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Faculty Humanities Workshops |
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Division of Education Programs |
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Announced: February 2007 |
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District of Columbia |
| Regional Tour of Teaching Shakespeare Workshops in New York City and Tulsa
Folger Shakespeare Library, — Washington
Contact: Michael LoMonico
Weeklong workshops in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and New York City designed to lead
sixty teachers in an examination of two plays by William Shakespeare. |
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Florida |
| Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine Workshop Series
Florida Humanities Council, — St. Petersburg
Contact: Monica Rowland
Three one day workshops for fifty Florida K 12 teachers on historic St.
Augustine and the Spanish colonial experience in America.
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Illinois |
| Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West
College of DuPage, — Glen Ellyn
Contact: Eva Maria Rapple
A yearlong workshop for seven full time and seven part time humanities and fine
arts faculty members to compare aesthetic concepts and beliefs in Asian and Western
traditions through the study of philosophy and the fine arts.
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| How to Teach a Poem (and Learn from One, Too)
DePaul University, — Chicago
Contact: Eric Selinger
An eleven month Faculty Humanities Workshop aimed at providing twenty Chicago area
middle school teachers with the knowledge and expertise to teach poetry more effectively in their classrooms.
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Maryland |
| Baltimore: Portal to the American Identity
Baltimore City Public School System, — Baltimore
Contact: Kevin Jenkins
A series of six full day workshops for forty elementary and secondary school history teachers on Baltimore's history from colonial times through the twentieth century.
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| Classical Scholarship and the Age of Augustus
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, — Baltimore
Contact: Therese Dougherty
A series of workshops for sixteen high school Latin teachers on the history and culture of Augustan Rome.
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Massachusetts |
| Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry, and Place
Amherst College, — Amherst
Contact: Cynthia Dickinson
A Faculty Humanities Workshop series for twenty four local K-12 teachers on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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| Of Migration(s) and Renaissance(s): Harlem and Chicago, 1915-1975
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, — North Adams
Contact: Frances Jones Sneed
Six one day workshops for fifteen community college faculty and secondary schoolteachers on African American cultural expression in Harlem, New York, and Chicago's South Side following the Great Migration.
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New Jersey |
| American Cities and Public Spaces
Community College Humanities Association, — Newark
Contact: George Scheper
A residential program at the Library of Congress for ten community college humanities faculty members
for guided research and participation in lecture/discussion sessions around the topic of American cities and public spaces.
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New York |
| Heartland Passage: Teaching the Erie Canal in American History
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture, — New York
Contact: Marci Reaven
A four day workshop for fifty teachers in grades 4-8 on the history of the Erie
Canal from its groundbreaking in 1817 to the present day.
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| Shakespeare Fellows' Project
Theatre for a New Audience, — New York
Contact: Joseph Giardina
A two week summer workshop for twenty New York City school teachers on four of William Shakespeare's plays.
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Vermont |
| The Gilded Age Through the Lens of Vermont
Vermont Historical Society, — Barre
Contact: Jerry Desmarais
A workshop series for twenty middle and high school teachers on Vermont's historical,
literary, and artistic legacy during the Gilded Age.
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Virginia |
| The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
Northern Virginia Community College, — Annandale
Contact: Charles Evans
A series of workshops and activities for twelve faculty members to broaden their
understanding of digital humanities and enhance their ability to use digitized humanities materials in the courses they teach.
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Wisconsin |
| The Examined Life Integrating Philosophy into Secondary Education
University of Wisconsin, — Stout, Menomonie
Contact: Jerry Kapus
A weeklong philosophy workshop for twenty high school teachers focusing on the examined life and its value.
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