When American Religion Goes Digital: Pedagogical Innovation in the Teaching of American Religion(s) 

Please make plans to join us for a special RAME Workshop event (co-sponsored with the Craft of Teaching program) this Thursday 12:00-1:30pm, Swift Hall Room 201.

Monica Mercado (PhD ’14, Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University) will lead a conversation thinking at once about pedagogical innovations in the teaching of American religions—focusing especially on the perils and possibilities of the digital humanities for the undergraduate classroom—while also considering how graduate students approaching the academic job market can prepare to write and speak about their teaching experience. (Prof. Mercado, who recently navigated the job market successfully, will pre-circulate her teaching philosophy statement for those who plan to attend the session.) In advance of the workshop, participants are asked to review Ashley Reed’s “Digital Humanities and the study and teaching of North American religions,” in Religion Compass (2016).

Coffee and tea provided (No lunch)