We are very excited to share the news about the first cohort of Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention for the 2020-21 academic year. This program builds upon the GMAP Curriculum Development Program, which we provided since 2018.
We received great applications and cannot wait to begin working with the selected group, both because of the new representation from the School of Management and the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science that this cohort brings to our network and because of the diversity of important topics about which these faculty teach and do research. They will provide an array of courses for students at the graduate and undergraduate levels and will help us delve deeper into some key aspects of prevention where we haven’t previously had the specialized expertise. These faculty members will join a growing cadre of faculty across ßÙßÇÂþ» who are incorporating atrocity prevention into their teaching and, in some cases, into their research as well. We will now have members who have participated in this program from every college/school at the University that provides master’s level coursework.
They will participate as a group in some synchronous meetings/workshops with us and past participants throughout the year, and thanks to our Dr. Kerry Whigham’s, assistant professor of genocide and mass atrocity prevention, work they will individually complete self-paced online modules in the spring. By next year, we intend to have this program ready to open up to the broader SUNY community in the form of micro-credentialing.
Each year we have found the variety of disciplines represented by the participants greatly enriches the discussions of both atrocity prevention and pedagogy, and we are looking forward to a process of mutual learning again this year. This year the group will consist of the following individuals (listed alphabetically):
Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows 2020-2021 Cohort |
Arnab DeyUndergraduate Director; Associate Professor, History |
Birgit Brander RasmussenAssociate Professor |
Bryan KirschenAssistant Professor, Undergraduate Director ; Assistant Professor |
Changqing ChengAssistant Professor |
Jennifer GordonAssociate Professor |
Jeremy BlackburnAssistant Professor |
Kimberly JaussiCollegiate Professor of Dickinson Community; Associate Professor |
Matthew McConnTLEL Department Chair |
Saeideh MirghorbaniAssistant Professor |
Zeynep ErtemAssistant Professor |