Featured Course Guides
Tulsa Guide
I created this guide in collaboration with my Trinity College colleague Jeffrey Liszka, Arts and Humanities Librarian, for an upper level Public Policy & Law class to facilitate student research on the history and contemporary implications of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Since there was a great deal of interest in this guide beyond the course, we shared it widely with the campus community. The guide includes books; background and scholarly articles; historical, current, and local news sources; court cases and reports; other primary source materials such as oral histories, podcasts, films, images, and maps; as well as links to Tulsa centered museums, archives, and foundations. It was designed to capture Greenwood before, during, and after the race massacre to emphasize that the history of Black Wall Street did not begin or end with the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.
Trials of the Century
I created this guide for a first-year seminar themed around "trials of the century." For their final assignment, students were required to write a term paper and make a brief presentation on a famous trial from the early twentieth century. Students were permitted to write about some aspect of a trial already covered in class, or about about some other famous trial in the period, including, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, the "Scopes Monkey Trial," Ossian Sweet, or the Scottsboro Boys. The class also incorporated discussion of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the lack of legal repercussions. This guide served as a compliment to a library instruction session I did for the class that gave students the opportunity to practice researching the above listed trials in a workshop setting.
Introduction to Census Data
I created this guide for a first-year urban studies course themed around food geographies. Students were required to use Social Explorer, a platform for creating maps and reports based on U.S. Census data, to visualize demographics and the food landscape of a selected U.S. city. Successful completion of the assignment required a working knowledge of U.S. Census data, including an understanding of the differences between the decennial census and the American Community Survey, census geographies, where to find Census data, and an introduction to Social Explorer. This guide served as a compliment to a library instruction session that covered the same topics.
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
I created this course guide for an introductory level cultural anthropology class that required students to write a proposal for a hypothetical ethnographic research study. Students needed help in selecting a topic and identifying a community to study, finding and citing scholarly sources, and understanding ethnographic methods and research ethics. This guide served as a compliment to a library instruction session I did for the course.