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Nancy Lynne Westfield Publications
Publications of Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield Blogs Huffington Post – contributor 2015-16. Wabash Center Blogs under the headings of “Reflective Teaching,” “Teaching, Religion, Politics,” “Learning from the Front (of the Classroom)” – 2014 to present. Podcasts “Dialogue on Teaching” moderated for Wabash Center. “Womanist Conversation” moderated by Dr. Tina Pippin, in conversation with ...

Grants
Peer Mentoring Clusters Grants   Application: Not Accepting   Peer Mentoring Cluster Grants support the development of small groups of peers whose interactions enrich and strengthen teaching and the teaching life. The grants, awarded in amounts up to $10,000, serve full-time BIPOC faculty who teach Religion or Theology at colleges, universities ...

Recommended Reading
Recommendations from Wabash Center Workshop Leaders We asked several of the leaders of our teaching workshops and colloquies to recommend just one or two books, articles or websites that they would recommend as valuable resources for teachers.

 This short list provides a path into the vast field of the scholarship ...

Welcome

      The Wabash Center is Hiring The Wabash Center Programs The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching   Read Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Teaching Identity     Dialogue On Teaching Podcast   Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and ...

Our Staff
Nancy Lynne Westfield Director 800-655-7117 765-361-6434 westfiel@wabash.edu Curriculum Vitae Sarah F. Farmer Associate Director 800-655-7117 765-361-6316 farmers@wabash.edu Curriculum vitae Rebecca Badertscher Project Coordinator 800-655-7117 765-361-6441 badertsr@wabash.edu Read More Paul J. Utterback Communications and Digital Media Administrator 800-655-7117 765...

Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality
From the Publishers What allows African American women not just to survive, but to become resilient? N. Lynne Westfield finds an answer to this question as she examines the Dear Sisters' Literary Group. As a Womanist scholar, Westfield reflects on the ways in which the hospitality of the group relates ...

"Hospes: The Wabash Center as a Site of Transformative Hospitality "
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is a place of hospitality and its staff the epitome of the "good host." This essay explores the meaning of hospitality, including its problematic dimensions, drawing on a number of voices and texts: Jacques Derrida's Of Hospitality; Henri M. ...

Being Black Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies
A group of eminent African American scholars of religoius and theological studies examines the problems and prospects of Black scholarhip in the theological academy. They assess the role that prominent African American scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of religion and theology, the need for a more ...

"Responses to Hugh Heclo's On Thinking Institutionally"
Hugh Heclo's recent book On Thinking Institutionally (Paradigm Publishers, 2008) analyzes changes that have taken place in the past half century in how North Americans tend to think and act in institutions. The volume is receiving particular attention as it can be applied to higher education and to religious denominations, and ...

"Kitchen Table Banter as Engaged Pedagogy"

For the Sake of Possibility, Nurture Curiosity
(An audio version of this blog may be found here.) We were not gathered to analyze the problems facing systems of education, societal storms, weaponized misinformation, wars around the globe, or climate change. We were not convened to solve problems of organizational structures or craft new and much needed policies ...

You Blows Who You Is/Blow Yourself
It doesn’t sound nearly as poetic when I try to recount Louis Armstrong’s famous line about authentic self-expression after I return home from the week-long Creative Writing Roundtable hosted by the Wabash Center for a group of fourteen professors, preachers, and researchers. We spent the time deeply immersed ...

Dare to Be an Amateur at Something
(An audio version of this blog may be found here.)  My editor is one of my most ardent supporters and a beloved friend. We are working, together, on my next book. He has not, in many months, received any pages from me. At a recent gathering, he asked me if ...

Sharing the Gold
(An audio recording of this blog may be found here.)  With people all around the globe, my attention was captured by the Paris 2024 Olympics. I tuned into the TV coverage as often as I could. Watching world class athletes perform their craft is spellbinding. Athletes performing at the highest level, ...

Aspiring to Power, Influence and Humility
(An audio recording of this blog post may be found here.) One of the first requests I received in my new role as Director of the Wabash Center was to convene a group of “late-career” scholars. I said no. The friend requesting the workshop explained that they had participated in ...

"Hospes: The Wabash Center as a Site of Transformative Hospitality "
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is a place of hospitality and its staff the epitome of the "good host." This essay explores the meaning of hospitality, including its problematic dimensions, drawing on a number of voices and texts: Jacques Derrida's Of Hospitality; Henri M. ...

"Responses to Hugh Heclo's On Thinking Institutionally"
Hugh Heclo's recent book On Thinking Institutionally (Paradigm Publishers, 2008) analyzes changes that have taken place in the past half century in how North Americans tend to think and act in institutions. The volume is receiving particular attention as it can be applied to higher education and to religious denominations, and ...

Faculty Development for Teaching and Learning in Drew’s Culturally Diverse Community
Two weekend faculty retreats that will enhance teaching theory and skills specifically for a racially/culturally diverse seminary population.

Women and Pedagogy Project
The small grant will be used to gather a leadership team of women scholars/ teachers of religion and theology to discuss the notion of indignation as a rubric for understanding women faculty issues -- particularly teacher identity, the influence of indignation on vocation, classroom practices, and oppressive forces which seek ...

Can Courage Be Taught? Teaching within the Confines of Systemic Hatred: A Book Proposal
The grant will support the writing of a book proposal and manuscript created from the many blogs I have written for Wabash. Like the blogs, the book will focus on issues of teaching, learning, identity politics, race and racism. Thinking through and creating a cohesive manuscript from my blogs will ...

Being Black/Teaching Black: An African-American Dialogue Connecting the Influences of Blackness in Theological Education Teaching Practices
Support for an African-American cohort group to engage the central question of how our embodiment of Black Church/Black Theology/Black culture influences our teaching in theological and religious studies. Goals include: charting the impact that Black presence has had on theological pedagogy; consideration of the liminality of Black theological ...