Funded Workshops

Workshops were not funded in 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2024

• Beyond Inclusion and Belonging: Telling Future Histories of Classrooms from 2050
  Vassar College

• Disabilities, Bodies and Design in Liberal Arts Education
  Swarthmore College

• Ecocritical Explorations and Pedagogical Development in the Pre-modern Chinese Humanities
  Swarthmore College

• Performing Early Modern French
  Grinnell College

• Talk to Me, Not At Me”: Jewish Studies and the Liberal Arts College Mission Post- October 7th, 2023
  Swarthmore College

• The Renaissance Project
  Williams College

• The Rhetoric of the Far-Right: A Transnational Approach
  Amherst College

• Using Digital Tools to Understand the Past: New Methods in Economic History
  Grinnell College

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2023

• Large Language Models at Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Teaching, Learning, and Researching in the Liberal Arts in the Age of ChatGPT*
  Reed College

• Missionary-Activists and the Transformation of US-China Cultural Relations through Liberal Arts Education
  Wesleyan University

• Redesigning an Introductory Course to Film and Media Studies
  Wellesley College

• Reproducibility and Replicability in the Liberal Arts
  Middlebury College

• The Art & Science of Natural History Collections at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
  Middlebury College

• The Far-Right in History, Politics and the College Classroom
  Amherst College

• Unteaching Racism: Understanding and handling misuse of racial categories
  Grinnell College

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2022

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Liberal Arts
  Reed College

• Building a Renewable Future within the Liberal Arts
  Wellesley College

• Carceral States: Prison Writing & Liberal Arts Education
  Bryn Mawr College

• Economic History of States and Societies
  Middlebury College

• Establishing a Network for Asian American Psychology Faculty at Liberal Arts Colleges
  Haverford College

• For an Amazigh-Inclusive Curriculum on North Africa
  Williams College

• Pedagogies of Relation: Using Writing to Promote Learning and Belonging in a Post Pandemic World
  Middlebury College

• Rethinking Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in light of Russia’s War in Ukraine
  Amherst College

• The Future of Research and Teaching on Contemporary China at Liberal Arts Colleges
  Swarthmore

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2019

• Global and Public Health in the Liberal Arts: Confronting the Juggernaut
  Amherst College

• Data Science in the Liberal Arts: Shaping the Curriculum
  Bryn Mawr College

• Liberal Arts College Behavioral and Experimental Economics (LACBEE) Workshop
  Carleton College

• Teaching and Employing Open Science Practices at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
  Carleton College

• Creating the Global: Islamic and Asian Art History at Liberal Arts Colleges
  Pomona College

• The Renaissance Project
  Pomona College

• Ancient Temporalities: Greece and RomeWellesley College

• Bringing Project-based Learning to Large Introductory CoursesWesleyan University

• Indigenizing and Decolonizing Liberal Arts Colleges: Centering Indigenous Knowledges, Strengthening Intellectual and Collaborative Networks, and Reckoning with Institutional Histories
  Williams College  

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2018

• Research and Teaching Security in the Cyber Age

• Embodied Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• Teaching, Researching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora at Liberal Arts Colleges

• Aligning Boundary Objects in SES Teaching and Scholarship: Leveraging the Liberal Arts Model for Local and Global Sustainability

• Future of History in the Liberal Arts

• Queer/Trans* of Color Critique in a Liberal Arts Context

• Social Impact Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts: Curricular & Co-Curricular Innovations & Connections

• Engaged Liberal Arts

• Toward Inclusive Creative Writing Programs and Pedagogy

• Situating Sociocultural Anthropology in a Liberal Arts Curriculum

• Empire on the Move: Teaching and Researching Colonization and Mobility

• A Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching East Asian Performing Arts at Liberal Arts Colleges

• From the Archive of Our Black Lives: How to Write and Tell Black (Hi)stories Across Genre and Form
  
  

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2017

• A Workshop to Enhance Inclusivity in Economics at Liberal Arts Colleges: 2018

• America's Archaeologies

• Critical Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning, Phase II: Develop and Operationalize Best Practices

• Curricular Pathways for Digital Scholarship at Liberal Arts Colleges

• Digital Fabrication and Making in a Liberal Arts Context

• Explanation Across the Disciplines

• Research and Teaching on Science, Medicine, and Technology in China and the Sinophone

• Researching and Teaching the Economics of Development: Health, Education, and Wellbeing in Developing Economies

• The 14th at 150: Slavery & Justice in the Liberal Arts

• The Illiberal Art of Performance

• The Pedagogy of Urgency (May 2018)

• Student Protest and the Liberal Arts

• Women's Bodies as Sites of Social Negotiation: the Cultivation, Display, and Consumption of Female Beauty and Sexuality

• Writing & Critical Inquiry in the First-Year Classroom

AALAC Proposals Funded in 2016

• Engaging College Communities in and beyond Prison Education

• Strategic Optimization: Focusing Undergraduate Research to Maximize Scholarship in Applied Mathematics

• Religious Studies at a Crossroads

• Digital Language Learning: A Liberal Arts Exploration of New Modes of Teaching and Learning Languages

• Data Ethics

• Vision Science as an Idealized Model for the Liberal Arts

• Researching and Teaching African Politics: Everyday Politics, Power, and Protest in the Digital Age

