Guyot-Bender and Patterson Awarded Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowships

Associate Professor of French Martine Guyot-Bender and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Patterson have been awarded Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowships.

This award, established by the Class of 1963 on the occasion of its 30th reunion, provides "members of the faculty with inspiration and incentive to become better teachers by developing additional areas of expertise during the summer months." The award provides a stipend for travel and hotel as expenses to help recipients attend seminars and workshops.

Guyot-Bender wants to explore new ways of integrating the study of images and graphic representations and production in existing courses and create a pilot course focused on graphic representation and filming/photography that she hopes to teach while directing the Hamilton program in Paris next year. Guyot-Bender believes that studying images can increase students' analysis skills, which is necessary because images are used to so broadly in the world today.

Patterson wants to expand the Africana Studies Program to keep with the explosion of scholarship in the field by designing new courses.  She will design and develop a sequenced pair of courses, Africa and the World and Africans in Diaspora, and a junior seminar, Knowledge and Method in Global African Studies. Patterson plans to purchase new books, maps, and films to be used by the students and design a format and assignments that actively engage students in the learning process.

 

-- by Molly Kane '09