Faculty
Donald E. Colley III
Teaching Instructor
Department of Geography
344 Social Sciences & Humanities
405-744-9171
About
Since coming of age as a millennial during the Occupy Protests and the Arab Spring,
I have been invested in activism in theory and praxis. During recent years, I have
studied the grass roots support of Bernie Sanders, the emergence of the group No Justice
No Pride and Black Lives Matter. My focus on these movements is the way that young
people have used new media (social media, messaging apps, forums, comment sections,
etc.) as means of organization and community-building. Additionally, I have studied
the 'dark side' of social media in relation to the online treatment of women and minorities
inside and outside of social movements.
Because of this, my teaching interests have been focused on Honors Cultural Geography
around the topics of Political Geography, Geopolitics and the Global Economy, as well
as Race and Racism on the University campus and in the classroom. Specifically, I've
become invested in the Geographic Education community on the effects of teaching current
events and minorities in honors education. I also teach Geographies of New Media and
Geographies of Music with an emphasis on politics and representation.