Picture a Professor

Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of history and Center for Teaching Excellence director at SUNY Plattsburgh. Recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, she is the author of two historical monographs, numerous articles, and Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers.

Introduction: Embodied Identity, Empowering Pedagogy, and Transformative Learning Jessamyn Neuhaus Part One The First Day: Strategies for Starting Strong 1. How Blind Professors Win the First Day: Setting Ourselves Up for Success Sheri Wells-Jensen, Emily K. Michael, and Mona Minkara 2. Critical Reflexivity as a Tool for Students Learning to Recognize Biases: A First Day of Class Conversation on What a Professor Looks Like Jesica Siham FernAndez 3. Commonalities and Research: A One-Two Punch to Combat STEM Fears and Biases on the First Day of Class Kelly E. Theisen 4. Where's the Professor? First-Day Active Learning for Navigating Students' Perceptions of Young Professors Reba Wissner Part Two Making Connections: Strategies for Building Trust and Rapport with Students 5. Using Experiential Learning to Humanize Course Content and Connect with Students Breanna Boppre 6. Collaborative Rubric Creation as a Queer, Transgender Professor's Tactic for Building Trust in the Classroom Fen Kennedy 7. Reflect to Deflect: Using Metacognitive Activities to Address Student Perceptions of Instructor Competence and Caring Melissa Eblen-Zayas 8. From Absentminded Professor to Epistemic Collaborator: Reframing Academic Expertise through Vulnerability and Metacognition Rebecca Scott 9. Black Man in a Strange Land: Using Principles of Psychology and Behavior Science to Thrive in the Classroom Erik Simmons Part Three Anti-Racist Pedagogies: Strategies for Increasing Equity 10. Beyond Making Statements: The Reflective Practice of Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator M. Gabriela Torres 11. Rippling the Patterns of Power: Enacting Anti-Racist Pedagogy with Students as Co-teachers Chanelle Wilson and Alison Cook-Sather 12. Beyond "Good Writing": Enacting Anti-Racist Policies in Academic Writing Jacinta Yanders and Ashley JoEtta Part Four Teaching with Our Whole Selves: Strategies for Instructional Authenticity and Pedagogical/Professional Success 13. The Superpowers of Visual Ambiguity: Transfiguring My Experience of Colorism and Multiheritage Identity for Educational Good Donna Mejia 14. Sharing Our Stories to Build Community, Highlight Bias, and Address Challenges to Authority Sarah Mayes-Tang 15. Teaching Up: Bringing My Blackness into the Classroom Celeste Atkins 16. Empowered Strategies for Women Faculty of Color Navigating Teaching Inequities in Higher Ed Chavella T. Pittman Index

"Raising awareness of challenges diverse instructors can face when teaching in higher ed classrooms and sharing empowering and tested solutions are both much needed. Picture a Professor does both and more. Grounded in the experiences of scholars teaching in the classroom, the book is a valuable resource for instructors, administrators, those responsible for promotion and tenure decisions, and educational developers partnering with a diverse faculty. Much praise to Jessamyn Neuhaus and chapter authors for addressing the often undiscussed truth that not all instructors who teach are afforded the same privileges."- Tracie Marcella Addy, coauthor of What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching "In this collection, the authors weave scholarship, personal narratives, and practical teaching ideas into an intersectional call to action that, when reflectively implemented, will positively transform our college classrooms for years to come."Travis Thurston, coeditor of Resilient Pedagogy: Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction