The Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) provides an opportunity for a diverse cohort of 4-6 University of Washington doctoral students to develop their teaching skills in the context of an integrative interdisciplinary program that spans the arts and sciences. Project fellows work closely with faculty mentors in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program and create teaching portfolios that include evidence of their hands-on experience with theories and practices of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary pedagogy.
PIP Fellows for 2011-2012:
IAS is happy to announce that five UW doctoral students have been selected from a highly-competitive pool and will be teaching in 2011-2012 as fellows in the sixth year of the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP). Simón Trujillo, a member of the fifth cohort of PIP fellows from 2010-11, will serve as a second year mentor for 2011-12.
Robertson Allen (mentored by Wanda Gregory). Rob Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. He has considerable experience in teaching interdisciplinary writing and English, as well as a variety of courses in anthropology, and is interested in developing courses that critically explore digital games, militarization, and labor. Courses: BIS 236 Introduction to Interactive Media (Games and Gaming: Autumn & Spring), BISMCS 471 Advanced Topics in Media and Communication Studies: Technologies of Militarization and War Games (Winter).
Areas of teaching interest: Visual Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Labor Studies, and the Anthropology of War and Violence.
Carrie Lanza (mentored by Kari Lerum). Carrie Lanza is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social Welfare. She sees her teaching, social work practice, creative and scholarly work as an integrated whole that are connected by a common ethos of critical pedagogy. She is exploring themes of identity and place in both her teaching and research practice, including her study of the evolution of practice methods in maternal and child health, and her explorations of arts-based practices for community building, social action, and decolonization. Her teaching has included a course in Community-Based Participatory Media, and work with Ratnesh Nagda in teaching Intergroup Dialogue. Courses: BIS 293: Foundations for Social Services (Autumn & Spring), BIS 445 Meanings and Realities of Inequality (Winter).
Areas of teaching interest: Methods in Maternal and Child Health, Arts-Based Practice for Community Building, Social Action and Decolonization.
Rachel Mitchell (mentored by Dave Stokes). Rachel Mitchell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Forest Resouces. She is a restoration ecologist who focuses on invasive species and plant community ecology. Through her teaching at the high school level, she developed a commitment to improving scientific communication skills. With two others, she designed a speaker series and graduate seminar to teach grad students how to engage the public in research through story telling using improvisational arts, film, story telling, and discussion. Students from this seminar present their work in the “Engage Science Speaker Series” (www.engage-science.com). Courses: BIS 396 Topics in Sustainability: Food Production, Safety, and Security (Autumn & Spring), BIS 393: Communicating Science (Winter).
Areas of teaching interest: Improving Scientifc Communication Skills, Invasive Species and Plant Community Ecology.
Jed Murr (mentored by Ben Gardner). Jed Murr is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English. Working with the Race/Knowledge Project, he collaborates to understand the circulation of race and racism within the dynamics of the global university in general and within discourses of "multiculturalism" and "colorblindness" in particular. In its efforts to develop practices that exceed traditional disciplinary and pedagogical boundaries, the RKP brings together various cultural workers and activists to speak with and to different audiences at UW. He has taught a wide range of courses in English, American Studies, Geography and International Studies. Courses: BIS 293: Introduction to Cultural Studies (Autumn & Spring), BIS 282 Globalization (Winter).
Areas of teaching interest: Engaging Race, Racism, Cultures of Globalization and Violence, and the Politics of Memory and Forgetting in the Contemporary U.S.
Nicole Torres (mentored by Leslie Ashbaugh). Nicole Torres is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore how humans perceive their realities through language, images, and built environments. She has taught both in Anthropology and for Cornish College of the Arts, where she has taught similar courses that explore issues using interdisciplinary research assignments that include experiential components. Courses: BISSTS 397: Topics in Science, Technology, and Society: Medicine, Illness and Culture (Autumn & Spring), BIS 314: Topics in Geography: Borders, Boundaries and Borderlands in the U.S. (Winter).
Areas of teaching interest: Language, Visual Representation, and the Importance of Narrative in the Social Ecology of Militarization.
Simón Trujillo (second year PIP mentor). Simón Trujillo was a PIP fellow in 2010-2011 and is a doctoral candidate in English at UW Seattle. His research investigates the cultural politics of the New Mexican land-grant reclamation movement, La Alianza Federal de Mercedes. He has taught courses in the English Department where his pedagogy frames cultural work as a site of interdisciplinary inquiry, one in which students are able cultivate knowledge projects that intersect multiple disciplinary domains and public spheres. He is a co-organizer of the UW Race/Knowledge Project.
Areas of teaching interest: Chicana/o Studies; African-American Studies; American Ethnic Cultural Studies
PIP Fellows for 2010-2011:
Amy Bhatt (mentored by Diane Gillespie). Amy Bhatt is a doctoral candidate in Women Studies at UW Seattle. Her research explores notions of class, race, and belonging through a focus on the Indian-U.S. migration of information technology workers and their families. She has taught in the Department of Women Studies where her courses encourage the development of critical understandings of social problems, create an environment for engaged learning, and make connections inside and outside of the classroom. She has worked for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, DC. In 2009-10, she was a Research Fellow at the Simpson Center for Humanities.
