Michaeline A. Crichlow | Scholars@Duke

Michaeline A. Crichlow
Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies

I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. My current projects are focused on the sorts of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how these reconfigure their communities and general sociocultural practices. I am also interested in development's impact on social and economic environments, and the way this structures and restructures people's assessments of their spaces for the articulation and pursuit of particular kinds of freedoms. I have attempted to project these perspectives in my recent book, "Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation" (July 2009) and my current project: "Governing the Present: Vistas, Violence and the Politics of Place" that examines the quests for place and freedoms among populations in the Caribbean, Pacific and South Africa. I am also an associate research fellow on a project called 50:50 at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, that examines post-independence socio-economic developments primarily in the Anglophone Caribbean, and suggests new ways for rethinking development in the region. As well I am part of a SALISES international working group, on Rural Resilience and Agricultural Development Studies. The Agrarian component of my contribution to these projects, utilizes the arguments and methodology developed in my earlier text, "Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and State in Development." Combining the theorizing of creolization in my recent text, "Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation," with issues of development particularly related to notions of resilience, sustainability, governance, processes of rural "othering," that emerge from this vibrant and highly productive project; I am better equipped to tackle the question of governance, violence, otherness, and the quest for freedoms-subjects centered in my new work.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012

Contact Information

124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
michaeline.crichlow@duke.edu (919) 681-6947
http://racespaceplace.wordpress.com/

Background
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2019
- Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2006 - 2012
- Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2012
Recognition
In the News
- FEB 11, 2022 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  The Many Meanings of Decolonization
- SEP 3, 2013
  
