Cate Denial
@cjdenial.bsky.social
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
Happy Halloween, from one of my best costumes of all time (picture not from this year)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Happy Halloween, from one of my best costumes of all time (picture not from this year)
I got 19/20 correct!
September 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I got 19/20 correct!
When you see this, post about something that's brought you joy today. Post a photo, maybe! (Remember alt text!)
September 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When you see this, post about something that's brought you joy today. Post a photo, maybe! (Remember alt text!)
On campus early to move books back into my office before our trimester begins on Monday. Including the Nursing Clio Reader, newly released!!
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
On campus early to move books back into my office before our trimester begins on Monday. Including the Nursing Clio Reader, newly released!!
Timeline cleanse: beautiful birthday flowers
September 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Timeline cleanse: beautiful birthday flowers
When you're giving a talk at St Catherine University (a place that also goes by Kate)
August 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When you're giving a talk at St Catherine University (a place that also goes by Kate)
Not the last time I was in DC, but the last time I took a photo while I was there - when I took a gaggle of students to go behind the scenes at the LoC and the Holocaust Museum, and to visit the Museum of the American Indian.
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Not the last time I was in DC, but the last time I took a photo while I was there - when I took a gaggle of students to go behind the scenes at the LoC and the Holocaust Museum, and to visit the Museum of the American Indian.
My copy of the wonderful -Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff- arrived! I'm honored to have the first essay in this collection; it's far past time for us to talk about all the minds that work (sometimes idiosyncratically, always creatively) in higher ed
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
My copy of the wonderful -Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff- arrived! I'm honored to have the first essay in this collection; it's far past time for us to talk about all the minds that work (sometimes idiosyncratically, always creatively) in higher ed
This is a well-loved copy of Pedagogy of Kindness! Property of Jen Jacobsen from Macalester College
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is a well-loved copy of Pedagogy of Kindness! Property of Jen Jacobsen from Macalester College
New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
August 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
This week I had the enormous pleasure of attending a leadership seminar facilitated by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, New York 6, and Associated Colleges of the South. For the next two years I'm a leadership fellow with this program.
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week I had the enormous pleasure of attending a leadership seminar facilitated by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, New York 6, and Associated Colleges of the South. For the next two years I'm a leadership fellow with this program.
New headshots by the wonderful @legg.bsky.social. If you get the chance to work with John, do it!
May 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New headshots by the wonderful @legg.bsky.social. If you get the chance to work with John, do it!
Oh, thank goodness, it's Flunk Day at Knox College!
May 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh, thank goodness, it's Flunk Day at Knox College!
There is one panel dedicated to a Native man, Chief Heap of Birds, and he is shown in the American military uniform he was forced to wear at the order of Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt refined his ideas for "civilizing" Native people at the fort, and then opened Carlisle Boarding School in 1879.
March 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There is one panel dedicated to a Native man, Chief Heap of Birds, and he is shown in the American military uniform he was forced to wear at the order of Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt refined his ideas for "civilizing" Native people at the fort, and then opened Carlisle Boarding School in 1879.
I'm in St Augustine for a talk and a roundtable, so this morning I went to pay my respects to the Native men imprisoned at Fort Marion after 1875. They are almost entirely erased from the space.
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm in St Augustine for a talk and a roundtable, so this morning I went to pay my respects to the Native men imprisoned at Fort Marion after 1875. They are almost entirely erased from the space.
Today I saw four of the five Great Lakes. The one I didn't see is my favorite (Superior) but it was all very cool nonetheless.
March 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Today I saw four of the five Great Lakes. The one I didn't see is my favorite (Superior) but it was all very cool nonetheless.
Unessay day in The History of Marriage! There'll be more examples of what students created on my website after finals (we're on a trimester schedule, so it's almost the end of term) but in the meantime, here's a poem and image from a book produced by Beth, who gave me permission to share.
March 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Unessay day in The History of Marriage! There'll be more examples of what students created on my website after finals (we're on a trimester schedule, so it's almost the end of term) but in the meantime, here's a poem and image from a book produced by Beth, who gave me permission to share.
A little encouragement from the top of one of my office bookshelves.
February 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A little encouragement from the top of one of my office bookshelves.
My students and I are definitely not having our 8.45am class today. And this is during a lull in the wind! Aie.
January 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My students and I are definitely not having our 8.45am class today. And this is during a lull in the wind! Aie.
I've done a variation on these exercises about attention and focus in all my classes this week (yep, we're already back!). Maybe they'll be helpful to your students, too? catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
January 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've done a variation on these exercises about attention and focus in all my classes this week (yep, we're already back!). Maybe they'll be helpful to your students, too? catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
So excited to have an essay in a new volume about neurodiversity and mental illness in academia, upcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press! Thanks to our fearless leaders, @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social and @readywriting.bsky.social!
December 16, 2024 at 4:24 PM
So excited to have an essay in a new volume about neurodiversity and mental illness in academia, upcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press! Thanks to our fearless leaders, @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social and @readywriting.bsky.social!
I love the Midwest. This was the view from a plane over the weekend, as I returned home, and it made me so happy.
December 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM
I love the Midwest. This was the view from a plane over the weekend, as I returned home, and it made me so happy.