Tag: HASTAC Scholars

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Alexandra Thrall

    Alexandra (Allie) Thrall is a doctoral student in Baylor University’s Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Allie’s research focuses on investigating the sociotechnical arrangements that could undermine or support justice-oriented teaching and learning. Formerly, Allie taught 4th-12th grades and served as a school administrator. Allie has an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of […]

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Hiranya Mukherjee

    1) Why did you apply to HASTAC? As I was nearing the end of my Master’s program in English Literature, I was apprehensive about leaving the university circle and setting forth into the world outside academia. In the five consecutive years that comprised my Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Literary Studies, I had grown accustomed […]

  • Scholar Spotlight: Catherine A. Evans

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC’s accessible, welcoming, and intentional approach drew me to apply as I looked beyond my institution for further opportunities to meet other early career researchers who value collaborative cross-disciplinary research. My work at Carnegie Mellon has ranged from learning with labor activists to designing and delivering accessible educational materials […]

  • Review: The New College Classroom

    This volume by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis situates itself as a guidebook to rethinking and restructuring traditional teaching, and subsequently learning, practices for a modern, diverse, and equitable college classroom. The authors set out to provide practical answers to an essential question—namely, how can we “teach for every student—not only for the ones who most resemble us, their instructors” (xii).