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.
IAS is happy to announce that six UW doctoral students have been selected from a highly-competitive pool and will be teaching in 2008-2009 as Fellows in the second year of the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP).
Tami Blumenfield (mentored by Diane Gillespie): Tami Blumenfield is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at UWS where she studies minority education in China, and the role of development in education. She has wide experience in community media, as well as collaborative and participatory research methods. She has been teaching a variety of courses at UWS, including many with community-based learning components.
Areas of teaching interest: Visual studies, Indigenous Media, Comparative Family Systems, China, Anthropology, Education
Shauna Carlisle (second year term PIP Mentor): Shauna Carlisle is a doctoral student in the UW School of Social Work. Her teaching interests address a wide range of issues related to public policy, demography and epidemiology of health, research methods, and inequality. Her research focuses on health disparities among black Caribbean populations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. She has held a research fellowship with the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. In 2005, she was mentored by IAS faculty member Nives Dolsak as part of a highly-successful teaching practicum in the MAPS program. She is participating in PIP as a second year mentor.
Areas of Interest: Health Disparities; Social and Health Policy; Immigration and Migration; Social Demography; Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality.
Caren Crandell (mentored by Bill Seaburg): Caren Crandell is a doctoral candidate in Forest Resources at UWS. She has extensive experience in wetland ecology, ethnobotany, and ecological and cultural restoration. A former middle school teacher, she has offered courses in diverse settings, including online and hybrid formats, including service learning components. She has experience working for federal and state agencies, and has been a part of the UW-wide Restoration Ecology Network.
Areas of teaching interest: Wetland Ecology, Culture and Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Ethnobotany, Environmental Policy
Tim Jones (mentored by Colin Danby): Tim Jones is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at UWS where he studies comparative politics and international relations, with an interdisciplinary concentration in political communication. He has taught courses in political science, communication and law, both at UWS and Bellevue Community College. For the past year, he has worked with a group of faculty, graduate students and community members to develop a curriculum on the US economy and other developed world economies and their connections (or disconnections) with quality of life, sustainability and social justice.
Areas of teaching interest: International Relations, Political Communication, Developed World Economies, US Media and Politics, US Political Institutions.
Erica Gunn (mentored by Becca Price): Erica Gunn is a doctoral candidate in Chemistry at UWS. She has strong interests in science teaching, science communication, sustainability and green chemistry, and the regulation and application of science in society. She received the UW Chemistry Department Outstanding Teaching Award for her efforts in teaching and developing supplemental materials for students of organic chemistry.
Areas of teaching interest: Introductory Chemistry, Organic Chemistry; Green Chemistry; Science communication
Fernanda Oyarzun (mentored by Cinnamon Hillyard): Fernanda Oyarzun is a doctoral candidate in Biology at UWS where she is pursuing a dual career as a biologist and a visual artist. Her dissertation research assesses the costs and benefits of different reproductive systems in a polychaete worm. With others in the Biology department, she was recently awarded a UW-wide distinguished teaching award for developing and teaching the course "Learning how to learn in science" that seeks to retain minorities in introductory biology courses. She also won the distinguished graduate teaching award in the Biology department in 2006.
Areas of teaching interest: Biology: Visual Art; Ecology; Visual representations of data; Supporting minorities in the sciences
Samuel Yum (mentored by Linda Watts): Samuel Yum is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at UWS. 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 cultural anthropology.
Areas of teaching interest: Cultural Anthropology, Nation, Culture and Identity; Visual Media; New Media Production
Shauna Carlisle (mentored by Elizabeth Thomas): Shauna Carlisle is a doctoral student in the UW School of Social Work. Her teaching interests address a wide range of issues related to public policy, demography and epidemiology of health, research methods, and inequality. Her research focuses on health disparities among black Caribbean populations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. She has held a research fellowship with the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. In 2005, she was mentored by IAS faculty member Nives Dolsak as part of a highly-successful teaching practicum in the MAPS program. She is participating in PIP as a second year mentor.
Areas of Interest: Health Disparities; Social and Health Policy; Immigration and Migration; Social Demography; Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality.
Amy Lambert (mentored by Linda Watts): Amy Lambert is a doctoral student in the UW College of Forest Resources. She holds a M.S. in Restoration Ecology and a B.F.A. in Visual Art. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of Restoration Ecology/Conservation Biology and Public Art. She is a practicing artist and has received a teaching award in her previous jobs as a Project Manager/Research Scientist and Natural Resource Manager with the National Park Service in San Francisco.
Areas of Interest: Restoration Ecology; Conservation Biology; Public Art; Climate Change; Feminist Art.
Kevin Ramsey (mentored by Ron Krabill): Kevin Ramsey is a doctoral student in the UW Department of Geography. His teaching and research interests include urban cultural and environmental politics, the use of information and communication technologies in participatory planning and political activism, and democratic theory and practice. He holds a B.A. in Radio Television Film from Northwestern University where he collaborated on the production of award-winning multimedia artwork.
Areas of Interest: Urban and Environmental Politics; Theories and Practices of Democracy; Geographical Information Systems (GIS); Participatory and Community-Based Research.
Rebeca Rivera (mentored by Warren Gold): Rebeca Rivera is a doctoral student in Environmental Anthropology at the UW and a fellow in the interdisciplinary Urban Ecology program. Her teaching and research interests include sustainable consumption practices, environmental justice, intentional communities, land use, and urban and exurban development. She worked as a researcher for the Chicano environmental justice activists report for the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 2002.
Areas of Interest: Environmental Justice; Sustainable Consumption; Intentional Communities; Urban and Exurban Land Use.
Stephanie Scopelitis (mentored by Jeanne Heuving): Stephanie Scopelitis is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the UW. Her teaching and research interests include modern dance and ballet, dance history, arts integration, and collaborative learning. She is a practicing artist, holds a M.F.A. in Dance from the UW, and is currently the Outreach Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. She is also has a background in film production.
Areas of Interest: Modern/Ballet/Dance History; Dance and Culture; Teaching Methodologies; Arts Integration.
If you have questions about PIP, contact the 2006-2007 Co-Directors: Becky Rosenberg (brosenberg@uwb.edu), Bruce Burgett (burgett@u.washington.edu), or Martha Groom (groom@u.washington.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.