  Good Question: Who Owns the Commons?
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Jamaica (Country)
- Research
Research
Selected Grants
- Power and its Subjects: Good Governance Dilemmas Under Contemporary Globalization awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2008 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Crichlow, M. A., ed. Carnival Art, Culture, Politics: Performing Life. Routledge Press, 2012.
  - Crichlow, M. A. ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries: Four Caribbean Artists. FHI, Duke University, 2010.
  - Crichlow, M. A. Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Duke University Press, 2009.
  - Crichlow, M. A. Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development. Lanham: Lexington Books, Caribbean Studies Series, 2005.
  - Crichlow, M. A., ed. Informalization: Process and Structure. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  - Crichlow, M. A. Governing the Present: Mapping the Haitian/Dominican Divide in the Politics of Place (In preparation), n.d.
  - Crichlow, M. A. Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments (In preparation), n.d.
- Academic Articles
  - Crichlow, M. A., and D. Philipsen. “Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19.” Cultural Dynamics 33, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 145–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740211014304.
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  - Crichlow, M. A., and G. Davis. “Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 437–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3608565.
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  - Northover, P. M., and M. A. Crichlow. “Notes on the journey toward the future: Négritude, abject blackness, and the emancipatory force of spectrality.” South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 535–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3608631.
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  - Crichlow, M. A., and E. T. Gomez. “Revisiting affirmative action, globally.” Cultural Dynamics 27, no. 1 (March 16, 2015): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374014567362.
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  - Crichlow, Michaeline A. “Categories, Citizenship, Erotic Agency, and the Problem of Freedom.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 147–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873287.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “Introduction: Global Affirmative Action and the politics of Neoliberalism.” Cultural Dynamics 27, no. 1 (2015): 3–18.
  - Metzger, S., F. J. H. Adrián, and M. Crichlow. “Introduction.” Third Text 28, no. 4–5 (September 3, 2014): 333–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2014.940131.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “Islands, Images, Imaginaries.” Third Text 28, no. 4 (special issue) (August 2014): 333–43.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Human traffic-past and present.” Cultural Dynamics 25, no. 2 (July 1, 2013): 123–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013497825.
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  - Crichlow, Michaeline A. “Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010. Tennyson S.D. Joseph. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2011. ix + 231 pp. (Cloth US$ 55.00).” New West Indian Guide 87, no. 3–4 (2013): 476–79. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-12340103.
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  - Crichlow, Michaeline A., ed. “Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power,” 2013.
  - Crichlow, Michaeline A., ed. “Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power,” 2013.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and Patricia Northover. “Rethinking the Mangrove of Caribbean Space and Time.” Social and Economic Studies 61 (December 2012): 216–28.
  - Crichlow, Kathleen, Kathleen Northover, and Kathleen Jenson. “Introduction: Caribbean Entanglements in Times of Crises.” The Global South 6, no. 1 (2012): 1–1. https://doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.6.1.1.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments.” Global South 6, no. 1 (2012): 114–37.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Comment on Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay's "Politics of archiving: Hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta".” Dialectical Anthropology 35, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 317–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-011-9231-0.
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  - Crichlow, M. A., and P. Armstrong. “Carnival praxis, carnivalesque strategies and Atlantic interstices.” Social Identities 16, no. 4 (July 1, 2010): 399–414. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2010.497693.
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  - Various, M. A. “Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture 16, no. 4 (July 2010).
  - Various, M. A. “Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture 16, no. 4 (July 2010).
  - Crichlow, M. A., and P. Northover. “Homing modern freedoms: Creolization and the politics of making place.” Cultural Dynamics 21, no. 3 (November 1, 2009): 283–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374008350278.
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  - Various, M. A. “Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World.” Edited by Michaeline Crichlow and Sean Metzger. Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editors) 21 (November 2009).
  - Various, M. A. “Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World.” Edited by Michaeline Crichlow and Sean Metzger. Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editors) 21 (November 2009).
  - Crichlow, Michaeline A. “Caribbean Land and Development Revisited.” Nwig New West Indian Guide Nieuwe West Indische Gids 83, no. 3–4 (January 1, 2009): 337–40.
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  - Crichlow, M. A., S. Metzger, and P. Northover. “Questioning Freedoms in the Atlantic World.” Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue) 2, no. 3 (2009): 215–25.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “A Response to My Critics in Book Discussion.” Social and Economic Studies 56 (September 2007): 172–83.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and P. Northover. “Freedom, Possibility and Ontology: Rethinking the Problem of Competitive Ascent in the Caribbean.” Edited by C. Lawson, J. Latsis, and N. Martins, 2007.
