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,”
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,
Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed: Syllabus Resources
Bonni Stachowiak and I discuss syllabus resources on her Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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.
Academic Senate Teaching Award
I’m honored to receive the 2019-2020 Academic Senate Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching.
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
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
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
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
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