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Nancy Lynne Westfield Publications
Publications of Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield
Blogs
Huffington Post – contributor 2015-16.
Wabash Center Blogs under the headings of “Reflective Teaching,” “Teaching, Religion, Politics,” “Learning from the Front (of the Classroom)” – 2014 to present.
Podcasts
“Dialogue on Teaching” moderated for Wabash Center.
“Womanist Conversation” moderated by Dr. Tina Pippin, in conversation with ...
Grants
Peer Mentoring Clusters Grants
Application Opens: December 18, 2023
Application Deadline: March 20, 2024
Peer Mentoring Cluster Grants support the development of small groups of peers whose interactions enrich and strengthen teaching and the teaching life. The grants, awarded in amounts up to $10,000, serve full-time BIPOC faculty who teach Religion or Theology at ...
Recommended Reading
Recommendations from Wabash Center Workshop Leaders
We asked several of the leaders of our teaching workshops and colloquies to recommend just one or two books, articles or websites that they would recommend as valuable resources for teachers.
This short list provides a path into the vast field of the scholarship ...
Welcome
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
Read Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Teaching Identity
Dialogue On Teaching Podcast
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’...
Our Staff
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Communications and Digital Media Coordinator
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Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality
From the Publishers
What allows African American women not just to survive, but to become resilient? N. Lynne Westfield finds an answer to this question as she examines the Dear Sisters' Literary Group. As a Womanist scholar, Westfield reflects on the ways in which the hospitality of the group relates ...
"Hospes: The Wabash Center as a Site of Transformative Hospitality "
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is a place of hospitality and its staff the epitome of the "good host." This essay explores the meaning of hospitality, including its problematic dimensions, drawing on a number of voices and texts: Jacques Derrida's Of Hospitality; Henri M. ...
Being Black Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies
A group of eminent African American scholars of religoius and theological studies examines the problems and prospects of Black scholarhip in the theological academy. They assess the role that prominent African American scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of religion and theology, the need for a more ...
"Responses to Hugh Heclo's On Thinking Institutionally"
Hugh Heclo's recent book On Thinking Institutionally (Paradigm Publishers, 2008) analyzes changes that have taken place in the past half century in how North Americans tend to think and act in institutions. The volume is receiving particular attention as it can be applied to higher education and to religious denominations, and ...
Articulating Your Intellectual Project
(An audio version of this blog may be accessed here.)
As scholar/teachers, we must have and be able to articulate our intellectual project. It is good if it happens in the early career stages of a scholarly career, but it is never too late.
A scholar’s intellectual project ...
The Urgency of Change in Teaching Theology and Religion
I stopped dead in my tracks. I had been enjoying an early-Autumn walk, crunching my way through fallen leaves, while listening to a Wabash Center podcast in which Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield and Rev. Dr. Steed Davidson were discussing how to “Future Proof Your Career.”
I stopped walking when I ...
Knowing Your Place
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Those of us serving on faculties cannot escape the deep influence of the culture of the school upon our scholarship. Where you teach has as much to do with your scholarly formation as what you teach. The location of the doing of your ...
Winter Surprise to Bolster & Brighten
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Gray.
The fog, thick and dreary, descended in late December. In early January, the artic blast assaulted with negative temperatures prolonged over consecutive days.
Unrelenting gray.
Consuming gray.
Days of gray have now turned into weeks of gray. Relief from ice and snow ...
Knowing the Storm
All storms are not the same. A light summer rain is not a category five hurricane. You must learn, in your context, to identify those storms that can be refreshing, and even enjoyable, and those storms that are life threatening and require you to batten down the hatches or evacuate.
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"Hospes: The Wabash Center as a Site of Transformative Hospitality "
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is a place of hospitality and its staff the epitome of the "good host." This essay explores the meaning of hospitality, including its problematic dimensions, drawing on a number of voices and texts: Jacques Derrida's Of Hospitality; Henri M. ...
"Responses to Hugh Heclo's On Thinking Institutionally"
Hugh Heclo's recent book On Thinking Institutionally (Paradigm Publishers, 2008) analyzes changes that have taken place in the past half century in how North Americans tend to think and act in institutions. The volume is receiving particular attention as it can be applied to higher education and to religious denominations, and ...
Faculty Development for Teaching and Learning in Drew’s Culturally Diverse Community
Two weekend faculty retreats that will enhance teaching theory and skills specifically for a racially/culturally diverse seminary population.
Women and Pedagogy Project
The small grant will be used to gather a leadership team of women scholars/ teachers of religion and theology to discuss the notion of indignation as a rubric for understanding women faculty issues -- particularly teacher identity, the influence of indignation on vocation, classroom practices, and oppressive forces which seek ...
Can Courage Be Taught? Teaching within the Confines of Systemic Hatred: A Book Proposal
The grant will support the writing of a book proposal and manuscript created from the many blogs I have written for Wabash. Like the blogs, the book will focus on issues of teaching, learning, identity politics, race and racism. Thinking through and creating a cohesive manuscript from my blogs will ...
Being Black/Teaching Black: An African-American Dialogue Connecting the Influences of Blackness in Theological Education Teaching Practices
Support for an African-American cohort group to engage the central question of how our embodiment of Black Church/Black Theology/Black culture influences our teaching in theological and religious studies. Goals include: charting the impact that Black presence has had on theological pedagogy; consideration of the liminality of Black theological ...