As an Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies, Dr. Jenne Schmidt’s (they/them) research is situated at the intersections of critical disability theory, queer politics, and environmental studies. Specifically, their research interrogates the ways that environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip, trans, and queer existence and futurity. They refuse the […]
On April 19, the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies held a Community Conversation with Professor Dr. Ernesto Sagás and Assistant Professor Dr. Nikoli Attai. Dr. Sagás presented “Contemporary Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean: Dictatorship, Democracy, and National Sovereignty.” As the last remaining colonies of Spain in the New World, the fate […]
Dr. Carolin Aronis (she/her/היא) studies current antisemitism as associated with white supremacy in the U.S., specifically the practice of targeting college students or larger urban Jewish (and non-Jewish) communities. Dr. Aronis is interested in ways this has sustained a climate of fear, trauma, and intimidation. Through the intersection of critical media studies, rhetoric, and technologies, this specific […]
On March 23, the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies held a Community Conversation with Dr. Tori Arthur and Dr. Caroline Aronis. Dr. Arthur presented “#AbledsAreWeird: TikTok and Representing Black Disabled Womanhood”. Over the last decade, disability justice activists have employed social networking platforms to raise awareness about the lived experiences of […]
Over the last decade or so, non-Native natural resource and environmental management researchers and practitioners have become interested in incorporating Indigenous perspectives into their work. But is that really possible, when many environmental problems that exist today are the legacy of actions taken to “tame the frontier,” and settler colonialism continues to shape relations between […]
Dr. Nikoli Attai is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, focusing on Black queer and feminist studies. He has taught ETST 201: Introduction to Queer Studies, ETST 412: Africa and the African Diaspora, and ETST 305: Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the US and is excited to develop classes on queer politics in the global […]
Assistant Professor Dr. Lindsey Schneider gave the talk “Why restoring Indigenous land rights is good for the plant” at TEDx Mile High in Denver last spring and her talk will be featured on the main TED Talk website on November 23rd, 2022. Perhaps you’ve seen or heard a land acknowledgment before — it’s a brief statement recognizing […]
Dr. Ernesto Sagás and co-author Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco’s book Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change will be published by Routledge in February 2023. The collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional […]
Five Colorado State University professors have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar grants for the 2021-2022 academic year.
