Call for Participants: CFDE DEI Teaching Fellows

The pedagogies of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) address practical ways instructors can make their classrooms, labs, or clinical settings more welcoming and engaging environments for all. These pedagogies also touch on a range of current issues in higher education, such as unconscious bias and microaggressions, inclusive pedagogy and equity-minded teaching along with how to make our classes accessible to all students. All these issues are the subject of significant debates—not only amongst educators and school administrators, but also within public discourse and mainstream media. This fellowship aims to help faculty build competencies in these areas and then to develop a training that will share those competencies with a broader audience. This cohort starts in January 2025 and ends May 2026.

Aims:

• Support faculty from across the campus as they research and develop a project that focuses on a DEI topic.
• Share research and strategies with the campus community 
• Expand the university’s DEI/Inclusive Pedagogy training curriculum, as faculty add new material to existing offerings 
• Support equitable teaching practices
• Foster disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approaches to inclusive classrooms
• Highlight existing faculty teaching expertise 
• Expand the cohort of people who can lead workshops on discipline-specific DEI issues  

Program:

• Open to all full-time faculty
• 18 months long: starts in January and ends in May of the following year
• $4000 stipend dispersed in four payments into a research or departmental account (it cannot be as salary) 
• Applicants must have a speedtype to which money can be disbursed 

Eligibility

• All full-time faculty engaged in teaching 
• Record of excellent teaching and engagement with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work (or a willingness to learn more about it) 

Applications are due Friday, November 22. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Yanna Yannakakis wins American Historical Association Katz Prize

The American Historical Association has announced legal historian Yanna Yannakakis, professor and department chair of history, as a winner of the Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History for her book Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (Duke University Press, 2023). The prize is awarded annually to the best book published in English focusing on Latin America, including the Caribbean.    

The prize honors Friedrich Katz (1927–2010), an Austrian-born specialist in Latin American history, whose nearly 50-year career inspired dozens of students and colleagues in the field. He was Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Latin American History at the University of Chicago.

Yannakakis writes about her book: "My most recent book . . . traces the invention, translation, and deployment of the legal category of Native custom, with particular attention to how Indigenous litigants and colonial authorities refashioned social and cultural norms related to marriage, crime, religion, land, labor, and self-governance in Native communities. I published the book open access through Emory’s TOME initiative (it can be downloaded via this link)."

Pervasive Trauma and PTSD: the Emory Grady Trauma Project

A long-standing research study here at Emory has discovered that there's a high level of PTSD in minoritized, low-resourced populations. . . . The Emory Grady Trauma Project is a large research program that has investigated PTSD in a civilian population since 2005. . . . Of our participants, more than 80% have experienced two types of trauma, more than two types of events that were life-threatening. Where the US population has 6 to 8% of people with PTSD, and where the veteran population shows about 31%, the Emory Grady Trauma showed rates of PTSD up to 46%, really showing that this repeated exposure and pervasive trauma has a really high percentage of PTSD.    

-- Sanne Van Rooji, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Emory University, BrainTalk Live, September 5, 2024 

Spring 2025 Community-Engaged Learning Grants, Call for Proposals

The CFDE announces the availability of the Community Engaged Learning grants for the spring 2025 semester. Anyone currently teaching at Emory is eligible, including graduate students, adjunct faculty, visiting faculty, lecturers, or tenure track faculty. Please note that Vialla Hartfield-Méndez, CFDE director of community engaged learning, is available for teaching consultations about community engaged pedagogy, syllabus development, partnership cultivation, and general related questions.

Grants may be used to support activities related to well-structured community engagedexperiences in courses or academic programs. Proposals should address how community engaged pedagogy is leveraged to assist organizations with addressing critical community needs in the metro Atlanta area. Such partners might include neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations, public agencies or other similar organizations. Proposals may also be submitted for projects that are in the early stages of community partnership development (especially those that include students in the partnership development work) and/or learning experiences for students that prepare them to better engage with community partners.

Community Engaged Learning Grants cover amounts up to $1500 and are intended to support both new or ongoing opportunities for faculty toincorporate community engaged learning (service learning) into their courses or programs. In some cases, grants may be made to support ongoing or existing community engaged learning activities, particularly when those activities grow to involve more students, new partners or communities, or new strategies. If you have questions about what grants may cover please contact Vialla Hartfield-Méndez (vhartfi@emory.edu).

For more information and to apply, please visit this webpage.

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Acting Professor of African American Studies

Erica Armstrong Dunbar received her B.A. in history and Africana studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Her area of expertise centers the lives of eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women who lived in what would become the United States of America. Her work focuses on the history of slavery and freedom, social history, urban history, and women’s history. While Dunbar is committed to the production of scholarly literature, she is deeply invested in more public facing work—scholarship that reaches large general audiences through television, film, radio, and podcasts.

