Fall 2022 Course List

• MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
• Primary Instructor: Dr. Heidi Senungetuk

This course is an introduction to a diverse selection of Indigenous musics of North America. Particular attention will be paid to ways in which music articulates and shapes issues of tradition and modernity, place and identity, revitalization and resurgence, and sovereignty and self-determination.

Ethnomusicological and interdisciplinary methods will be used to examine historical and social dynamics behind Indigenous musical and cultural arts in the 21st century.

• MW 10:00am-11:15am
• Primary Instructor: Dr. Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez

When Columbus arrived to Hispanola (now Haiti-Dominican Republic) on December 4, 1492, the moment of first contact between Indigenous peoples, the slaves he brought with him, and the multi-ethnic sailors paved the way for the new racial and cultural formations that made the Americas distinct from Europe.

As borders and empires shifted territory between the Spanish, British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese in North America or what we now call the continental United States, so too did the nature of print culture. The effects of multiple colonizations and governments in North America were documented in the cultural production by an about these groups descending from the Spanish, Indigenous, Africans, and Asians in Latin America as they moved northward and/or were annexed into the United States via war or direct purchase.

As a result, studies of Latinx literature necessarily analyze texts dating back to the fifteenth century, include nineteenth century exile during the Latin American wars for independence, the Civil War, and trace the evolution of this literature through the present.

This first half of the Latinx Literature survey starts with first contact, covers the Spanish period, the Mexican period in the southwest (1821- 1834) the annexation period (1835-1848), the intervention period and U.S. Civil war (1850-1880), and ends with the era of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and Pacific (1898).

• TTh 2:30pm-3:45pm
• Primary Instructor: Dr. Mandy Suhr-Sytsma

We will read texts by Frances Washburn, Deborah Miranda, Craig Womack, Beth Brant, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Tommy Pico, Natalie Diaz, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and others. Readings will include poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. We will also regularly engage Native news media sources. These texts will lead us to discuss issues of sexual violence, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy impacting Indigenous people.

They will also draw our attention to positive experiences of Indigenous sexuality and gender expression. Course requirements include reading, participation in class discussion, informal writing assignments, one short paper, one long paper, and small group conversational assessments at midterm and during our final exam period.

• MW 4pm-5:15pm
• Primary Instructor: Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer

This course examines the history of Native peoples in North America before 1900. Integrating the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies, the class will take an interdisciplinary approach to the past and consider themes such as resistance to colonialism, maintenance of political sovereignty, and adaptation to cultural change.

Because Emory University occupies Muscogee (Creek) land, this course grounds its panoramic investigation of diverse yet interconnected Native American histories with a special focus on the Indigenous peoples who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where the university’s Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located.

Course lectures, assigned media, primary sources, class discussions, and experiential learning opportunities develop both foundational knowledge of Native North American history while also contributing to campuswide efforts to (re)establish meaningful and improved relations with Southeastern tribal nations.

• MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
• Primary Instructor: Dr. Heidi Senungetuk

This course is an introduction to a diverse selection of Indigenous musics of North America. Particular attention will be paid to ways in which music articulates and shapes issues of tradition and modernity, place and identity, revitalization and resurgence, and sovereignty and self-determination.

Ethnomusicological and interdisciplinary methods will be used to examine historical and social dynamics behind Indigenous musical and cultural arts in the 21st century.