Caitlyn (Ayoka) Wicks

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Last Updated: May 2022

Education

Indiana University – Bloomington, Indiana

Expected Graduation Date: May 2025 – PhD US History & PhD American Studies

Graduated: December 2020– MA US History

GPA 3.9

Missouri State University – Springfield, Missouri

Graduated: December 14th, 2018, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science in Education in History with Honors and Distinction in History Education

GPA 3.89

Graduate Research Interests

Course Work Interests: Native American and Indigenous History/Studies, Gender and Sexuality History/Studies, American Studies, Affect Theory, Labor/Economics and Womxnhood, Memory Studies, Critical Race Theory, Critical Indigenous Studies, Critical Disability Studies, and Critical Queerness Studies.

Proposed Dissertation Topic: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit Movement – and Oral and Legal history of survivors and communities, particularly Lakota communities. I wish to put the stories of Indigenous people in conversation with the legal archive to decolonize the narrative of a “helpful” police presence.

Research Experience

Master’s Degree Seminar Paper

Advisor: Dr. Konstantin Dierks

Location: Indiana University, Bloomington

Description:

oTitle: “Protect Against All Threats Foreign and Domestic: An Analysis of the United States’ Unjust Actions during the #NoDAPL Movement”

oMethods: Traditional historical methods and applied settler colonialism theory; this work is an intervention into previous scholarship that mostly uses a Marxist, legal, or environmental analysis. A focus of this paper was to concretely identify a trend of settler colonialism within governmental and law enforcement agents’ actions and rhetoric.

oArchive: This archive was entirely online (due to the Covid-19 pandemic hitting), including leaked emails from the Federal Aviation Administrations, North Dakota law enforcement, FBI, and the security company TigerSwan. This also included joint reports, operational guidelines, and email transcripts from the United States Department of Homeland Security in addition to North Dakota State and Local agents, all obtained through FOIA requests.

Undergraduate Research Thesis – Submitting for Publication

Advisor: Dr. Sarah Nixon

Location: Reed Academy, Springfield, MO

Description:

oStudied the impact of Indigenous Knowledge on the curriculum of Native American History in an 8th grade Critical Thinking course

oData collected through pre-test, post-test, and focus group interviews.

oFive Lessons taught using indigenous knowledge and primary sources to teach concepts either originally incorrectly taught or left out of the curriculum entirely

oWrote two research articles

“How to Decolonize a Lesson Plan: Methods of Re-Writing Lesson Plans from the Voice of the Oppressed” (Published in The American Historian Nov. 2020)

“Implementation of Native American Perspectives into an 8th Grade Critical Thinking Classroom” (Pending 2nd Author Edits, then will Submit for Publication)

Dissertation – In Progress

Advisors: Dr. David Nichols and Dr. Karen Inouye

Location(s): Pine Ridge, SD; Pierre, SD; Rapid City, SD; Bloomington, IN.

Description:

oThesis Above

oArchives:

Digital Archives – South Dakota Government Website

Newspapers – South Dakota State Archives

Oral History Interviews

Presentation Experience

Teach-In – Hybrid

Date: April 12, 2022

Title: Intersectionality and Labor Activism

Invitation From: Indiana University Graduate Workers Coalition

Conference Presentation - OAH Annual Meeting 2022

Date: April 1-3, 2022

Title: Extractive Economies Pannel

Invitation From: Selection Committee. I submitted my master’s thesis and was selected to present it.

NeuroDiversity Teaching Workshop – Virtual

Date: February 25th, 2022

Title: Neurodiversity in Teaching Workshop

Invitation From: Neurodiversity Coalition and History Department PhD Candidates

Sonoma State Native American Heritage Month Presentation -Virtual

Date: November 2020

Title: “#MMIWG2S – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Girls, and Two Spirit: Activism, Survivance, and Youth”

Invitation From: Dr. Erica Tom and Amal Munayer; Center for Academic Access & Student Enrichment

Indiana University’s Lunch and Learn Speaker Series

Date: February 2020

Title: “What is a Myth?: Cherokee and Mayan Creation Tales”

Invitation From: First Nations Educational and Cultural Center at Indiana University

Conference Presentation - Critical Questions in Education Symposium - Theme: “The Push for Perfection in Education”

Date: October 2016

Title: “The Pressure for Perfection Causes Teachers to Leave the Field or to not Join it in the First Place”

Invitation From: Director of the Symposium – Dr. Steve Jones

Guest Lecturer

For: Dr. Sarah Nixon’s Graduate Level “Multicultural Education” Course

Topic: Native American Experience and Struggles with Authenticity Testing, Erasure, Oppression, and Recognition

Required Readings: “Red Pedagogy” by Sandy Grande (2015 ed.)

Led Paneled Community Discussions During Native American Heritage Month

Location: Missouri State University

In 2014, 2015, and 2016

Topics: “Thanksgiving”, Native American Erasure, Native American Oppression, Two-Spirits, Native American Mascots, Different Arguments on What to Call Native Americans, Native American Religions, Collegiate Underrepresentation of Native Americans

Additional Teaching Experience

Full time Classroom Teacher – High School, 10th Grade, World History and AP European History – Spring 2019

Student Teaching – High School, 11th Grade, American Government and Economics – Liberty High School – Fall 2018

Competitive Debate Teaching and Coaching

oMiddle School (2014-2017)

oHigh School Free-Lance (2014-2017)

oHigh School Hired (2018-2019 – Notre Dame de Sion High School for Girls, Kansas City, MO)

oCollege (Fall 2019 – Present; Assistant coach for Indiana University- Supervisor, Professor Brian DeLong)

Additional Graduate Awards, Skills, and Board Appointments

Lakota Language – Certification in Graduate Reading Proficiency – October 2020

Board of Directors – Learning Plunge

oSpecific duties include advising the board for Women’s History Plunge and Black History Plunge

oAppointed October 2020 - Supervisor Alan Fishel

Advisor Board – Indiana University First Nations Center – Supervisor Dr. Nicky Belle

oGraduate Student Representatives – Appointed September 2020 (2-year term)

Complete Fellowship appointment by the Organization of American Historians including 2 fellowship years, an Editorial Assistantship (Completed Aug. 2022), and a year auditing courses, to cover a 5-year funded program.

Study Abroad

Prague, Czech Republic (Czechia)

Summer 2016

Course: History of Art and Architecture in the Czech Lands

Further References (Not included in Recommendation Letters)

Sarah Nixon

Advisor for Undergraduate Thesis

Cellphone #: 417-***-****

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Dr. Eric Morris

College Debate Coach

Cellphone #: 417-***-****

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Dr. Steve Jones

Education Professor and Director of the Academy for the Education Symposium

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