Shawn Trenell O'Neal

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Ph.D. | Lecturer
Department of Ethnic Studies

Ph.D., Critical Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022
M.A., History (Global), University of Colorado Denver, 2016
B.A., History; Minor, Ethnic Studies; Honors: with Distinction, University of Colorado Denver, 2012

Dissertation

O’Neal, Shawn Trenell, “Audio Intersectionality: Self-Identification Within the Processes of Interdisciplinary Explorations in Sound, Music, and Performance,” ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, to be published Spring 2023

Online Courses

Coursera: Anti-Racism III, https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-3, January 2022
Coursera: Anti-Racism II, https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-2, May 2021
Coursera: Anti-Racism I, https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1, August 2020

Archives/Book Chapters

O’Neal, Shawn Trenell, et al. “Race and Violence.” Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology (2020). 

O’Neal, Shawn Trenell. “Pan-African Aesthetic: Pan-Africanism in Afro-Beat,” Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism, ed. Reiland Rabaka. (London: Routledge, 2020), 489-502.

Selected Presentations & Performances

Pulsing Equis: a multimedia performance exposing society's control of marginalized peoples (2022, December 9). Performer & contributing creative in collaboration with Lau Malaver. The Atlas Black Box B2 Center for Media, Arts, & Performance, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Pulsing Equis (2021, October 29). Performer & contributing creative in collaboration with Lau Malaver. Recorded Performance in Untitled Creative Fusions “The Spirit Survives” event at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.

Racial Equity Challenge 2021 Conference, Lead Facilitator, March 5, 12, 19, 2021: University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Cognitive Science, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Committee.

Audio Intersectionality Distinguished Speaker Zoom Presentation: Drexel University’s Board of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Ethnic Studies: Thursday July 9, 2020, 3-4:30 MST.

Audio Intersectionality & Recovecos Performance (2020, January 8) Collaboration with Lau Malaver, Live performance at Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art, Religion, and Decoloniality Conference. Center for Media, Religion, and Culture; Williams Village Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Audio Intersectionality PerformanceRe-Sounding and Africanizing Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (2019, April 24). Live turntablist scoring of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis performed at the Boulder Fiske Planetarium, illustrating the deconstruction/reconstruction of a German expressionist, pre–National Socialist film utilizing an art form and aesthetic that is a product of the African/Atlantic diaspora.

ETST 2155 African American History