Employing a feminist pedagogical lens, Man Kaplan will consider the effects and implications of a grade. They will explore how grading practices function within social and institutional structures such as the colonial origins of the education system, racism and ableism in assessment, and the gendered care work of feminist education. They confront grading as a material and institutional framework, and imagine alternative forms of assessment within feminist institutions of higher education.

Man Kaplan is an educator, organizer, and editor based in Central New York and New York City. Their research and teaching centers decolonial feminisms, abolitionist university studies, feminist pedagogies, and transformative justice. They earned their PhD in sociology from Rutgers University in 2022.

Our Brown Bag series repeats every Tuesday at 11:30 am. These talks are catered, free, and open to all.