Sociology Department Chair, Bellevue College
Editor-In-Chief, Native Realities
Programmer, American Indian Film Festival
Writer, Poet, Collage Artist, Photographer.
Lansdowne Scholar, Dr. Sara Sutler-Cohen will appear at the University of Victoria, BC
Tuesday, October 7 at 7:30 pm.
David Lam Auditorium
McLaurin 144
Reading from her own work, Dr. Sutler-Cohen will explore both the confusions and the joy that come from occupying the liminal space of being culturally mixed and will reflect on how this has impacted her experience in academia. In addition, she will discuss the ways in which pedagogy can be radicalized in the classroom to make what is topically strenuous, such as issues of racism, classism and homophobia, relevant and successfully led through creative means.
Popular Culture/Cultural Studies, Religion, Zombie Films, Sociology of Knowledge, Race/Class/Gender and Heavy Metal, Social Justice, Public Health, Food and Culture, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Feminist Theory, The Arts, Literary Criticism.
Selected Works:
Interview with Henry Rollins. Crusher Magazine. 2007. crushermagazine.com.
Interview with Lesbian. Crusher Magazine. 2007. crushermagazine.com.
“Chapped With Weather and Age: Mixed Blood Identity and The Shape of History.” Cultural Representations and Contestation in Native America. Andrew Jolivette, ed. 2006. AltaMira Press.
“(Dis)Locating Spiritual Knowledge: Embodied Ideologies, Social Landscapes, and the Power of the Neoshamanic Other.” Cultural Representations and Contestation in Native America. Andrew Jolivette, ed. 2006. AltaMira Press.
“All My Ancestors Have Blisters on Their Toes.” Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust. MariJo Moore, ed. Avalon Publishing Group. 2006.
"Louisiana: Plantation Nation in 2 Beats" and "It Is And I Am" in Unlikely Stories. 2005. unlikelystories.org.
“’Spirit Guides Me’: An Exploration Into Neoshamanism in Northern California.” University of California, Santa Cruz, (Ph.D. Dissertation): June 2005.
“The Indigenous Diaspora in Academics and the Impact of the Red Power Movement on the Inclusion of American Indian Scholarship.” Humboldt State University, (Master’s Thesis): 2000.
Education:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D., Sociology, June 2005
Parenthetical Notation in American Studies
MA, Sociology, August 2003
Dissertation: “’Spirit Guides Me’: An Exploration Into Neoshamanism in Northern California.”
Humboldt State University
MA, Sociology, August 2000
With Distinction
Master’s Thesis: “The Indigenous Diaspora in Academics and the Impact of the Red Power Movement on Inclusion of American Indian Scholarship.”
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