Dr. Alisha Knight, Professor of English and American Studies and Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Reckoning with the Past to Foster a Healthier Future “I’m still getting used to being more visible around campus,” Dr. Alisha Knight said, when asked about her position as Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Washington College,…
Category: Faculty in Focus
Faculty in Focus
Dr. Rachel Rodriguez, New Director of the Writing Center Director of the Writing Center Dr. Rachel Rodriguez is delighted to be able to provide guidance to Washington College students interested in developing their academic writing skills. Dr. Rodriguez oversees a team of peer writing consultants. The consultants “have one-on-one, hour-long writing tutorials with students in…
Faculty in Focus: Writing Community
Dr. John Boyd, Director of the Writing Center In addition to teaching a First-Year Seminar, Writing Communities, Dr. Boyd teaches Writing Center Theory and Practice: A Seminar in Peer Tutoring, the course students take in preparation for working in the Writing Center. There, students learn pedagogical principles related to tutoring and develop a critical framework…
Faculty in Focus: Conjuring a Reader
Emily Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology In addition to “Introduction to Anthropology,” Dr. Steinmetz teaches courses such as “Sex, Gender, and Culture” and “Prisons, Punishment, and Social Control.” In her FYS “Liberation,” students correspond with women incarcerated in a Delaware prison while exploring larger questions of what makes us free and unfree. Her current scholarship…
Faculty in Focus: Seriousness of Purpose and a Sense of Play
Heather Harvey, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art + Art History Professor Harvey creates site-specific installations and objects that straddle traditional boundaries between painting, drawing, and sculpture. She is interested in hidden infrastructures and invisible ordering mechanisms—things like gravity, quantum physics, and radio waves, but also the human body, memory, and contradictory emotions like…
Faculty in Focus: Scientific Writing is Challenging and Can Inspire Change
Robin Van Meter, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science/Studies and Biology. Dr. Van Meter researches the effects of environmental pollution on amphibians and reptiles and teaches a range of courses including Applied Ecology, General Zoology, General Biology II, Conservation, and Wetlands Ecology. Her current scholarship investigates the effects of pesticides and fertilizers on juvenile leopard frogs….
Faculty in Focus: The Power of Paragraphs
Michael Harvey, Associate Professor, Department of Business Management. Dr. Harvey is editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Leadership and the Humanities and the co-editor of the book Leadership Studies: the Dialogue of Disciplines. He is the author of The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, a college writing guide now in its second edition, and put to good use by…
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