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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 Opens: December 18, 2023
Application Deadline: March 20, 2024
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 ...
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 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 Learning in Theology and Religion. ...
Our Staff
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Associate Director
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Communications and Digital Media Coordinator
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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 ...
Teaching One-on-One
An audio version of this blog post may be found here.
It was the first morning of my vacation. The restaurant at the resort had a waiting list for breakfast patrons. The hostess took my phone number and said I would be called when a table opened. I thanked her ...
Judged by Your Behavior: Talk is Cheap
(An audio recording of this blog may be found here.)
Classroom spaces are places of intimacy and influence. Teaching is a human-to-human encounter.
Course planning typically focuses on the many ways the academic content shapes, forms, and informs students. In our planning, what we too often underestimate, and under plan ...
A Change of Pace: Outdoor Assignments
Sometimes students just need a change of pace. Sometimes their professor needs a break. It’s nice when those two moments coincide. [For more on the power of surprises in the classroom, see Dr. Lynne Westfield’s February blog post]. The rhythm of class, even when it’s an active ...
Senior Scholar as Historian, Gatekeeper, Elder
(An audio version of this blog may be accessed here.)
The rank of senior scholar is the highest and most revered. The hierarchy of the academy creates senior scholars by assigning newly minted faculty with the status of junior scholar, then over several years through a process of review, tenure ...
Articulating Your Intellectual Project
(An audio version of this blog may be accessed here.)
As scholar/teachers, we must have and be able to articulate our intellectual project. It is good if it happens in the early career stages of a scholarly career, but it is never too late.
A scholar’s intellectual project ...
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"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 ...