Opened Practices Users in the 24061 Postal Code

113E Burruss Hall (0168)

I am an A/P faculty member working in the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships. As part of this role, I coordinate a small living-learning community focused on civic engagement and instruct a section of the associated LDRS 1015-1016 Exploring Citizen Leadership course series.

3120 Torgersen Hall
(0445)

I have worked in the field of instructional technology, distance education, and professional development since 1999. I have served as a corporate trainer, face-to-face classroom instructor, as an online instructor, as an assistant principal, and currently serve as coordinator for elearning faculty development at Virginia Tech. Some organizations I have worked with include the Virginia Department of Education, Roanoke City Schools, and PLATO.

Shanks Hall

As an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, I have been teaching online since 1996, both as the sole instructor of a course and with other instructors in collaborative enterprises. My academic expertise is in medieval literature and Shakespeare, with a PhD from Cornell University in 1987. My online teaching experience includes courses in Speculative Fiction, Detective Fiction, and the Survey of English Literature. I am currently engaged in research about using wikis as a collaborative means of teaching, and I am supporting that research by using wikis in my own classes in Scholar.

562 McBryde Hall
Blacksburg
VA 24061

Ph.D. in Law and Society (Edinburgh, 1995); MPhil in Criminology (Cambridge, 1990); B.Sc. First Class Honors in Sociology (Calabar, 1985). Author of ADAM: Africana Drug-Free Alternative Medicine (2006); Pan African Issues in Crime and Punishment (co-edited 2004); Counter-Colonial Criminology (2003); Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society (co-authored, 2001); Methodological issues in Migration Research (edited, 2000) and Black Women and the Criminal Justice System (1997). Series Editor, Ashgate Publishers Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations; Editor-In-Chief, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies. Video Producer-Director of Reparative Justice (2002); The Black Jacobin Sociology Series (2008); and Shouters and the Control-Freak Empire (2009).

Professor of Sociology and Director of Africana Studies Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; author of the following books - ADAM: Africana Drug-Free Alternative Medicine, 2006; Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason, 2003; Pan African Issues in Crime and Justice (co-edited), 2004; Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society, (co-authored) 2001; Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research (edited), 2000; and Black Women and the Criminal Justice System: Towards the Decolonisation of Victimisation, 1997. Also Director-Producer-Editor of Reparative Justice, 30 minutes, color, African Independent Television, Lagos, Nigeria, 2002; Director-Producer of CLR James: The Black Jacobins Sociology Series, 13 episodes, NCC Channels 4 and 16, Trinidad and Tobago, 2008. Also Writer-Actor-Director of 'Stranger in Fatherland' 60 minutes drama, Nigerian Television Authority, Channel 8, Enugu, 1983, and Series Editor, Ashgate Publishers Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations. Ph.D. (Edinburgh); MPhil. (Cambridge); B.Sc. First Class Hons(Calabar). Nigerian citizen.