Interim director of the Writing Resource Center, and SAGES Fellow Dr Gabrielle Parkin has been awarded the 2021 Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring. At the height of the pandemic, Parkin helped ensure the welfare of the community by coordinating the “Free Little Food Pantry” in an effort...
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This year's Wittke Award has been given to SAGES Fellow Dr. Anthony Wexler, who teaches the course The Landscape of Memory, which examines how and why we preserve the memory of collective traumas through literature, monuments, memorials, museums, new technologies and social media. The course uses the Holocaust and...
Dr. Gabrielle Parkin, SAGES Fellow and interim Director of the Writing Resource Center, has been named as one of the Runners-up for Covid-19 Champion, an award set up to honor those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the welfare of students and the...
We support #ScholarStrike, a national effort by academics to focus attention on police violence, mass incarceration, and other manifestations of racism - especially against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. On Tuesday, September 8 and Wednesday, September 9, 2020, we encourage all members of the CWRU community to reflect...
SAGES Fellow Caitlin Kelly has an article in Age of Revolutions charting the way the students in her SAGES course Hamilton and American Identity (FSSY185M) use resources such as bibliographies to direct their own learning.
Vicki Daniel, a SAGES Fellow who studies death rituals, has written Black Deaths Matter, an article for The Conversation which traces the history of how African Americans have memorialised the victims of slavery, and others killed by racial violence, through to the present day.
"Commemoration is not an apolitical act....