Announcing our 2024 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows!!!!!

The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is excited to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2024 cohort. Competition was unusually strong this year, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort.  Once again, the new Fellows represent wide-ranging interests and a variety of disciplines who will spend the year  working with each and other and engaging with the 2024 theme, “Teaching and Learning with the Smithsonian: Creating Classroom Conversations that foster a hopeful future to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.”

Selected for 2024 SFF Cohort are:  Kay Ahmad (ELAP, GT), Evan Crump (English, RV), Gaddis Effendi (Sociology, TPSS), Sadegh Foghani (HIST, RV), Serena Gould (ELAP, TPSS), Teresa Lew (ENGL, GT), Melissa McCeney (PSYC, GT), Rebin Muhammad (MATH, GT), Ellen Olmstead (ENGL, TPSS) and Ted Shusterman (MUSC, TPSS).

The new cohort will spend the spring 2024 semester focusing on museum learning and pedagogy and will engage with the Smithsonian for a series of in person-seminars and tours led by Smithsonian curators and educators. During the fall 2024 semester, 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 28th year, the MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship is the product of a unique collaboration between the Paul Peck Humanities Institute and the Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology. It is the first of its kind for the Smithsonian Institution and a community college. More than 220 professors have participated in the Fellowship since its inception, guiding more than 20,000 MC students and their families through various Smithsonian museums as part of the program.

Please help us in welcoming our 2024Smithsonian Faculty Fellows!