Sam Schmitt [they/them, he/him] is an academic advisor in the Center for Academic Success and Achievement (CASA). Sam comes to CASA as a former Hamline faculty member with over thirteen years experience teaching and working in the field of higher education. Sam is a doctoral candidate in multicultural women’s and gender studies at Texas Woman’s University and holds a master’s degree in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies from Texas Woman’s University and criminal justice/sociology from Washington State University.
Sam’s educational philosophy is rooted in the practice of community care – providing support that balances the rigors of higher education with students’ need for meaning, belonging, connection, and rest.
Treating each other and ourselves with care isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to thrive. Resting isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human.
Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance
Sam’s teaching expertise and research interests include: the contemporary self-care movement and the activist histories of care; pedagogies of care and care praxis in the social justice classroom; abolition and disability justice; feminist/womanist epistemologies and pedagogies; DIY grassroots activism; transgender studies and the LGBT+ archives.
