Keynote Presentation

UM FACULTY PANEL:
STRUGGLING FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE IN AN ERA OF INCIVILITY

Moderated by Provost Royce Engstrom
University Center North Ballroom

About the Panelists

Heather E. Bruce is a Professor of English-Education and Director of the Montana Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. Professor Bruce's research interests focus on race, class, and gender influences on literacy education, peace building rhetoric, and implementation of Montana's legislative promise: Indian Education for All. She is the author of Literacies, Lies and Silences: Girls Writing Lives in the Classroom. 

David L. Moore is a Professor of English at UM. His scholarship includes cross-cultural American Studies, Native American Literatures, Western American Literatures, Peace Studies, Baha'i Studies, literature and the environment, and eco-critical and dialogical literary theory. His book, That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press.  

Tobin Miller Shearer is coordinator of the African-American Studies program and an Assistant Professor of History. Prior to coming to Montana, he co-founded a national anti-racism training and consulting organization known as Damascus Road. He is the author of Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege toward Racial Reconciliation, Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism, and  the forthcoming Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries. 

Professor Janet L. Finn is the Director of the MSW Program. She received a B.A. in psychology from The University of Montana, earned a M.S.W. from Eastern Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Social Work and Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Finn is the author of Tracing the Veins: of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata and  co-author of Just Practice: A Social Justice  Approach to Social Work.