Dunbar’s first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University in 2008. Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Simon & Schuster), was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a co-winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. The young readers version of Never Caught (Aladdin/Simon and Schuster) was published in January 2019. In the fall of 2019, Dunbar published She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman, an accessible biography of one of the most remarkable social activists of the 19th century. Dunbar’s op-eds and essays in outlets such as the New York Times, The Nation, TIME, Essence, and the New York Review of Books; her commentary in media outlets such as CNN and the LA Times; and her appearances in documentaries such as The Abolitionists, an American Experience production on PBS, the History Channel’s biopic of George Washington, Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Black Patriots, and Ken Burns’s Benjamin Franklin, place her at the center of America’s public history. More recently, Dunbar has expanded her audience by serving as co-executive producer on HBO’s hit television series The Gilded Age.

From 2019-2022, Dunbar served as the national director of the Association of Black Women Historians -- the only professional organization focused on Black women’s history. From 2011-2018, she served as the inaugural director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Monday, November 4 

At 11:30 a.m. at the Luce Center, the Emeritus College Lunch Colloquium presents Stephen Crist, professor of music history and chair of the Department of Music, Emory, who will give a talk titled "Bach and Jazz: Strange Bedfellows?" For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon online, the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Seminar presents Christianne Roumie, professor of medicine, division of general internal medicine and public health, Vanderbilt University, who will give a talk titled "Diabetes Treatments for CVD Prevention." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon in the Woodruff Library Jones Room, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Colloquium presents Frederick C. Knight, professor and chair, history, Howard University, who will give a talk titled "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon at the Emory University Hospital second floor auditorium and online, the Emory Pathology Grand Rounds series presents Danny A. Miller, adjunct associate professor, immunology and infectious diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will give a talk titled "Cancer Care Access: Why does pathology stand in the way of global health?" For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 1 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600, the Aflac Advances in Research Conference presents Marina Michaud, biology PhD candidate in the Bhasin Lab at Emory University, who will give a talk titled "Constructing an Integrated Coding and Non-Coding Single-Cell Transcriptome to Profile the Bone Marrow Microenvironment" and Hope Mumme, computer science and informatics PhD candidate in the Bhasin Lab at Emory University, who will give a talk titled "CAR-Machine: CAR T-Cell Target Identification Platform for Pediatric Acute Leukemia." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 1 p.m. in HSRB II, 6th Floor, Event Space, N600, the CCIV Seminar presents Matthew Woodruff, assistant professor, Emory Department of Medicine's Lowance Center for Human Immunology and Department of Rheumatology, who will speak on "WobbleVax: rEvolutionizing vaccine design." For more information and to register, visit this link.

At 2 p.m. in HSRB Conference Room E459 and via Zoom, the Center for Viroscience and Cure Seminar presents Una O'Doherty, professor and apheresis physician, Emory, who will speak on "The Barcode Project." To register, please visit this link.

At 4 p.m. on Zoom, the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Initiative presents "Living Room Conversations: 2024 Election Season - Are We Ready?" For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 6:30 p.m. in the Woodruff Library Jones Room, the Creative Writing Reading Series presents Josie Tolin, fiction fellow, and Ryan Stevens, playwriting fellow. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Carlos Museum board room, the Carlos Reads series presents Emily Master, associate teaching professor of classics, who will give an in-depth discussion of The Iliad. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Tuesday, November 5      

AAt 9 a.m. on Brainer, Emory HR presents "Crucial Conversations - Day 1," the first part of a two-part career development webinar. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at the Rollins Research Center, the department of pharmacology presents David Vocadlo, professor, Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, who will give a talk titled "Chemical Biology Tools for Understanding the Roles of Glycosylation in Neurodegenerative Diseases." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 2 p.m. on Zoom, the Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center presents Emory BrainTalk Live, a weekly webinar of discussions led by expert faculty clinicians. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage. 

At 2 p.m. on Zoom, the Emory Office of Instructional Technology presents a webinar titled "Using Canvas's New Quizzes Tool." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 6 p.m. at the Harland Cinema, the Department of Political Science presents an Election Watch Party. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Wednesday, November 6

t 10 a.m. at the Emory University Hospital Tower Bridge, Emory HR presents a Diabetes Awareness Health Fair. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 10:30 p.m. on Zoom, the Academic Video Production Team presents a drop-in during which faculty can ask questions about online video: lighting, audio, equipment, storyboarding, flipped classroom projects, graphic design, visual aids, and other media-related needs. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600, the Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines Symposium presents Grace John-Stewart, professor in the departments of global health, medicine, epidemiology, and pediatrics at the University of Washington, who will give a keynote address. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At noon on Zoom, the Emory University Research Committee (URC) presents URC Grants Informational Session. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 1 p.m. at Anthropology room 206, the African American Studies, Anthropology, Creative Writing, Film & Media, Religion, Theater Studies, and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Departments and the Hightower Fund presents Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, associate professor, Arab and Muslim American studies, University of Michigan, who will give a talk titled "From Muslim Cool to Umi's Archive: What Anthropology Can Learn from Black Islam." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 3 p.m. in Candler's Rita Anne Rollins Building room 252, the Candler School of Theology's James T. and Berta R. Laney Program in Moral Leadership and The Candler Foundry present “After the Vote: Understanding and Repairing a Divided Nation,” a post-election forum. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.  

