UNC Chapel Hill: APPLES Service-Learning Program: For Faculty



	2006 Ueltschi Grant Recipients Dr. Timothy Marr, Assistant Professor, American Studies Timothy Marr has been an Assistant Professor in the Curriculum in American Studies since 2000, where he has taught seminars in such subjects as Mating and Marriage, Cultural Memory, and Captivity, as well as Tobacco. A third-generation teacher, he worked in schools in California , Pakistan, and Australia before completing his doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. His courses are designed to stimulate and deepen students' capacity to analyze the changing processes of cultural formation. He was awarded a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006. The life and works of Herman Melville and American attitudes towards the Muslim world are two of his central research interests. AMST 259, “Tobacco and America” This course examines the complex cultural significance of tobacco, a plant of great local importance to North Carolina, by placing it in a variety of historical and interdisciplinary contexts. Students will volunteer with various tobacco connected organizations, such as Quit Now NC and the Tobacco Farm Life Museum. Dr. Della Pollock, Professor, Communication Studies Della Pollock is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in the areas of Performance and Cultural Studies. She is the author of Telling Bodies Performing Birth: Everyday Narratives of Childbirth (Columbia University Press, 1999), and editor of Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and Remembering: Oral History Performance (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). She has recently served as an associate editor on Internationalizing Cultural Studies (eds. Erni and Abbas, Blackwell, 2004) and The Performance Studies Handbook (eds. Hamera and Madison, Sage, 2005). She is co-editor of the international journal, Cultural Studies. COMM 562, “Performance and Oral History” This course will be discussion and performance-centered. It will explore the potential for performance to contribute to the understanding the complex experience of race, spirituality, and desegregation in Chapel Hill. It will complement archival and field research with learning in and through performance. Students will collaborate with local churches to capture various oral histories. Dr. Jordynn Jack, Assistant Professor, English Jordynn Jack (BA, York University; MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of English. Her research and teaching interests include the history of rhetoric, women’s rhetoric, the rhetoric of science, writing in the disciplines, and service learning pedagogy. She is the former director of the Leonhard Center Technical Writing Initiative at Pennsylvania State University, a program that coordinates service learning assignments and guest speakers for technical writing courses. At UNC, she has taught APPLES courses in conjunction with the Shodor Foundation, the Coker Arboretum, and the Center for Healthy Student Behaviors. Ms. Melissa Birkhofer, Graduate Student, English Melissa D. Birkhofer, a graduate student in Comparative Literature, studies contemporary Caribbean women’s literature focusing on literature as a recuperative space for remembering and documenting women’s contributions to society, especially in time of political unrest. Her current project involves an analysis of historical fiction of the 1937 Massacre of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic and how women’s roles, as political activists leading up to the Massacre and as healers in the aftermath, can be voiced through literature since they are often silenced in historical documents. Because she focuses on women as citizens and activists, she iscommitted to the service-learning model she co-developed with colleagues Dr. Jordynn Jack and Prof Heath Sledge because student activism is integrated into the course assignments and students become active members of the UNC community. Ms. Heath Sledge, Graduate Student, English Heath Sledge is a second-year graduate student in the English department, specializing in 19th century American and British literature; her particular interests include Henry and William James, the 19th century novel, and identity theory. This is her first year of teaching composition for the English department. ENG 12, “English Composition and Rhetoric” English 12 prepares students for academic writing across three disciplines: natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. This course will focus on primary, hands-on research to encourage student writing that address various outside audiences. Students will collaborate with various non-profit organizations to create a research and writing materials. Ms. Tara Muller, K-12 International Outreach Coordinator, International Studies Tara Muller is the Coordinator of the K-12 International Outreach Program at the University Center for International Studies at UNC-CH. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she received double Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Journalism with a concentration in public relations in 2002. A native of North Carolina, Tara is pleased to work with a program where her international experience can be put to use serving the public schools of her home state. In 1997, Tara spent a year as an American Field Service exchange student in Switzerland where she lived with a host family in the Alps. She traveled to Thailand and Southeast Asia for a four-month journey with a UNC-CH Francis Phillips Travel Scholarship and has also visited Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa through World Camp for Kids, a student led organization she helped to organize in 2000. Since 2003, Tara has worked to grow the UCIS K-12 International Outreach Program by implementing a new presenter training, an enhanced database system, and significantly increasing the number of presentations delivered each year. Tara is excited to offer the INTS 290 course: International Education in K-12 Classrooms in conjunction with the APPLES service-learning program this fall. Dr. Niklaus Steiner, UCIS Executive Director, International Studies Niklaus Steiner is the Executive Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Switzerland who moved to the U.S. in his youth, Niklaus has had the good fortune of being able to move back and forth between two cultures all his life. This life experience has shaped his academic focus. Niklaus earned a B.A. in International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill where he graduated with Highest Honors. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations at Northwestern University. His research and teaching interests include refugees, nationalism, and national identity, and his publications include "Arguing About Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe" (St. Martin's, 2000); "The Problems of Protection: UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights" eds. Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher (Routledge 2003); "Regionalism in the Age of Globalism", eds. Lothar Hönnighausen, Marc Frey, James Peacock, and Niklaus Steiner (Wisconsin, 2005); and "The Age of Apology: The West Confronts its Past" eds. Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner (United Nations University Press, forthcoming). INTS 290, “International Education in K-12 Classrooms” Our most basic assumptions about the world and its people are shaped during our formative years as elementary and secondary school students. For many North Carolinians, the closest international experience they will encounter may be meeting a new immigrant, exchange student, or international outreach classroom presenter. This class is an investigation of international education in North Carolina classrooms and will explore best practices in teaching and public speaking techniques for integrating cultural knowledge, international issues and global perspectives into the K-12 curriculum. Dr. Elizabeth Dougall, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication 2006 Recipient: Edward Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching Dr. Elizabeth Dougall has attracted national and international recognition for her research applying the content analysis of media sources to describe the public opinion environment of organizations at the population or industry level of analysis over time. In addition to her track record in academia, her extensive industry experience in public relations and corporate communications has included counseling and conducting applied research for organizations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada. Dougall teaches graduate and undergraduate public relations classes, including several classes that partner students with government agencies and community organizations to develop effective communication campaigns. Many of these student-designed campaigns focus on public health and safety issues such as distracted driving and motorcycle safety. In March 2006, she received a UNC-CH Ueltschi Grant to develop a crisis communication service-learning class requiring field engagement with a community partner to research, design and implement a crisis response and recovery strategy. Her work has most recently been published in Public Relations Review and the Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal. In May 2005, Dougall’s research was featured in the national trade PR Week, as part of the “new science” of public relations. JOMC 491, “Crisis Communication Management” All organizations experience crises. Crises interrupt organizational routines and attract extreme public and media scrutiny. This course will introduce principles of effective crisis management. Students will serve with non-profit or governmental organizations needing crisis communication assistance. Questions, comments? Email us at apples@unc.edu