Category: Higher Education

  • Alien Feminism

    Alien Feminism

    Why is it that when we think about the genre of science fiction our minds automatically go to Star Wars or Star Trek? It’s 2019 and yet our society, American society that is, is still seduced by the galactic fantasies of white colonialization. With all that feminism has taught us over the years we are […]

  • Introducing Feminism into the Classroom: A Syllabus On Women Writers Who Challenge Societal Structures Through Literature

    Introducing Feminism into the Classroom: A Syllabus On Women Writers Who Challenge Societal Structures Through Literature

    If literature is meant to challenge students by presenting them with different worldviews, then how can secondary and postsecondary educators construct a syllabus that encourages students to consider the implications of those worldviews? How can we design a course that invites students to consider what specific authors or characters may be trying to highlight about […]

  • Reflections on 2 Years of Experiments

    Reflections on 2 Years of Experiments

    This is a transcript of the linked audio file from my HASTAC Showcase presentation at the University of Kansas, May 9, 2019. I was quite rubbish at keeping a blog, but here is a record of some of the things I did!   Begin Transcript: Hello! My name is An Sasala and I am an […]

  • HASTAC Scholars Project Showcase, University of Kansas, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

    HASTAC Scholars Project Showcase, University of Kansas, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

    2017-19 HASTAC Scholars showcase profiled graduate research projects and professional development work by Mariah Crystal, Rain Charger, Clarisse Barbier, and An Sasala (not pictured). Mariah Crystal explained how she plans to use digital storytelling to document the oral histories of Namibian women and their involvement in Namibia’s independence. Rain Charger discussed his research on knowledge […]

  • Does Anarchist Pedagogy Demand the Impossible?

    Does Anarchist Pedagogy Demand the Impossible?

      Does Anarchist Pedagogy Demand the Impossible? By Theresa Mendez, SUNY Cortland “Be realistic, demand the impossible!” -Herbert Marcuse Educators interested in radical pedagogical practices are deeply invested in cultivating and sharing approaches to teaching that foster student-centered, interdependent learning. Increasingly, there is a push to de-hierarchize the classroom space, to enable students to become […]

  • Disaster Racism: How Youtube Comments led to an Unplanned Discussion about Race in an Environmental History Class

    This past spring semester, I taught a 200-level history class titled “Disaster & Disease: Society and Environment in Latin America, 1450-2017.” The goal for the course was to let students investigate how climate, disease, and environmental changes impacted societies. How did humans face these challenges and adapt to them? And what does this tell us about […]

  • Digital Friday Recap: Researcher Positionality: Insider and Outsider

    Digital Friday Recap: Researcher Positionality: Insider and Outsider

    I had the opportunity to discuss positionality for qualitative researchers, in terms of insider and outsider. The idea of this webinar emerged from my own experience, and my interactions with other graduate students engaged or thinking about conducting qualitative research. A lot has been written about positionality in qualitative research, outsider and insider, yet positionality […]

  • Here’s the REAL Scandal of Higher Education

    Here’s the REAL Scandal of Higher Education

     While …the national news media went berserk around B-list celebrities paying off admissions counselors to get their offspring into elite universities, a real scandal went unnoticed… While . . .  New York city pundits wrung their hands over the fact that only 7 Black students out of a class of 895 were admitted to the […]

  • Coding Pedagogy Collection Released

    Coding Pedagogy Collection Released

    I’m excited to share that a new digital collection, Coding Pedagogy, has been launched! I contributed a chapter to this collection, but the best part of all is that the collection is Creative Commons licensed and available for viewing free online.  The work features a series of chapters that explore issues related to teaching coding in […]

  • How To Transform a “Talking Heads” Conference Panel Into Active Learning

    How To Transform a “Talking Heads” Conference Panel Into Active Learning

    On April 9, from 330-6pm, we will be hosting live and livestreamed symposium, “Race and Its Futures.”  Rather than a “talking heads” panel, we are going to practice what we preach and turn the conference venue itself into an engaged learning experience that mimics and mirrors the structure of our class, “Mediating Race.” Here’s our […]