PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“We” Stand a Chance: Reflections on Impact, Ethics, and Integrity. Global Impact Producers Alliance, Provocations Column. (2024)
“Teaching to Refuse & Reclaim: A letter of gratitude to bell hooks.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Special Issue Honoring the Legacy of bell hooks. (2022)
Using Media to Know Better, Teach Better. PBS Learning Media, Teachers Lounge. (2019)
Deceptive campaigning, “anti-whiteness,” and hopes for a new Texas. The Daily Texan. (2018)
Two Poems: The Reach of Justice & Rubin Stacy from Teaching Terror. EcoTheo Review. (2017)
A Dialogue with the Curriculum of Our Nation: Remembering Philando Castille. Rethinking Schools. (2016)
academic writing
Unremarkable Violence and the Politics of Relation: Education and the whiteness of institutional response discourse. Dissertation, 2021.
“On and beyond traumatic fallout: Unsettling political ecology in practice and scholarship.” Journal of Political Ecology, 28. 677-695. Moulton, A.; Velednitsky, S.; Harris, D.; Cook, C.; Wheeler, B. (November 2021)
“Active words in dangerous times: Beyond liberal models of dialogue in politics and pedagogy.” Curriculum Inquiry. De Lissovoy, N. & Cook, C. (March 2020).
“Collective turning and modern day persons unknown: An ideological critique of white supremacy in public.” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 34(4). (September 2019).
“Staying with the trouble:” grapplings with the more-than-human in a qualitative inquiry course.” Qualitative Inquiry. Special Issue: What Do Pedagogies Produce? Thinking/Teaching Qualitative Inquiry. Nxumalo, F.; Cook, C.; Cedillo, C.; Rubin, J.; Hendrix, A.; Scott, M. (August 2019).
Scripted Fantasies and Innovative Orientalisms: Media, Youth, and Ideology in the Age of the “War on Terror.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 1(15), 1-14. De Lissovoy, N., Ramaprasad, V., Cedillo, S, & Cook, C. (2016).
Cultivating Communities of Care: Story Circles as Social Justice Practice. In S. Pennell, A. Boyd, H. Parkhouse, & A. LaGarry (Eds.), Possibilities in Practice: Social Justice Teaching in the Disciplines. NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Cook, C. & Martinez-Nichols, C. (2017).
related professional experience
Fall 2024
Mentor & Pitch Training Workshop Leader | Berlinale’s EFM Doc Toolbox Program
Jury Member | Austin Film Festival, Documentary Shorts
Spring 2024
Mentor & Workshop Leader | Austin Film Society, Doc Intensive (with David Osit & Lana Wilson)
Performance Producer, Impact Producer, Communications & Marketing | Etched In Light, a participatory visual art and sonic performance led by Cassils in collaboration with the National Center for Transgender Equality and 100 trans & gender expansive artists & community members.
SXSW Programming Mentor
Winter 2024
DocShop Panelist | Big Sky Film Festival, “What is Impact?” in Conversation with Ellen Schneider
Summer 2023
Producer & Programmer | Hot Takes Queer Documentary Series
Winter 2023
DocShop Panelist | Big Sky Film Festival: “Building Trust: Documentary Film & Media Literacy”
Fall 2023
Panelist | Austin Film Festival
Spring 2022
Advisory Board Member | MediaMKRS, a Reel Works Initiative (ongoing)
Winter 2021
Producer, Director, & Curator | POV Watch Club on PBS Learning Media an ongoing anti-racist Virtual Professional Learning Series in collaboration with PBS Education for educators interested in liberatory education & critical media literacy
Summer 2021
Content Advisor | Muhammad Ali, PBS Learning Media |Supported a cohort of educators developing curricula in relation to Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon’s Muhammad Ali
Curriculum Consultant, PBS Learning Media | Developed “Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching Library” for PBS Learning Media’s Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching, Season 2. PBS Children’s Media & Education, p. 21-29.
Summer 2020
Speaker, PBS Learning Media’s “Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching: Using Media to Know Better, Teach Better” (Highlight Reel)
Fall 2019
Lead Research & Development Consultant | The Center for Racial Equity and Inclusion, Chattanooga, TN
Winter 2018
Conference Presentation On Philosophical Perspectives on Relational Ethics and Educational Politics “We in the Wake: Relational Im/possibilities for Anti-Racist Solidarity in Education” | American Educational Studies Association, Greenville, SC.
Conference Presentation: “Active words in dangerous time: Beyond Liberal and Neoliberal models of dialogue in politics and pedagogy” | American Educational Studies Association, Greenville, SC
Conference Presentation In Unsettling Political Ecology: Dialogues on the Legacies of Trauma Symposium, “Daddy Lessons: An auto‐ethnography of Haunted Feminist Becomings” | Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY
Spring 2018
Interactive Installation & Sound Artist, HIVE Art Collective, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
Winter 2017
Conference Presentation: In Memories of Social Justice Teaching Practices Symposium, “Cultivating Communities of Care: Story Circles as Social Justice Practice” (Book Chapter) | American Educational Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
2016-2019
Poet-in-Transience, Typewriter Rodeo, Austin, TX
Spring 2016
Curriculum Developer & Facilitator | Austin Bat Cave, The Phoenix House, Austin, TX
Summer 2015
Teaching Artist, Writing Facilitator | Truth Be Told, Hilltop Prison Unit, Gatesville, TX