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Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

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Special issue of TLA: Teaching Migration

Special issue of TLA: Teaching Migration

Teaching & Learning Anthropology is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue on Teaching Migration. An introduction from editor Angela C. Jenks can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5070/T33149095. Table of Contents: In “Reading Alex E. Chávez’s Sounds of Crossing,”

ajenks July 15, 2020February 19, 2021 Blog Read more

New Publication: “Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces”

New Publication: “Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces”

New publication in the New England Journal of Medicine: “Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces.” By Seth M. Holmes, Helena Hansen, Angela Jenks, Scott D. Stonington, Michelle Morse, Jeremy A. Greene, Keith A. Wailoo, Michael G. Marmot,

ajenks March 19, 2020March 2, 2021 Blog Read more

Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed: Syllabus Resources

Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed: Syllabus Resources

Bonni Stachowiak and I discuss syllabus resources on her Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

ajenks December 26, 2019February 19, 2021 Blog, News, Resources, Teaching Read more

New Publication: Democratizing Evidence Production

New Publication: Democratizing Evidence Production

New publication in the New England Journal of Medicine: Chowdhury, Shaheen, Timothy Laux, Michelle Morse, Angela Jenks, Scott Stonington, and Yogesh Jain. “Democratizing Evidence Production–A 51-Year-Old Man with Sudden Onset of Dense Hemiparesis.” New England Journal of Medicine 381: 1501-1505.

ajenks October 18, 2019March 2, 2021 Blog Read more

Academic Senate Teaching Award

Academic Senate Teaching Award

I’m honored to receive the 2019-2020 Academic Senate Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching.

ajenks October 9, 2019October 21, 2019 Blog Read more

New Learning Community for Faculty & TAs

New Learning Community for Faculty & TAs

The Teaching Together Learning Community is a pilot program designed to promote collaborative teaching between faculty and graduate TAs. It offers targeted teaching support for instructors and TAs of courses with large lectures and discussion-based sections. Follow the link above for more

ajenks December 1, 2018October 4, 2019 Blog, News, Teaching Read more

Using Polling Software in Large Classes

Using Polling Software in Large Classes

I first used open-ended polling in a class in 2016. It did not go well. Having seen Bonni Stachowiak use sli.do to great effect in a conference presentation, I decided to incorporate polling into the first day of my 300-student Medical

ajenks August 25, 2018August 26, 2018 Blog, News, Resources, Teaching Read more

Call for Papers: Teaching and Learning Anthropology

Call for Papers: Teaching and Learning Anthropology

Teaching and Learning Anthropology, a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, invites submissions for its inaugural issue. For more information, see https://escholarship.org/uc/teachinglearninganthro

ajenks May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 Blog, News, Teaching Read more

Teaching Together: A Workshop Series for Faculty and TAs

Teaching Together is a two-part workshop series facilitated by graduate student Katie Cox and me. Our goal is to provide UCI faculty and TAs with practical tools to address some of their most common teaching challenges and to enhance both undergraduate learning

ajenks April 20, 2018July 30, 2018 Blog Read more

Podcasts and Pedagogy

Podcasts and Pedagogy

A conversation with Anar Parikh about integrating podcasts and other forms of audio media into anthropological pedagogy: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1297-podcasts-and-pedagogy-audio-in-the-anthropology-classroom

ajenks January 16, 2018May 10, 2018 Blog, News, Resources, Teaching Read more
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Recent News

  • New publication: Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology August 30, 2022
  • New publication: Reshaping General Education as the Practice of Freedom March 10, 2022
  • New publication: Building a #COVIDSyllabus July 23, 2021
  • Jenks recognized for outstanding undergraduate teaching July 19, 2021

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