About Michal
Michal teaches in the Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and is also deeply committed to community and popular education aimed at activists, community members and others not in school that see the importance of actively studying and (un)learning what it means to be a change agent in these intense times of crisis. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology, a certificate in Cultural Studies, and has recently been training in various healing modalities, including Somatic Experiencing, Collective Trauma Healing, mindfulness, all of which she employs in the classroom and beyond.
Michal believes that learning how to live into a resilient future requires a pedagogy that considers theory, history, and philosophy as well as more practical, spiritual and embodied knowledges and practices. Her courses, research and writing focus on new paradigms of social change, in particular, those emerging from various social movements as well as other sources of relational or non-dualist thought and action. (These range from feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist social movements like the Zapatistas and prison abolitionism, to complexity and systems theory in science, as well as spiritual philosophies and practices including Buddhism and various forms of contemplative and embodied practices and thought.)
Michal is also a mother and radical homemaker who loves MAKING LIFE through gardening, cooking & feeding others, eating, making tea blends and medicinal concoctions, raw desserts, and dancing!
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Courses at UNC Chapel Hill past and present:
-Social Change in Times of Crisis: Knowledge Action and Ontology
-Introduction to Global Issues and Globalization
-Paradigms of Development and Social Change (Service Learning Component)
-Introduction to Global Studies (MA course)
-Social Movements Rethinking Globalization
-Global Studies Internship, Undergraduate & Graduate
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Coming Soon!