DEI in the Curriculum and Classroom: Moving from Theory to Practice

2 Amherst Street,Cambridge MA 02142

29 March, 2022

Description

Calls to decolonize universities, curricula, syllabi, and classrooms have been issued around the world in recent years. While individuals feel committed to integrating the missions of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), antiracism, and anticolonialism into their teaching practices, for many it remains a challenge to figure out how. This workshop is open to educators in all disciplines and focuses on connecting theory to practice. Through a combination of open-minded, candid discussion and hands-on experience in approaching curricula, syllabi, and pedagogy, the workshop empowers educators to develop a dynamic, productive, and inclusive teaching praxis.” "Dr. Christy Pichichero (A.B. Princeton University; B.M. Eastman School of Music; Ph.D. Stanford University) is Associate Professor of French and History and an affiliate of the African and African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and the War and the Military and Society programs at George Mason University, where she also serves as the Director of Faculty Diversity in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, the University of Cambridge (King’s College), the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of St Andrews Centre for French History and Culture, West Point Military Academy, and the Society of the Cincinnati. She is the author of The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell University Press, 2017; finalist, Oscar Kenshur Book Prize) and her recent articles on Critical Race Theory, Afro-feminist microhistories, French exceptionalism, and pedagogy have appeared in venues such as PMLA, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and H-France Salon. She is the past president of the Western Society for French History, the recipient of the 2021 Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence at GMU, and a public intellectual recently featured on Médiapart, National Public Radio, NBC News, Forbes, The Hill: Changing America, and Authority Magazine."