Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr Sandra Mizumoto Posey

Personal Biography Statement

Sandra Mizumoto Posey is the Director of Learning Communities and First Year Success and an Associate Professor in the Institute for Women's Studies and Services at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is co-editor, with Teague Bohlen, of the Snarktastic Guide to College Success, forthcoming from Pearson.

Selected Publications

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• A Sisterhood of Solace and Compassion: Community-Building In and Out of the Classroom
  
• Engaging Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Composition and Service-Learning
  
• *Visceral Research and Transformation: How Folklore Can Change the World.
  
• Are You Oppressed If You Don't Think You Are? Defining and Defending Prosperity Among Working-Class Students in a Public University.
  
• Burning Messages: Interpreting African American Fraternity Brands and their Bearers
  
• Grave and Image: Holiday Grave Decorations in a Southern California Memorial Park.
  
• *Dropping Daddy
  

Educational Biography

B.A. Comparative Literature, CSULB
M.A. & Ph.D. Folklore, UCLA

Courses Taught

ANT-2400,ANT-290C,CPD-190A,WMS-2400,WMS-290A,WMS-4970