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The fourth I. DeQuincey Newman Lecture on Peace and Justice will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 10 in the USC School of Law Auditorium. The speaker will be Cornel Pewewardy, lecturer, educator, musician, and member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. The lecture is presented by the I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice in the University's College of Social Work.
The event is free and open to the public.
Pewewardy is currently an educational consultant based out of Fresno, California. He moved to California in 2007 from Lawton, Oklahoma where he was the dean of academic instruction at the Comanche Nation College from 2005-07 while on leave from the University of Kansas, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership and adjunct faculty at Haskell Indian Nations University. While at the University of Kansas, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Multicultural Education. His joint appointment at Kansas was in the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies ,where he taught a graduate course in Applied Indigenous Leadership. At Haskell Indian Nations University, he taught courses in culturally responsive teaching for American Indian students. Pewewardy is also an adjunct instructor in the American Indian Studies Program at the Fresno City College in Fresno, California.
Pewewardy has written many technical papers, research articles, and book chapters on culturally responsive teaching strategies, learning styles of American Indian children, ethnic stereotyping in schools and sports, identity politics and representation in the curriculum, linguistic imperialism, southern plains song and dance, and Comanche Centered Education. He has eight professional music CD recordings on southern plains music and ten CDs with combined, various artists. He has published numerous ed-op pieces in most of the major Indian-owned newspapers in the country. Among his current writing projects is a commissioned book on American Indian mascots to be published by the University of Nebraska Press, which he is writing with his friend and colleague Tony Clark.
Peweweardy is the recipient of numerous awards in transformational leadership, teaching, research, and service. Most recently, he was selected the recipient of the 2007 G. Mike Charleston Research Award for Outstanding Scholarship in American Indian Education from the American Educational Research Association.
The I. DeQuincey Newman Lecture series was established by the USC College of Social Work's I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice with the intent of examining and highlighting peace and justice from diverse perspectives, and also to honor the legacy of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, a Civil Rights activist, state senator, and minister.
For more information, contact Sadye Logan, I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Change administrator, at 7-0468 or sadyel@gwm.sc.edu.
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