Archive | Scholarship and Creative Work

Memory Studies

Memory is an integral part of everyday life, but also increasingly both the subject of academic research and a conceptual lens used across disciplines. Debates abound between and within academic fields about the nature of memory, and in response to the interest within and beyond the academy, a dedicated field of Memory Studies has emerged. This FIG brings together faculty from across disciplines who are working on or interested in memory to explore memory in an interdisciplinary way. The activities of the FIG include a reading group, presentations of faculty research, and other programs determined by interest.

Coordinator: Sarah Madole (Music and Art) and Amy Sodaro (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice)

Criminal Justice/Social Justice

The Criminal Justice/Social Justice FIG welcomes all BMCC faculty. The goals of this working group are to discuss FIG members’ on-going research and academic projects, establish opportunities for scholarly collaborations, and exchange pedagogical strategies and best-practices, with an emphasis on social justice oriented issues within the framework of the criminal justice system.

Coordinators: Shirley Leyro (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice) and Jill Strauss (Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts)

Community College Research

The Community College Research FIG explores research produced by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College and other community college researchers, with the aim of:

  1. identifying research gaps
  2. seeing how our currently existing research helps to address/fill those gaps
  3. applying for grants for those who want to coordinate new studies
  4. filling existing research gaps with our research

Coordinator: Maureen Matarese (Academic Literacy and Linguistics)

Queer Communities at BMCC

This interdisciplinary FIG, open to full-time and adjunct faculty, as well as staff, encourages conversations around representation, visibility, and social action within the queer communities.  While encouraging conversation specifically around curricular issues (e.g., representation, meaningful integration, and social action through curricula), the FIG will also address larger issues confronting queer communities (including scholarly communities as well as communities in which we live).

Attending to group interests, academic guest speakers will be invited to share scholarship that can support conversations around LGBT issues and themes.  Members who self-identify under the queer spectrum (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, etc.) and allies are welcome to join this FIG and help guide conversation.

Coordinator: Brian Kelley (Academic Literacy and Linguistics)

Women’s Studies Project

The Women’s Studies Project (WSP) is a community of faculty and staff who teach, research, or administer in the field of women’s/gender studies – a complex discipline that draws participants from fields such as the humanities, sciences, social sciences, mathematics, business management, and so forth – at BMCC. WSP communicates across CUNY campuses to discuss and plan Women’s Studies at the university level.

At BMCC, WSP was started by Professors Cheryl Fish and Tricia Lin in the fall 2000 to provide an intellectual forum for those interested in scholarship and pedagogy of women’s and gender studies on our campus. The group continues to offer such a forum through reading groups, workshops, and roundtable discussions for faculty. Numerous scholars and activists have been invited to campus by the WSP since its inception; in 2000, WSP hosted a CUNY-wide colloquium, “Women’s Studies @ CUNY in the New Century.” The group also collaborates with the Women’s Resource Center to program events for students, including Women’s HerStory Month.

Coordinators: Lane Glisson (Library) and Shawn Grant (Business Management)

STEM

The goal of STEM FIG is to foster teaching and research across the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines. As the economy grows, more STEM-related jobs are being created. Skilled workers are needed for the future. Not only do we need to recruit more STEM-major students, we need to successfully retain them. How should we do to attract students into STEM majors? How can we prepare students for future STEM careers? Studies show that students’ participation in hands-on research activities greatly increases their interest and future success in their preparation for STEM fields.

Our FIG meets monthly to share common interests amongst the faculty in academic and pedagogical research, and the best practice in the disciplines. We host research seminars, and discuss students’ research experiences, classroom management, and other related topics.

Coordinators: Daniel Torres Rangel (Science)

Language, Society, and Culture

The Language, Society and Culture FIG welcomes faculty presentations on research or pedagogical issues related to language. We host a series of panel discussions with faculty from various departments, in which panelists share strategies on addressing language and cultural issues in the classroom. We also serve as a planning group for an annual conference on language, held at different campuses throughout CUNY.

Coordinators: Laurie Lomask (Modern Languages) and Tuvi Vorhees (Academic Literacy and Linguistics)

 

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Latino/a Studies

Note: This FIG is on hiatus until Spring 2019

This interdisciplinary FIG explores the theoretical, social, and personal dimensions that are the foundation for Latina/os to develop cross-cultural awareness and to understand their own transnational characteristics. As a group, we discuss scholarly readings and host/listen to academic speakers. These activities help the participants to explore how they can infuse these new elements into their curriculum or research.

Coordinator: Rosario Torres (Academic Literacy and Linguistics)

Creative Writing

The goal of the Creative Writing FIG is to create a space for faculty and staff who write and want to have a dedicated time and group that will foster these creative endeavors. We engage in a variety of activities that focus on generating and revising participants’ respective genres for publication. Our activities include writing, peer reviewing and analyzing, craft talks about “master” texts, and readings by participants. On the whole, we want to encourage our group members to keep writing and to develop a safe space where this can occur.

Coordinator: Racquel Goodison (English)

Children and Youth Studies

The BMCC Children and Youth Studies FIG brings together faculty members from a variety of disciplines whose work and research keep the child, children, and childhood as their central focus, providing critical thought and insight while locating them in different contexts, fields, and ideologies. The range of open topics within this field is as broad as the contexts of the experiences of children and childhood: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, and representations in all modes of fiction.

We are proud to announce that an articulation agreement has been established between Brooklyn College’s Children and Youth Studies BA program and BMCC’s Liberal Arts Program. The Children’s Studies FIG is in the process of creating a Children’s and Youth Studies Liberal Arts Concentration Program for students interested in pursuing a degree in the field. Please contact us if you would like to be involved in this program.

We are very interested in providing a platform for faculty to discuss and present works in progress and offer research support. We invite submissions for presentations or discussion topics for our monthly sessions.

Coordinator: Tali Noimann (English)

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