Areas of teaching interest: Ethnography and Discourse Analysis; Gender and Family; Migration and Labor.
Madhavi Murty (mentored by Ron Krabill). Madhavi Murty is a doctoral candidate in Communication at UW Seattle. Her research examines how neoliberalism in India is materialized through popular representations of marginalized women, arguing that the figure of the subaltern woman shapes concepts such as cosmopolitanism, developmentalism, and modernity. She has taught in the Department of Communication, where she encourages students to hone critical thinking and analytical writing skills in courses focused on cultural studies, popular culture, race, gender and sexuality. She worked as a journalist in Mumbai for four years and was a Research Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities in 2009-2010.
Areas of teaching interest: Media and Communication Studies, Global Studies; Gender and Women’s Studies.
Jentery Sayers (mentored by Ted Heibert). Jentery Sayers is a doctoral candidate in English at UW Seattle. His research focuses on magnetic recording technologies and their intersections with literature, art, and advertising from roughly 1860 to the present. He has designed and taught a wide array of courses, most of them computer-integrated and project-based, on topics such as new media production, Anglo-American modernism, technoculture studies, electronic literature, service-learning, expository writing, and the digital humanities. In 2009-10, he was a research intern for KEXP radio and a Research Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Areas of teaching interest: Literary Modernism; New Media; Cultural Histories of Technology.
Simón Trujillo (mentored by David Goldstein). Simón Trujillo is a doctoral candidate in English at UW Seattle. His research investigates the cultural politics of the New Mexican land-grant reclamation movement, La Alianza Federal de Mercedes. He has taught courses in the English Department where his pedagogy frames cultural work as a site of interdisciplinary inquiry, one in which students are able cultivate knowledge projects that intersect multiple disciplinary domains and public spheres. He is a co-organizer of the UW Race/Knowledge Project.
Areas of teaching interest: Chicana/o Studies; African-American Studies; American Ethnic Cultural Studies
Sally Warner (mentored by Rob Turner). Sally Warner is a doctoral candidate in Physical Oceanography at UW Seattle. Her research focuses on the Puget Sound, specifically looking at the internal waves and eddies that are generated when tidal currents flow over rough bottom topography. She has co-designed curriculum for undergraduate lab classes that deal with the interdisciplinary aspects of oceanography. She is excited to teach science to students in hands-on and interactive ways.
Areas of teaching interest: Oceanography; Estuarine and Coastal Fluid Dynamics; Citizen Science and Science Education.
Sam Yum (second year PIP mentor). Sam Yum was a PIP fellow in 2008-09 and is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at UW Seattle. In his teaching and his research, he is interested in national identity formation in diasporic communities, working with Korean Americans. He has extensive experience with museums and new media technology and production. His courses emphasize the use of creative collaborations to investigate issues in culture and anthropology.
Areas of teaching interest: Cultural Anthropology, Nation, Culture and Identity; Visual Media; New Media Production.
PIP Fellows 2009-2010:
Kristin Gustafson (Department of Communication, mentored by Constantin Behler).
Tim Jones (Department of Political Science).
Sydney Lewis (Department of English, mentored by Kari Lerum).
Trang X. Ta (Department of Anthropology, mentored by Martha Groom).
Amoshaun Toft (Department of Communications, mentored by Susan Harewood).
Bryan White (Department of Nuerobiology, mentored by Marc Servetnick).
PIP Fellows 2008-2009:
Tami Blumenfield (Department of Anthropology, mentored by Diane Gillespie).
Shauna Carlisle (School of Social Work, second year PIP mentor).
Caren Crandell (College of Forest Resources, mentored by Bill Seaburg).
Erica Gunn: (Department of Geology).
Tim Jones (Department of Political Science, mentored by Colin Danby).
Fernanda Oyarzun (Department of Biology, mentored by Cinnamon Hillyard).
Samuel Yum (Department of Anthropology, mentored by Linda Watts).
PIP Fellows 2007-2008:
Shauna Carlisle (Department of Social Work; mentored by Elizabeth Thomas)
Amy Lambert (Department of Forest Resources; mentored by Linda Watts)
Kevin Ramsey (Department of Geography; mentored by Ron Krabill)
Rebeca Rivera (Department of Environmental Anthropology; mentored by Warren Gold)
Stephanie Scopelitis (Department of Educational Psychology; mentored by Jeanne Heuving)
PIP Fellows 2006-2007:
Melanie Kill (Department of English; mentored by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren)
Georgia Roberts (Department of English; mentored by Ron Krabill)
Jeanette Sanchez (Department of Theater History and Criticism; mentored by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren)
Matthew Sneddon (Department of History; mentored by Linda Watts)
Sarah Starkweather (Department of Geography; mentored by Colin Danby)
Want more information?
If you have questions about PIP, contact the 2008-2009 Co-Directors: Bruce Burgett (burgett@u.washington.edu), Martha Groom (groom@u.washington.edu), or David Goldstein (DGoldstein@uwb.edu).
Generous support for the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy has been provided by the UW Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation, the UW Bothell Office of Academic Affairs, the UW Bothell Teaching and Learning Center, and the IAS program.