• Forced Migration, Displacement, and the Question of Social Justice

• Realizing Potential: Developing Strategies to Enhance Intellectual Engagement for Underrepresented Minorities in Liberal Arts Colleges

• Catalyst Workshop on Policy-Making in East Asia
  
  

AALAC Workshops Funded in 2015

• Situating Core Analytic Philosophy within the Liberal Arts Curriculum

• Understanding Putinism: Illiberal Russia through the Liberal Arts

• A Language Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Chinese at Liberal Arts Colleges

• Getting Your Eyes On: Art / Biology Connections

• The Future of the Liberal Arts Music Curriculum

• Engineering Connections in the Liberal Arts College Environment

• Health Psychology for the Twenty-First Century

• Design Thinking and the Liberal Arts

• A Workshop to Enhance Inclusivity in Economics at Liberal Arts Colleges

AALAC Workshops Funded in 2014

• Blended Learning Approaches to Teaching Early Modern France in a Liberal Arts Context

• The Age of Unnatural Disasters-an Interdisciplinary Working Group

• Race and Diversity Across the ES Curriculum

• New Directions in Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity

• Professors and The Publics- Liberal Arts Colleges, Public Engagement, and the Way Forward

• Teaching Chinese Cinema at American Liberal Arts Colleges

• Mentoring Research in Developmental Psychology in the Liberal Arts College Environment

• Big Data-Implications for the Liberal Arts Curriculum

• Teaching Finance at Liberal Arts Colleges

• The Economic History of Race, Class and Gender

• Critical Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning

AALAC Workshops Funded in 2013

• Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and the Liberal Arts

• Internationalizing Women's Education Altering Environments, Shifting Identities

• Enhancing Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum

• The Humanities Lab

• Developing meaningful, hybrid introductory German course modules

• Visual Studies in the Liberal Arts

• African Studies in the Small Liberal Arts Context: Experiments in (post-) colonial reading and pedagogy

• Prison Education and a Liberal Arts Curriculum

• Look Outward: Renewed Alliances and New Geographies for Asian American Literary and Visual Studies

• The Role of MOOCs in the Liberal Arts

AALAC Workshops Funded in 2012

• Clinical Psychology in the Liberal Arts College

• Connected Histories of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia Workshop

• Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts

• Inorganic Chemistry

• Learning and Teaching Physical Sciences in the Liberal Arts College

• Mentoring a New Generation of Colleagues

• Political Science in the Liberal Arts

AALAC Workshops Funded in 2011

• A Semester in Harlem: Developing a Multidisciplinary Learning Community On-Site

• Assessing Students’ Research Skills: How Do They Research, How Do They Learn to Research, and How Good is their Research?

• Bringing Study Abroad Home: Integrating the Experience Abroad with the Liberal Arts

• Change and Continuity: Economic History in the Liberal Arts Context

• Creating an AALAC Working Group on “Information”

• Collaboration in the Arts: Building Artistic Interdisciplinarity at the Liberal Arts College

• Deaf across the Curriculum

• High Impact Educational Practices for Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields for First Generation and Under Represented Minority Students: Focus on Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Integrated Chemistry: Innovative upper-Level Laboratory Experiences

• Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the Liberal Arts

• Teaching from the Archives

Mellon 23 Collaborative Workshops 2010

• Book Studies and the Liberal Arts

• Economic History and Development: Common Insights

• Feminism and Science: Building Bridges for Teaching and Research Innovation

• Liberal Arts Education, Collaborative Research, and the Humanities

• Collaborative workshop on Nature, Race, and Ethnicity: Curriculum and Pedagogy

• Shaping the Future of Teacher Preparation through the Liberal Arts

• Strengthening Bridges between Statistics and the Natural Sciences

• Sustainability Education in the Liberal Arts Context

• Teaching and Maintaining Multidisciplinary First-Year Seminar Programs

Mellon 23 Collaborative Workshops 2009

• Broadening Access to STEM Workshop

• Workshop on Global Reimannian Geometry, Orbifolds, and Related Topics

• Apuleius, Colonial of the Roman Empire

• Learning and Teaching Physical Sciences in the Liberal Arts College: Forging a Research Agenda

• Workshop in Linguistics

• Diaspora and Gender Workshop

• Teaching During Wartime: Security Studies in the Liberal Arts

• Feminist Ethics and Women’s Studies—Renewal

• Integrating Inter-College Undergraduate Research Affiliations to a Multi-Campus Environmental Analysis Program at the Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology, Costa Rica

Mellon 23 Collaborative Workshops 2008

• Building Musical Intuitions: Teaching Music Theory at a Liberal Arts College

• Media Studies in the Liberal Arts

• The New (Digital) Archivalism, the Humanities, and the Liberal Arts Classroom

• Evaluating Teaching and Learning at Liberal Arts Colleges: New Insights from Institutional Data

• Sharing and Disseminating Innovative Approaches to Teaching Neuroscience in a Liberal Arts College

• Middle East Studies and the Liberal Arts Workshop

• Student/Faculty Research Models in Computational Biology

• Africana/Diaspora Studies in the 21st Century: Building Community through a Northeast Consortium

• The Future of Black/Africana Studies at Liberal Arts Colleges