  - Patricia Northover, Hans-Peter, and Hans-Peter Crichlow MA. “Making Modern S/subjects: Sketching a Method for Theorizing C/creolization in Atlantic History and Fleeing the Plantation (Submitted).” Theory and Society, 2006.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and P. Northover. “Beyond Survival: Rethinking the Strategies for Sustainable Economic Growth in the Caribbean.” Social and Economic Studies 54, no. 3 (2005): 247–74.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Re-centering Resistance in the Context of Globality: Afro-Caribbean People under Colonial Rule.” Edited by B. Gaspar. Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora 2, no. 1 (2004): 54–82.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Neoliberalism, states, and bananas in the Windward Islands.” Latin American Perspectives 30, no. 3 (May 1, 2003): 37–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X03030003004.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “Revisiting Jamaica's 1980s: Maneuvers of an Embattled State Facilitating Neoliberalism from Within.” Social and Economic Studies 52, no. 2 (2003): 29-65.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and F. Ledgister. “Nationalists and Development: The Price of Citizenship in Colonial Jamaica.” Plantation Society in the Americas VI, no. 2 & 3 (2003): 191–222.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “On the Move: The Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program.” International Accents 3, no. 1 (2002): 4–5.
  - Crichlow, M. “Reconfiguring the "informal economy" divide: State, capitalism, and struggle in Trinidad and Tobago.” Latin American Perspectives 25, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 62–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X9802500204.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “Reconfiguring the Informal Sector Divide: State, Capitalism and Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago.” Latin American Perspectives 25 (2), no. 98 (1998): 62–83.
  - Crichlow, Michaeline A. “Book Review.” Identities 4, no. 2 (December 1997): 323–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.1997.9962592.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “The limits of maneuver: Caribbean states, small farmers and the capitalist world economy, 1940s-1995.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 17, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 81–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-81.
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  - Crichlow, M. A. “(Debates): Reply to Besson.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West Indische Gids 69, no. 3 & 4 (1995): 305–9.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “An Alternative Approach to Family-Land Tenure in the Caribbean : The Case of St. Lucia.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West Indische Gids 68, no. 1 & 2 (1994): 77–99.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Report: 'Hunger 1993: Uprooted People' by Marc J. Cohen ed.” Social and Economic Studies 43 (1994): 268–72.
  - Crichlow, Michaeline A. “DUALISM DEBUNKED, MULTIPLE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIIC RELATIONS IN THE ANGLO-CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR” 1, no. 1 (March 1992).
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Dualism debunked: The influence of state, occupational multiplicity in the Agricultural sector in the Caribbean.” Farm and Business 1 (1992): 1–1.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Dualism debunked: The influence of state, occupational multiplicity in the Agricultural sector in the Caribbean.” Farm and Business 1, no. 1 (1992): 44–62.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Farmers and Finance: experience with institutional savings and credit in West Java by H.A.J. Moll.” Social and Economic Studies 40 (1991): 205–10.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Caribbean Land and Development Revisited,. Jean Besson and Janet Momsen editors. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. ix + 276.” New West Indian Guide. 83 (n.d.).
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Power and its Subjects: Development Dilemmas, Postcolonial Restructuring of Rural Spaces/Places/Identities and State Reconfigurations in Contemporary Globalization Processes (In preparation),” n.d.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “An E-bay Imaginary Meets Social Inequality (In preparation),” n.d.
- Book Sections
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Creole Self-Affirmation: De-centering Resistance in the Context of Globalization.” In Intellectual Traditions of the Caribbean, edited by G. Richards and G. et al. University of the West Indies Press, 2010.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and Patricia Northover. “Size, Survival and Beyond: A Critical Under-labouring for Fleeing the Plantation.” In The Thought of the New World: The Quest for Decolonization, edited by Norman Girvan and Brian Meeks, 136–71. Ian Randle Publishers, 2010.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Plantations.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William Darity. Farmington, MI: McMillan, 2007.
  - Northover, P., and M. A. Crichlow. “Freedom, Possibility and Ontology: Rethinking the Problem of Competitive Ascent in the Caribbean.” In Developments in Social Ontology, edited by C. Lawson, J. Latsis, and N. Martins. London: Routledge, 2007.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Part V: Conclusion: Living under the Long Shadows of Capital.” In Informalization: Process and Structure, edited by M. A. Tabak and M. A. Crichlow. Baltimore: JHUP, 2000.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Community Formation: A Study of the Village.” In Postemancipation Jamaica, edited by A. G. Reid, 77:142–45. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “State Class and Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Culture and Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean, edited by S. Ryan, 53–92. St. Augustine Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1996.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Stratification and the Small Business Sector in Trinidad and Tobago (reprint).” In Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: Culture Structure and Conjuncture, 93–118. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1994.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Stratification and the Small Business Sector in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Social and Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, edited by S. Ryan, 191–209. St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research,University of the West Indies, 1991.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Stratification, Pluralism and Economic Power.” In Social and Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, edited by S. Ryan, 52–57. St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Univeristy of the West Indies, 1991.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “La Politique Agricole, l’Etat et le Developpment Rural a Sainte-Lucie (Agricultural Politics, the State and Rural Development in St. Lucia).” In Enjeux Fonciers Dans La Caraïbe, En Amerique Centrale et a La Reunion, edited by C. Deverre, 39–64. Paris: Inra et Karthala, 1987.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Situating “Development’s Agrarian Culture (In preparation).” In The ‘Will to Improve’ and the Demand for Authenticity, n.d.
