Woo Hoo! Announcing the 2022 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship Cohort!

The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is delighted to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2022 cohort. Once again, competition was strong, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort.  The group represents wide-ranging interests and  a variety of disciplines and will spend the year engaging with the 2022 theme: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC:  The Hurdles Behind, the Urgency of Now, and Moving Forward after Covid.

The  2022 Cohort includes: Erika Bucciantini (World Languages, RV), Dianne Cherry (Communications, TPSS), Jona Colson (ELAP, TPSS), , Amanda LeBleu (ELAP, TPSS), Dijana Maunaga Trajkovic (ELAP, TPSS), Monica Mische (English, RV), Heather Satrom (ELAP, TPSS), Nichole Thomas (Psychology, RV) , Dan Wilson (Sociology, GT) and Kate Wilson (English, GT).

Faculty Fellows will spend the spring 2022 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 2022 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 25th 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 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 2022 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows!