Announcing the 2021 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows !!!!

The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is delighted to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2021 cohort. o surprise, competition was again very  strong, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort.  The group represents wide-ranging interests and disciplines and will spend the next year considering the 2021 theme: Facing the Complex, Multiple Challenges of the 21^st Century.

The cohort includes: Zev Cossin (ANTH, RV), Mary Margaret Delaney (English, RV), Howard Feinstein (Political Science, RV), Rashi Jain (ELAP, RV), Naliyah Kaya (Sociology, TPSS), Molly Kunselman (Interior Design, RV), Stephanie Landon (ELAP, RV), Opeyemi Oniya, Sr. (Microbiology, TPSS), Sara Parent-Ramos (Art, RV) and Alessandra Sagasti (Biology, TPSS).

Faculty Fellows will spend the spring 2021 semester focusing on museum learning and pedagogy and will engage with the Smithsonian for a series of seminars and tours led by Smithsonian curators and educators. During the fall 2021semester, they will implement new theme-based lessons and assignments that integrate museum objects and collections with required course content. In the Fellowship, students and faculty experiment with time-tested and novel pedagogical approaches to help MC students formulate their own questions, generate knowledge, and develop more sophisticated approaches to critical thinking and problem-solving.

Now entering its 25th year, the MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship is the product of a unique collaboration between the Paul Peck Humanities Institute and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access. It is the first of its kind for the Smithsonian Institution and a community college. More than 200 professors have participated in the Fellowship since its inception, guiding well more than 20,000 MC students and their families through various Smithsonian museums as part of the program.

Please help us in welcoming our 2021 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows!