zachary Casey, Associate Professor and Chair of Educational Studies at Rhodes College, to discuss radical pedagogy strategies, paradise-building in the classroom, and more.

    Topics: Intersectionality, Pedagogy, Privilege, STEM

  • Ashley Interviews Justin

    Season 1 Episode 7
    Published: 2020-12-15
    Length: 36:39
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer

    In the second part of our co-host interviews, co-host Ashley Bohrer interviews Justin de Leon, who, in addition to hosting this podcast, serves as a visiting faculty member at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. They discuss the influences that have shaped Justin's teaching, creative represencing, and positionality in the classroom.

    Topics: Decoloniality, Indigenous, Indigenous people, Intersectionality, Pedagogy, Positionality

  • Justin Interviews Ashley

    Season 1 Episode 6
    Published: 2020-12-15
    Length: 22:42
    Hosts: Justin de Leon

    Our co-hosts turn the mics back to each other. In this episode, co-host Justin de Leon interviews Ashley Bohrer, who, in addition to hosting this podcast, serves as assistant professor of gender and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. They discuss Ashley's road to academia, how activism and other experiences inform her teaching, and being real and emotional intelligence in the classroom.

    Topics: Academia, Activism, Emotional Intelligence, Intersectionality, Pedagogy

  • Racism Roadtrip

    Episode 70
    Published: 2023-05-15
    Length: 1:27:33
    Hosts: Euda Fils

    Today’s episode features three current Keough School of Global Affairs students who took part in the course “Racial Justice In America,” offered through the Center for Social Concerns. The conversation is hosted by Euda Fils (MGA '23), and the guests include Bernice Antoine (B.A. '26) and Aidé Cuenca Narvaéz (MGA '23). 

    The course's curriculum is centered around Clint Smith's book, How the Word Is Passed, which is about Clint’s visit "to eight places in the United States as well as one abroad to understand how each reckons with its relationship to the history of American slavery.” As part of the course, students were offered the opportunity over spring break to visit some of the same sites that Clint did, as well as some other additional sites in the US that were important in both the history of slavery and the story of the struggle for civil rights.

    Topics: Intersectionality, Peace Studies Students, Race

  • The Coronavirus Crisis through Gender, Environmental, Anthropological and Indigenous Lenses

    Episode 15
    Published: 2020-04-01
    Length: 41:46
    Hosts: Asher Kaufman

    Kroc Institute Director, Asher Kaufman, talks with Kroc Institute faculty members, researchers, and graduate students about aspects of the current Coronavirus crisis, including gender, environmental, anthropological and indigenous considerations.    

    Topics: Coronavirus, Environment, Gender, Graduate, Intersectionality, Native Studies