Research Guides
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American Ethnic (African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano) Studies Librarian
How I Can Help You
For students, I can:
- Recommend the best databases (search tools) to search for your research topic
- Answer your questions via email, phone or Zoom
- Meet with you individually to hash out your topic or discuss research strategies
- Help you clarify your research question
- Describe library services to you
For faculty, I can:
- Track down tricky citations
- Do a quick literature review
- Introduce your students to research tools and strategies
- Create a Research Guide tailored to your class assignment
- Discuss ways to best incorporate research skills and library materials into your class assignments
- Meet with your students individually via Zoom
- Acquire books and other material needed for your research
- Describe library services
- Serve as a liaison communicating the department's concerns and needs to the University Libraries
Library Guides
Subject and class guides created by me to help you with your academic work:
- AFRAM 272 History of the South Since the Civil War
- AFRAM 334: Civil Rights & Black Power
- AIS 475 Northwest Native Peoples and the Flora of the Pacific Northwest
- American Ethnic Studies
- American Indian Studies
- CHSTU 255 A: Mexican Women: Past and Present
- ENGL 198 / AIS 102: Interdisciplinary Writing/American Indian Studies
- ENGL 299 / NUTR 200 Nutritional Sciences
- Good Reads
Subject Guide
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