My latest article of 2020 is now live. “Create Collaborative Videos to Build Historical Engagement” is with History News Network. Please check it out! And watch the embedded videos, too! Thanks! Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda
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Welcoming Activities That Work
I had another article come out today, “Welcoming Activities That Work.” This one in Inside Higher Ed with the headline “Professors, think again before having students simply make rules on the first day of class, and instead create ways to… Read More ›
Suggestions for Teaching about Race
I wrote an article back in June that was published in Inside Higher Ed today. It talks about race, theory, pedagogy, and the past. In particular, it outlines suggestions for talking about race in our current historical moment. Please find it… Read More ›
A Vision of College Students Today
Please note: I first wrote the following article in December 2019. I kept making tweaks to it and submitted it a number of places in December, in January, and in February with no takers. I thought about tweaking it to include the COIVD19… Read More ›
Notes on: Homeschooling
COVID19 has presented challenge after challenge. (And let’s not forget that our ever-more evil POTUS knew about its threat and had options to minimize its impact, but chose to ignore them.) For a blog post here, I wanted to briefly… Read More ›
Kindergarten Goes to the University Classroom: The Educational Value of Show and Tell
My latest article is now live! History News Network published this one. It details a new activity my students in Secularisms and Atheisms did last semester. I encourage other professors to adopt the practice, too! Please give it a read, like,… Read More ›
The “Big Idea” Gender Studies Syllabus
This is the third installment in my “Big Idea Syllabus” series inspired by Dr. Michael Wesch’s “Big Idea” Syllabus for Anthropology. My “Big Idea” Syllabus for History can be found here, for Writing here. The “Big Idea” Syllabus for Gender… Read More ›
Fall 2019 Class Pictures
The tradition continues! We’re doing more silly ones, but here are the end-of-semester pictures for the Fall 2019! The last day of classes were before Thanksgiving this year! This semester I taught Sexuality and Queer Theory, Introduction to Women’s Studies,… Read More ›