2025: Mary-Kate Sableski, Milestone Book Selection
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Year of Recognition
8-16-2025
Recognition
Promotion to the rank of Professor, Department of Teacher Education
Book Selection
Watercress, by Andrea Wang; illustrated by Jason Chin
Keywords
Academic tenure, promotion, professional milestone
Recommended Citation
Sableski, Mary-Kate, "2025: Mary-Kate Sableski, Milestone Book Selection" (2025). Milestone Recognition Program. 186.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/svc_milestone/186
Why the honoree chose the book
Watercress is an award-winning book about the daughter of Chinese immigrants, grappling to understand how her heritage fits into her identity as an American girl. The text is lyrical and complex, and the illustrations and words integrate to tell a multilayered story. Throughout the story, the girl grows in understanding of how her family’s history is also her history and how, rather than making her strange or different, it is part of her identity. This book exemplifies the Marianist approach to preparing future teachers — educating for service, justice and peace; embracing adaptation and change — that I aspire to in my work.