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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: Not Accepting   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 colleges, universities ...

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 ...

Our Staff
Nancy Lynne Westfield Director westfiel@wabash.edu Curriculum Vitae Sarah F. Farmer Associate Director farmers@wabash.edu Curriculum vitae Rachelle Green Associate Director greenr@wabash.edu Curriculum vitae Heather Fuller Archivist of the Wabash Center at Columbia Theological Seminary fullerh@ctsnet.edu Curriculum Vitae Donald E. Quist Educational Design Manager ...

2016-17 Mid-Career Colloquy
2016-17 Teaching and Learning Colloquy for Mid-Career Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities "Pedagogies of Community Engagement" APPLICATIONS CLOSED Experiential education includes a wide range of pedagogies that engage students in the use of material culture, site visits, active experimentation, creative performance, and service.  This colloquy will focus on one ...

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 ...

"Kitchen Table Banter as Engaged Pedagogy"

Build, Compose, Make
Below is the jargon which has pervaded our conversation. I call this the “re-” lexicon: re-design re-invent re-arrange re-imagine re-create re-think re-conceive re-examine re-vision re-consider re-work re-cover The call to “re-” the system of education has been in response to shrinking student pools, dwindling tenure-track positions, collapsing denominational structures, tightening ...

Emotional Labor in Teaching
If I have learned anything in this life of teaching, it is this: the emotional labor of teaching is genuine. Routinely, class sessions left me exhausted. After most sessions I would need to sit in silence for an hour to regain my energies or have a meal to replenish my ...

Agency: Onward Through the Fog!
The task is impossible, yet ours to accomplish. Our students need us to shape our classrooms for a future we cannot foresee or anticipate. In the courses we design, our students need us to hone their voices, imaginations, and problem-solving abilities for a future that is unmappable yet will require ...

Permission Giving
The Wabash Center teaches toward freedom in hopes of liberation and healing. We have learned that acts of freedom occur in many forms, and occasionally involve receiving permission. Since 2019, I have had the honor of reading the feedback forms completed by participants at the end of events and programming experiences. ...

Fear Will Make You Hurt Yourself
Fear is the anxiety that you are about to lose something you love, need, have rightfully earned or deserve. Fear will make you hurt yourself, silence yourself, edit yourself in ways that contradict or disavow your own best pursuits. Since we teach who we are, showing up afraid will only ...

"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 ...