1. Engaging in Community to Explore Race in a Local Context
Event Type
Event
Start Date
27-2-2023 2:10 PM
Description
Castel Sweet (cvsweet@olemiss.edu) is Director of the Center for Community Engagement in UM’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Dr. Sweet is a sociologist who explores the intricacies of community, culture, and race. Through her work as a community engagement professional, she encourages the unknown to be explored, endeavors to make the unfamiliar familiar, and seeks to cultivate relationships that are transformational instead of transactional.
Annette Kluck (askluck@olemiss.edu) (in absentia) serves as the Dean of the Graduate School and a professor of Leadership and Counselor Education at The University of Mississippi. As a faculty member and administrator, Kluck has facilitated opportunities for graduate students to visit historical sites so they might learn from the past history of injustice within the place and work towards a more socially just future.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Sweet, Castel and Kluck, Annette S., "1. Engaging in Community to Explore Race in a Local Context" (2023). Faculty and Graduate Student Forum on Race and Ethnicity. 26.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/forum_race-ethnicity/2023/schedule/26
1. Engaging in Community to Explore Race in a Local Context
Castel Sweet (cvsweet@olemiss.edu) is Director of the Center for Community Engagement in UM’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Dr. Sweet is a sociologist who explores the intricacies of community, culture, and race. Through her work as a community engagement professional, she encourages the unknown to be explored, endeavors to make the unfamiliar familiar, and seeks to cultivate relationships that are transformational instead of transactional.
Annette Kluck (askluck@olemiss.edu) (in absentia) serves as the Dean of the Graduate School and a professor of Leadership and Counselor Education at The University of Mississippi. As a faculty member and administrator, Kluck has facilitated opportunities for graduate students to visit historical sites so they might learn from the past history of injustice within the place and work towards a more socially just future.