Office Location: Ketchum 281
Pronouns: he / him / his
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Education
Ph.D., Critical Ethnic Studies, 麻豆影院, 2022
M.A.,听History (Global), University of Colorado Denver, 2016
B.A., History; Minor, Ethnic Studies; Honors: with Distinction, University of Colorado Denver, 2012
Research Interests
Critical race and ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, social justice, Africana studies, performance studies, women of color feminisms, colonization and settler colonialism, race, sexism, feminism, gender, and queer and trans of color critiques
Affiliations
Center for African & African American Studies听(CAAAS)
Faculty Fellow, Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute
Dr. Shawn Trenell O鈥橬eal is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, an Executive Committee Member of the Center for African and African American Studies听(CAAAS), and a renowned DJ and audio producer.听Dr. O'Neal is also a founding member and faculty fellow听in Lyripeutics Storytelling: Remixing Our Reality Through Hip Hop Education with the Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute. His research includes African American studies, Africana studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, queer and trans of color critique, and women of color feminisms. Dr. O'Neal听developed an interdisciplinary and intersectional theoretical concept called Audio Intersectionality, upon which he based his dissertation. Audio Intersectionality are interdisciplinary herstories and histories, active responses, self-narratives, self-defenses, traumas, and celebrations, regarding race, gender, and sexuality communicated through sound, music, and performance. Dr. O鈥橬eal earned the distinction of being awarded听the first dissertation completion fellowship from the CAAAS,听(2022-2023). His dissertation is titled听"Audio Intersectionality: Self-Identification Within the Processes of Interdisciplinary Explorations in Sound, Music, and Performance." Dr. O鈥橬eal鈥檚 work appears in Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020).
Selected Publications
Dissertation
O鈥橬eal, Shawn Trenell, 鈥�,鈥� ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2023.
Online Courses
Coursera: Anti-Racism III, , January 2022
Coursera: Anti-Racism II, , May 2021
Coursera: Anti-Racism I, , August 2020
Archives/Book Chapters
O鈥橬eal, Shawn Trenell, et al. 鈥�.鈥� Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology (2020).听
O鈥橬eal, Shawn Trenell. 鈥�,鈥� Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism, ed. Reiland Rabaka. (London: Routledge, 2020),听489-502.
Selected Presentations & Performances
Pulsing Equis: a multimedia performance exposing society's control of marginalized peoples听(2022, December 9). Performer & contributing creative in collaboration with Lau Malaver. The Atlas Black Box B2 Center for Media, Arts, & Performance, CU 麻豆影院, 麻豆影院, CO.
Pulsing Equis (2021, October 29).听Performer & contributing creative in collaboration with Lau Malaver. Recorded Performance in Untitled Creative Fusions 鈥淭he Spirit Survives鈥� event at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
Racial Equity Challenge 2021 Conference,听Lead Facilitator,听March 5, 12, 19, 2021: 麻豆影院, Institute of Cognitive Science, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Committee.
Audio Intersectionality Distinguished Speaker Zoom Presentation: Drexel University鈥檚 Board of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the 麻豆影院 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听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, 麻豆影院, 麻豆影院, CO.
Audio Intersectionality Performance: Re-Sounding and Africanizing Fritz Lang鈥檚 Metropolis (2019, April 24).听Live turntablist scoring of Fritz Lang鈥檚 Metropolis performed at the 麻豆影院 Fiske Planetarium, illustrating the deconstruction/reconstruction of a German expressionist, pre鈥揘ational Socialist film utilizing an art form and aesthetic that is a product of the African/Atlantic diaspora.
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