2015 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Modern Food Choices, Using Information From Our Ancestors: How Far Back Should We Go For Our Information? Amanda Buxbaum (Nutrition/RV)
Immigrant: Beyond the Single Identity Jonathan Colson (AELP/TPSS)
A Reflection of America’s Identity at the National Portrait Gallery: Towards an Agenda on Immigration and Migration in a New Century Lee Edgecombe (Music/TPSS)
Together We Can Achieve More: Discovering Connections and Thinking Critically about Immigration in Classroom and Museums Settings Jamie Gillan (English/RV)
Defining the Content of Americans’ and Immigrants’ Identity: Finding Representations that define Americans’ as well as Immigrants’ Identity in Museums Catherine Kramer (Psychology/G)
Exploring Immigrant Sculptors in Smithsonian Collections Zdeno Mayercak (Art/RV)
Aging Among Immigrants: Are They Different? Takiko Mori-Saunders (Sociology/RV)
Communication and Immigration Through the Smithsonian Lens Maria Pedak-Kari (Communication/G)
The Museum of Immigration and American Identity Lynn Roessner-Ankney (English/TPSS)
Learning Anthropology at the Museum Maria Sprehn (Anthropology/G)
Thinking, Listening, Observing: Communicating with Self and the Other through Object-based Integrative Learning Anestine Theophile-LaFond (Communication/RV)
2014 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Columbian Exchange: Discussing Cultural Change through Cultural Diffusion in an “American Debate” class at Montgomery College Isaiah Ayafor (English/RV)
Worlds in Collision: The European Appropriation of the America Salvador DiMaria (English/RV)
Cross-Cultural Exchange- A Self Portrait Maggie Gourlay (Art/RV)
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Writing Expedition in English 101, Introduction to College Writing Kateema Lee (English/RV)
Legendary Exchanges Transforming our Lives: from the Old World to the New World and Vice-Versa Maria-Elvira Luna-Escudero-Alie (Italian/TPSS)
Native American Medicinal Plants, Food, and the Smithsonian Experience Cyrus MacFoy (Biology/TPSS)
American Identity in the Past and Present Beverly Ryan (Art/G)
Exploring the Worlds of Communiucation Beverly Spencer (Communications/G)
Immigration and Migration: Smithsonian Project Vitaliy Shvetsov (Mathematics/TPSS)
2013 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Biology: Humans of Progress Forging American’s Identity Antonio del Castillo-Olivares (Biology/RV)
Visual Arts: A Cultural Journey at the Museum Grace Graham (Photography/G)
Pioneer Manhood in America Michael LeBlanc (English/TPSS)
America’s Identity: Looking Inside or Outside In? Who Are We? Evelyn Gonzalez-Mills (Counseling/TPSS)
The Encounter is Now: Finding “El Dorado” at Montgomery College Allyson Lima (Spanish/RV)
Exploring Research Methods for the Visual Artist Lincoln Mudd (Art/TPSS)
Cultural Hybridity at Montgomery College: The Smithsonian Promoting Critical Thinking to Transform the Identity of the “American” Composition Course Rebecca Portis (English/RV)
Teaching EN102 with an Identity-Based Model of Social Change Rebecca Razavi (English/RV)
Who Am I?/Who Are We? Patricia Ruppert (Philosophy and W&GS/RV)
In the Beginning, I-Search: America on the Move/Students on the Move to the Argumentative Research Paper Marianne Szylk (English/RV)
2012 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Identity in America- A Complex Journey Elissa Abod (Psychology/RV)
The Search of Identity through Jazz Dance Sandra Atkinson (Dance/RV)
Relating Identity and Social Issues through Museum Objects Zachary Benavidez (English/RV)
The Paradox of Identity in the Creative Process David Carter (Art/G)
Divergent Engagement: Questing Identities in English 101 Swift Dickison (English/RV)
We Eat What We Are: Exploring How Identity Influence Alyson Escobar (Nutrition/RV)
Defining Identity through Technical Theatre R. Scott Hengen (Technical Theatre/RV)
No Bones About It: It’s All About Bones Connie Holy (AELP/RV)
College Student Identity: Part Time, Full Time or in Jay Marciano (Counseling/TPSS)
Finding Voices Angela Nissing (AELP, English/TPSS)
The Roots of Identity: Seeking What Creates and Develops American Identity Bette Petrides (English/RV)
2011 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Race, Identity, and Representation in the 21st Century (17:47) Daiyyah Abdullah (English/RV)
Turning on the Sounds of History (13:17) Marcia Bronstein (English, Reading/ TPSS)
Rosa Parks’ Handbag: Exploring Visual Arguments on Identity and Social Issues through Museum Exhibits and the Internet (24:31) Genevieve Carminati (English/RV & Women’s Studies Program)
Race + Economics – A Smithsonian Experience (22:51) Satarupa Das (Economics/TPSS)
Identities: Changing Perceptions of Native Americans and Ourselves (10:00) Marian Graham (Social Sciences/TPSS)
Coloring Brutality (26:58) Michaele Harrington (Adjunct, Art/ RV)
Exploring the Human Race in the Classroom and at the Museum: Bridging Anthropologists’ and Laypersons’ Concepts of Race and Ethnicity (17:54) Marisa Prosser (Adjunct, Anthropology/ GT)
Identifying Identities – Others and Ourselves Maria Sprehn (Anthropology, RV)
Developing Critical Thinking Skills through Integrating Museum Exhibits (12:57) Deborah Stearns (Psychology/ RV)
There Are More Than Just Dead Things at the Museum (25:13) Michael Tims (Biology/TPSS)
2010 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
Using the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins to Enhance Teaching about Race and Worldview in a Cultural Psychology Course (15:25) Andrea Brown (Psychology/RV)
Exploring the Human (16:03) Cathryn Carroll (English, GT)
Evolutionary Nutrition, How Race Matters (22:14) Sara Bachman Ducey (Nutrition and Food/ Hospitality Management/ RV)
A Post Racial Society? Developing a Global Perspective in a Nation of Immigrants (10:23) Ada Garcia-Casellas (Counselor, Center for International and Multicultural Students Student Development/ GT)
Embracing Education as a Civil Right and Examining Elements of Success (13:12) Nancy Lawrence Hill (Mathematics, TPSS)
Exploring Social Movements: An Examination and Discussion of Race through Research and Writing Kateema Lee (English, GT) (unpublished)
Learning the Fluidity of Realities by Examining Museum Representations (14:19) Takiko Mori-Saunders (Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice, RV)
Got museum? Enhancing Reading Skills Outside the Classroom (6:50) Sadi Sahbazian (American English Language Program/ TPSS)
Teaching Language through History (16:22) Alicia Sanderman (Reading, English as a Second Language, and Linguistics & Reading and Writing Center Tutor/RV)
Montgomery College Students Visit the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (27:42) Alonzo N. Smith (History/Political Science/ RV)
Are We There Yet? Following the Long and Twisted Highway of America’s Racial History: From Slavery to President Obama (17:44) Karl T. Smith (Social Sciences, TPSS)
2009 Faculty Fellows and Reports and youtube.com Links
A Lens on Social Justice: The Greensboro Four (9:01) Mimi Mann (English/RV)