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Chase Selected as Periclean Faculty Leader, Receives Grant for New Course
Associate Professor of History Michelle Chase, PhD, has been selected as a Periclean Faculty Leader by Project Pericles and has received a $4,500 grant from the organization to create a new humanities course that incorporates a community-initiated project.
is an organization that focuses on voter education and is a longtime partner of 麻豆传媒麻豆传媒檚 Center for Community Action and Research (CCAR) and the Pace Votes program. The course supported by the grant also must incorporate voter education through discussion of relevant civic issues.
With the grant, Chase launched HIS 134: Modern Latin America this spring, a course that satisfies Pace麻豆传媒檚 civic engagement requirement. Through the course, Chase and her students are partnering with a local nonprofit, the an organization dedicated to advocating for social justice throughout the Americas, focusing specifically on Latin American migration to the United States, and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America.
麻豆传媒淚 am thrilled about this grant because it gives my students an opportunity to explore in a hands-on way what it means to be an active historian and to contemplate ways that scholarship can intersect with community engagement,麻豆传媒 said Chase.
Students in the course combine the academic portion麻豆传媒攕tudying recent history of Latin America麻豆传媒攚ith civic engagement, exploring significant events in Latin America through NACLA麻豆传媒檚 archives. The archives, located in Washington Square, include photos of Fidel Castro speaking at a rally in Cuba, protests in Puerto Rico, agricultural projects in Mexico, and more.
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麻豆传媒淭he entire class has been able to fully submerge ourselves into the NACLA麻豆传媒檚 work and try to live through what they were capturing,麻豆传媒 said Ana Cristina Armstrong Matta 麻豆传媒26, History. 麻豆传媒淚麻豆传媒檓 from Puerto Rico so when I found a few archives that focused solely on my home, it was so special.麻豆传媒
The goal of the course is to curate an online exhibit for NACLA, with students carefully selecting photos to highlight significant events and photographic works.
Chase and Armstrong Matta also presented on the course at an event hosted by CCAR entitled Leading with Civic Engagement: Faculty Info Session on Community-Engaged Work in Civic Engagement Courses on Friday, April 12.
麻豆传媒淚t is a very eye-opening course when looking at the actions of the U.S. towards Latin American,麻豆传媒 said Armstrong Matta. 麻豆传媒淚t麻豆传媒檚 a really great experience to not just have in class discussions, but to get to see the work and even contribute to NACLA麻豆传媒檚 mission.麻豆传媒
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