The Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington announces a new graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship, designed to bring together cross-disciplinary cohorts of graduate students and faculty interested in public scholarship in the cultural disciplines and other fields that work with culture as a form of public practice. Upon admission, students become Simpson Center Public Scholarship Fellows, are assigned a portfolio advisor, and pursue a self-directed 15-credit course of study that includes a capstone project. Coursework begins autumn 2010. For more information on the Certificate in Public Scholarship, visit www.simpsoncenter.org/publicscholarship.
Two University of Washington graduate students have received the
2010 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from American Association of Colleges & Universities. The award recognizes exemplary promise as a future leader of higher education; demonstrated commitments to developing academic and civic responsibility in self and others; and a strong work emphasis on teaching and learning. As Carol Geary Schneider,
AAC&U’s president states, award recipients “represent the finest in the new generation of faculty who will teach and lead higher education in the next decades.”
Shauna Carlisle (Social Work) addresses a wide range of issues related to public policy, demography and epidemiology of health, research methods, and inequality in her teaching. Her research focuses on health disparities among black Caribbean populations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. She has held a resaerch fellowship with the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and a teaching fellowship with the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program at UW Bothell.
Jentery Sayers (English) teaches in the area of digital media and cultural histories of technology with an emphasis on project-based learning. With the support of a Society of Scholars research fellowship, he is currently completing a dissertation on the intermediation of sound reproduction technologies and modern Anglo-American literature. He is the first graduate student to serve on the board of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory), a national consortium advancing interdisciplinary innovation and initiatives.
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