Presents
The Fourth I. DeQuincey Newman Lecture on Peace and Justice
with
Dr. Cornel Pewewardy
Lecturer, Educator and Musician
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
USC School of Law Auditorium [Click here for a Map]
Welcome Flyer (in Adobe Acrobat)
A Brief Biography of Cornel Pewewardy
Dr. Cornel Pewewardy is Comanche-Kiowa and a member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.
Dr. 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 2005-2007 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 KU he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Multicultural Education. His joint appointment at KU 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. Dr. Pewewardy is also an adjunct instructor in American Indian Studies Program at the Fresno City College in Fresno, California.
Dr. 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 (8) professional music CD recordings on southern plains music and ten (10) 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, Dr. Tony Clark.
Dr. Pewewardy is excited by informative decolonizing readings. He is committed to encouraging people to read and study their own cultures. He enjoys the challenges of analyzing cultural hegemony and has the ability to look at broad and complex issues and break them down in a clear and concise manner. Frequently asked to speak on college campuses around the country, students have been influenced, consciously and subconsciously, by Dr. Pewewardy’s classes, lectures, writings, video presentations, and teachings on the southern plains drum. He is committed and ever focused on the goal of the academic, cultural, spiritual, social, political, and economic liberation of Indigenous Peoples.
Dr. Pweweardy 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.
You can get more information on his visit at www.cosw.sc.edu or contact Dr. Sadye Logan, (803) 777-3912.
These events are free to the Public.