  - Crichlow, M. A., and P. Northover. “Land Grabs, Imperial Formations and the Politics of Space and Place– Mapping the China Effect in Africa (In preparation).” In Development and Displacement: China and Its Global Footprint, edited by C. Rojas and R. Litzinger. Duke University Press, n.d.
- Book Reviews
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Concepts, Categories and the Politics of Subalternity, a book discussion of Mimi Sheller’s Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Duke University Press, 2015.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Review of Tennyson Joseph, Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010.” New West Indian Guide (Nwig). Brill Academic Publishers, 2013.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Book Discussion with Patricia Northover: Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (response to 3 discussants).” Social and Economic Studies, 2012.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “The Theory of Plantation Economy by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt, University of the West Indies Press, 2009.” Social and Economic Studies, September 2011.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Caribbean Land and Development Revisited by.Jean Besson and Janet Momsen editors, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.” New West Indian Guide (Nwig). Brill Academic Publishers, 2009.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944 by Erna Brodber.” Nieuwe West Indische Gids. KITLV: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2006.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Come in, My Lords, Come in by Stanley French, St. Lucia, West Indies: Cricket and Cricketers.” The Crusader, 2005.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Wizards & Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity & Tradition by Stephan Palmi, Durham: Duke University Press.” Social and Economic Studies, June 2004.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica by Jean Besson, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.” New West Indian Guide, 2004.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Community Formation: A Study of the village in Postemancipation Jamaica by Audley G. Reid. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000.” New West Indian Guide (Nwig). Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “The George Beckford Papers by Kari Levitt ed., Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000.” New West Indian Guide, 2003.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Orpheus and Power by Michael Hanchard.” Identities, 1995.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Hunger 1993: Uprooted People by Marc J. Cohen ed.” Social and Economic Studies, 1994.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “The Jamaican People 1820-1920 by Patrick Bryan.” Nieuwe West Indische Gids 68, (3&4):, 1994.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “An End to Hunger: Social Origins of Food Strategies by Solon Barraclough.” Social and Economic Studies, 1992.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Farmers and Finance: experience with institutional savings and credit in West Java by H.A.J. Moll.” Social and Economic Studies. Wageningen: Agricultural University, 1991.
- Journal Issues
  - . N. “Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Cultural Politics of Affirmative Action.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, 2015.
  - . M. A. “Islands, Images, Imaginaries.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 2014.
  - . M. A. “Human Traffic: Past and Present.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, 2013.
  - Crichlow, M., D. Jenson, and P. Northover, eds. “States of Freedom: Freedom of States.” The Global South, 2012.
  - . Joachim. “Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 2010.
  - . J. “Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World.” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, 2009.
  - . B. P. “Race and Rurality (In preparation).” Edited by M. A. Crichlow. The Global Economy, n.d.
  - . M. A. “Aimé Césaire: Negritude Revisited (In preparation).” Edited by M. A. Crichlow and G. Davis. Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly. Duke University Press, n.d.
- Reports
  - Crichlow, Michaeline, and Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development CNIRD. “Land Use and Land Tenure Patterns in the Windward Islands An Analysis of the Agricultural Sectors of Martinique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Dominica and Grenada, 1970-1990,” 1994.
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Food Utilization in the Caribbean.” Georgetown: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 1989.
  - “Food Utilization in the Caribbean.” Georgetown, 1989.
  - “Intensive Farming and the Land Registration Programme in Choiseul: A Report.” Land Titling and Land Registration in St.Lucia. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin: The Land Tenure Center, 1988.
- Conference Papers
  - Crichlow, M. A. “Globalization, states and agricultural development in the Caribbean: The case of Jamaica and the Windward Islands.” In Land and Sustainable Development: A People’S Focus Conference Proceedings, 13–31. Trinidad and Tobago: CNIRD, 1996.
Artistic Works & Non-Print Media
- Exhibits
  - ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries. Curator. 2010
- Films
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Awards & Honors

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Journal Issues

Reports

Conference Papers

Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

Exhibits

Films

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Service to the Profession