Inclusiveness and Diversity

Making the Classroom More Fun

Bethany Mostert

My philosophy behind creating comfortable spaces for students of colour, students with disabilities, and queer and trans youth revolves primarily around one key principle: To ensure that these students have to make as few sacrifices in my class as possible regarding their sense of self, expression, and joy for learning.


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Conference Chair Anthropology

Bethany Mostert

If you follow Maeve Bassett's guided tour of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden's medicinal collections at Michigan State University, you'll learn facts about the lifesaving qualities of a G&T, the Doctrine of Signatures, and how psychedelic mushrooms advanced human cognition. To a group of phytochemists, these stories are the basis of our work and may well be the inspiration for some of us.


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