Advancing Equity and Justice in College Teaching and Learning: Decolonizing the Curriculum

This faculty workshop will engage in a decolonial, anti-racist pedagogy to ask, who is considered a legitimate knowledge producer? What counts as appropriate knowledge and research? And how do these characterizations maintain inequalities and injustices in academia? The MLFTC Equity Council is proud to welcome Natasha Behl as the workshop presenter.

Natasha Behl is associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Dr. Behl completed her doctorate in political science at University of California, Los Angeles. She explains why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and identifies potential ways to create more egalitarian relations in liberal democracies and in academia. Dr. Behl’s book, Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is published with Oxford University Press. Her research is published in leading journals like PS: Political Science and Politics, Feminist Formations, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Space & Polity, and Journal of Narrative Politics. She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU where she teaches Global Feminisms, Feminist Action Research, Navigating Academia as a Raced and Gendered Space, Comparative Politics, Politics of India, and Everyday Forms of Political Resistance. She has also written for The Washington Post and Public Seminar.

Keon McGuire

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

keon.mcguire@asu.edu