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about immigration detention, community-based alternatives, and mobilizing collective action to support more humane migration management methods. The unifying thread that runs through my research is a commitment to an ongoing interrogation and critique of immigration controls and enforcement, the increasing intertwinement with the criminal legal system, and the (over)use of human confinement in civil immigration matters. Underlying this critical engagement is an aim to cultivate the development of

achieve this goal, I try to teach students to apply the material in their own lives and become good critical consumers of information. I believe that education is not something that can be handed to students during the course of their college careers. Education is an active process that requires commitment from both student and professor. Ultimately, students need to be responsible for their own learning and professors encourage and challenge them to grow.  It is important to me that my students to be

of being mystical and impossible, but it’s not when it’s broken into its most simple concepts. It’s all around us: driving a car, making music, flying in an airplane, drinking through a straw, riding roller coasters… It can be very satisfying to understand the physical phenomena in the world around you. The value of physics is that it is a way of thinking, not just a piece of knowledge. The most important thing you can take from a physics class is the ability to look at a problem that you have

. Roth and Jessica K. Sklar. "Mathemalchemy: A Playful Pandemic Project." MAA FOCUS 2021: 20-23. Jessica Sklar. "Math, Art, Abstraction: A Conversation with Bronna Butler." Math Horizons Vol. 28:3, 2021: 8-11. Jessica Sklar. "Gardner Gems with Bronna Butler." Math Horizons Vol. 28:3, 2021: 35. Sklar, J. and Edgar, T. "A Confused Electrician Uses Smith Normal Form." Mathematics Magazine Vol. 89, 2016: 3-13. "Thinking outside the box: application versus discovery in Saw and Cube." Mathematics in

: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.02.022 Resendiz, M., Horseman, T.S., Hover, A.J., Bradley, D.F., Lustik, M.B., West, G.F. (2020). Assessment of Surgical Instrument Bioburden After Steam Sterilization: A Pilot Study. American Journal of Infection Control, 48 (2), 219-221, doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.08.018. Torres, L., Nelson, F., West, G. (2020). Exploring the Effects of a Nurse-Initiated Diary Intervention on Post–Critical Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. American Journal of Nursing, 120(5), 24

, Literatures, and Politics.” Paper: “The Christian and the Atheist: Jean Paton and Madalyn Murray O’Hair and How the Stigma of Illegitimacy in the 1950s Radicalized their Lives”, The Claremont Colleges, CA (March 22–25, 2012) Selected Articles "The Sentimentalization of Adoption: A Critical Note On Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the Priceless Child." Adoption & Culture Vol. 5, forthcoming. "The History of the Law of Adoption in the United States." Bibliography issue, Adoption & Culture Vol. 4, 2014: 32-42. "The

Pedagogy of Sámi Place,” a pedagogical research project in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Sápmi, Summer 2016 Kelmer Roe Grant, Humanities Division, Pacific Lutheran University, for “Language Revitalization and Critical Indigenous Pedagogy,” joint project with Suzanne Crawford O’Brien and Kelly Hall, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 NORTANA Travel Grant, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Summer 2011 NORTANA Housing Grant, The Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America, Summer and Fall

Contemporary LGBTQ Literature 2008: "Charles Busch." The Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature 2008: "Thinking Inside the Box." Playscripts Blog "Broadway Musicals." The Nineties in America, Salem Press "Terrence McNally." The Nineties in America, Salem Press "Design for Living." The Nineties in America, Salem Press "Group Theatre." The Nineties in America, Salem Press Accolades 2021 Faculty Excellence Award in Advising Winner: Hillsboro Artists Regional Theatre Page to Stage contest Official