At 4 p.m. on Zoom, Emory Libraries presents a Zotero workshop webinar, presented by Keeza Hameed, science librarian for biology and neuroscience. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 4 p.m. at Whitehead Biomedical Research Building room 400, the Emory School of Medicine presents Gregorio Valdez, associate professor, department of molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry, Brown University, who will give a talk titled "Loss of Mobility with Aging: Are Peripheral and Spinal Cord Glia Responsible?" For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 6:30 p.m. at White Hall room 206, the French and Italian department and the Institute of African Studies presents "Film Screening: Il Moro with Q&A," featuring Daphne Di Cinto (Netflix's Bridgerton). For more information, please visit this webpage.

Thursday, November 7

At 7:30 a.m. in the Emory Student Center multipurpose rooms, the Emory School of Medicine presents the 2024 Department of Medicine Research Day, bringing together researchers from all divisions and provides an opportunity to share exciting new findings, facilitate scientific exchange, and identify potential new collaborations. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 11:30 a.m. in the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center room 1052, the Biology Seminar Series presents Robert Johnson, associate professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, who will give a talk titled "An hourglass mechanism controlling developmental timing in human retinal organoid." For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At noon in the Whitehead Auditorium, the Emory School of Medicine presents Manuel (Manny) Ares, Jr., distinguished professor of MCD biology, genomics institute, University of California - Santa Cruz, who will give a talk titled "A balance between pre-mRNA load and splicing capacity is essential for cell viability." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 1 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Tate Room, the Institute of African Studies presents a Ceramic Workshop with Leilah Bibirye, ceramicist and visual artist. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 2 p.m. on Zoom, Emory HR presents an Annual Enrollment Benefits Webinar. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 5 p.m. at the Anthropology Building room 206, the Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures department presents "The Power of Nakama in Japanese Anime and Manga." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 5:30 p.m. at Callway Memorial Center room S420, the Institute of Liberal Arts presents "Memes & Mandates: Unpacking the Political Moment." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 5:30 p.m. at Candler School of Theology room 360, the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies department presents Tarek Zeidan, visiting fellow, Harvard Law School, who will give a talk titled "Queer Liberation and Political Reform in a Changing Middle East." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 6 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 290, the Institute of African Studies presents Leilah Babirye, ceramicist and visual artist, who will give a talk titled "The Art of Activism." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Friday, November 8

At 9 a.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building II room N100 and on Zoom, the Experimental Pathology Seminar Series presents Guangbo (Bill) Chen, assistant professor, Versiti Blood Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, who will give a talk titled "A Natural Adjuvant Underlies Vaccine Response Variability in Humans." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

Saturday, November 9

At 10 a.m. at Candler Hall, Oxford College Academics, Alumni, Student & Campus Life presents the 20th anniversary of Emory Cares, a service project which puts together care packages for children in Newton County foster care. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 1 p.m. in Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Native American Indigenous Studies Initiative presents "Indigenous Food Sovereignty Symposium," in which food historians, chefs, and ethnobotanists to campus to lead cooking demonstrations centered on Indigenous ingredients, foods, and contemporary reimagining of traditional dishes. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 2:30 in Emory Student Center Multipurpose Rooms and on McDonough Plaza, join leaders, singers, and storytellers for the third annual Muscogee Teach-In. Program will include remarks by Emory and Muscogee leaders, Muscogee hymn-singing, Lecture-demonstration of Muscogee art and culture, and a Stomp Dance. For more information and to register, visit this link.

At 7 p.m. in Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Carlos Museum presents a film screening of Gather, followed by a Q&A with featured chef Nephi Craig. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

Sunday, November 10

At 4 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall, Emory Chamber Ensembles presents student musicians, who will perform chamber works for strings, brass, winds, percussion, and guitar. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Monday, November 11

At 11 a.m. on the Quad, the Veterans Employee Network presents the Annual Veterans Day Ceremony. For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At noon at the Alumni Memorial University Center room 235, the Emory Writing Program Pedagogy Jam presents Gregory Palermo, assistant teaching professor, University Writing Program, Emory University, who will give a talk titled "Teaching Students to Re-contextualize Disinformation." For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.   

At noon at the Woodruff Library Jones Room, the James Weldon Johnson Institute Colloquium presents Emmitt Riley, associate professor, politics and African American Studies, The University of the South, who will give a talk titled "Racial Attitudes in America Today: One Nation, Still Divided." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 5 p.m. at the Atwood Chemistry Building room 360, the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies South Asia Seminar presents Shahla Hussain, associate professor, South Asian History, St. John's University, who will give a talk titled "Land Question in Kashmir: Limitations of the Settler —Colonial Framework." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Monday, November 4, 2024, Volume 25, Issue 11

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