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Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

Teacher. Author. Filmmaker. Photographer.

  • Articles
  • Films
    • Rock Castle Home
    • Border Crossing 101
    • Faces of Time | Los Rostros del Tiempo
    • Homeplace Under Fire
    • Brother Towns | Pueblos Hermanos
    • Plate Tectonics
    • We Shall Not Be Moved
    • The Guestworker
  • Books
    • Going Over Home
    • Border Odyssey
    • Spirits of Just Men
    • The Old German Baptist Brethren
    • Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations
    • The Human Cost of Food
    • Maya Identities and the Violence of Place
  • Teaching
    • Plate Tectonics
  • Projects
    • Pilgrimage to America’s Sacred Spaces (PASS)
  • Bio
  • Contact

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Teaching

Students capture an image of the Mosaic Garden on Duke's campus
Students capture an image of the Mosaic Garden on Duke’s campus

I believe in teaching, engaging in, and presenting my scholarship in creative ways, as much as possible through collaborative partnerships with individuals and community groups. I strive to do long-term fieldwork that builds on relationships with communities and to make my writing, oral history, photography, and filmmaking connected to real people and their concerns. I seek to promote progressive change by amplifying voices and illuminating social injustices. I believe that education and the practice of change are inseparable. I strive to combine learning with ethics and responsibility to others.

There is no one-way communication, and I believe it’s impossible to understand social issues without engagement with communities outside the academy. My goal as an educator is to encourage others to do community-based work. To teach is to believe that each student has the potential to change the world.

~ Charlie


Teaching Projects

cropped-Banner-tractorAs part of a Duke university-wide course in 2015 entitled, “Critical Food Studies, co-taught with the Duke Dean of Arts and Sciences, I directed a series of videos entitled, “Plate Tectonics.” Each of the themes is food and farm-related, many of them in North Carolina, but one ranging all the way to Iowa. A link to these video shorts, which were shown one-a-week in the course, is here: cdthomps.com/plate-tectonics.

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