Dr. Ridgway has a record of teaching excellence including receiving a 5/5 overall evaluation scores for teaching (based on a 100% student response rate) while teaching in History and Literature. They have also been nominated for the John H. Marquand Award for Expectational Advising and Counseling award at Harvard University and recognized multiple times for teaching excellence by the Center for Innovation Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign.

Courses taught and developed

Harvard University, History and Literature

Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America (prepared for Fall 2024)

Archive, Memory, and the Narratives for Living (Spring 2024, co-taught with Dr. Rachel Kirby)

Indigenous in the City (Fall 2023, Fall 2022)

Meaning Making in/of Homeland: Aesthetics of Place and Power (Fall 2023)

Archive, Memory, and Imagination in North America (Spring 2023, co-taught with Dr. Rachel Kirby)

Myth-making, Land, and Belonging in America (Fall 2022)

Senior Honors Thesis* (2023-2024: 1, 2022-2023: 2)

*Act as honors thesis advisor where each student has an individual year-long tutorial (number of tutorials/students per year indicated)

University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

HL90GR

HL97: Sophomore tutorial

HL90FL

HL98: Junior tutorial

HL97: Sophomore tutorial

HL98: Junior tutorial

HL99: Senior tutorial

Instructor of Record

Introduction to American Indian Studies (Spring 2022)

As TA or RA

Introduction to American Indian Studies (Fall 2021)

Black Dances of Resistance (Spring 2018)

Global History (Fall 2017)

AIS 101

AIS101

DANC125

HIST100