Rate My Professor Rick Lybeck

Lybeck's key publications include the book Critical Social Justice Education and the Assault on Truth in White Public Pedagogy: The US-Dakota War Re-Examined (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which features chapters such as 'Introduction: “Official Perspective” and the Two Senses of Justice,' 'Managing Perspectives, Keeping History “Good” and Safe,' and 'Reopening the Wounds of 1862.' Recent articles comprise 'Cornell Notes from Underground: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and AVID for Higher Education' (Teachers College Record, 2023), 'Undoing Whiteness to Diversify Teacher Education and the Teaching Force' (2022, co-authored with Andrew P. Johnson and Maria-Renee Grigsby), and 'A Public Pedagogy of White Victimhood: (Im)Moral Facts, Settler Identity, and Genocide Denial in Dakota Homeland' (Qualitative Inquiry, 2017). Earlier works include 'The Rise and Fall of the U.S.-Dakota War Hanging Monument: Mediating Old-Settler Identity Through Two Expansive Cycles of Social Change' (Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2015). His research interests encompass critical literacy, critical pedagogy, social justice education, English education, and public history. Lybeck has earned the Professional Excellence Research Torch at Minnesota State University, Mankato and contributes to discussions on literacy education and social justice through faculty responses and conference presentations.