This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.

I'm an anthropologist, writer, educator, and researcher living in Nashville and work for Vanderbilt University. I serve on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation.

I'm particularly interested in representing indigenous peoples and diaspora peoples in Wikipedia, in coverage of creative social movements, and in deepening coverage to look at global conditions related to cities, languages, and everyday life.

I have taught three courses that are part of the Wikipedia Education Program, including most recently: Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Vanderbilt_University/Human_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples_(Spring_2017).

I am involved with two incipient Wikimedia user groups: Tennessee Wikimedians and Wikipedia & Education.

Barnstars and Other Awards

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For your work in creating the Porvenir Massacre article and writing a clear and balanced overview of the incident Pexise (talk) 21:19, 17 February 2010
 
Your neutrality and sensibility are appreciated. Keep up the good work! Noleander (talk) 07:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 
Excellent work on Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. Bearian (talk) 22:54, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 
For one of the most thoughtful comments I've ever seen in an RfC. Noleander (talk) 16:52, 20 March 2013
 
You've just done a very good deed with your rigorous edit of the Sondra Peterson article. Which translates into a very good deed with regard to the Filipacchi/sexism scandal. Bravo! (And be prepared for someone to accuse you of being my sock puppet.) NaymanNoland (talk) 04:50, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 
For quality contributions for more than ten years to articles about indigenous people, women and other groups facing bias, such as African Americans in Tennessee, Sudanese refugees in Egypt and Anna Rügerin, for personal projects such as Coca in Bolivia, for supporting projects such as anti-war and climate change, - user of many languages--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:36, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 
For laudatory work at Presidential transition of Donald Trump LavaBaron (talk) 02:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Some projects

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Some tools

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Stubs I'm considering expanding

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Possible US Social movements articles…

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In Progress

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 This user knows that there are
2,000,000 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.
 This user lives in the U.S. State of Tennessee.
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