Technology doesn’t have to be digital to be useful in teaching.
Leading Lines Episode 47. Derek Bruff, features an interview with Kimberly Rogers, who uses games and simulations in her sociology courses, two very analog technologies. Kimberly talks about why she teaches with games and simulations, about the importance of role-playing in discussing hard topics, and about the combination of experiential learning and productive failure she’s found useful in teaching her students and...
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In an exhibit at the Dartmouth Library’s Rauner Special Collections Library in Webster Hall, the students of Professor Deborah King’s Sociology 79.08 class, “Lest We Forget: History, Collective Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth,” explore the role played by the enslaved people of its first two presidents, and the College and Hanover as a site for the intellectual, moral and political debates surrounding slavery.
The exhibit is on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries at Rauner Library...
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The populist Danish People’s Party formed a bloc in Parliament in the early 2000s, and pushed for a series of increasingly xenophobic anti-immigrant laws. These laws, Professor of Sociology Brooke Harrington argues, "not only embarrassed [Denmark] internationally but also sabotaged its own economy and undermined its own longstanding development efforts." Professor Harrington was prosecuted under one of these laws for giving lectures on her academic research to the Danish Parliament and to...
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In a recently published article, Mellon Faculty Fellow Sunmin Kim argues that current political science models are not able to fully capture intra-group differences and inter-group commonalities among racial and ethnic minorities. In the article,...
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Rural America is in the midst of major demographic change. Research shows that while rural places on average are still 80% white, 82% of new population growth is among people of color. How are those people of color welcomed in New England? Associate Professor Emily Walton shares what she has learned in a WBUR Cognoscenti op-ed, "...
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There are more billionaires today than ever before. How did that happen, and how does the accumulation of vast sums of money by individuals affect the world? In the "Billionaires" episode of the Netflix series Explained, Dartmouth Professor of Sociology Brooke Harrington shares her...
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Visiting Associate Professor Kristin Smith has spent years researching the gender wage gap in New Hampshire. She discussed her research in a recent interview with WMUR.
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In an Op-ed in USA Today, Associate Professor Emily Walton aruges that all students, and particularly white students, would benefit from taking a race and ethnicity course in college. The insights and understanding learned from such a course, Professor Walton argues, would help students to critique and challenge systemic oppression, which would improve society as a whole.
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Dartmouth's ties to slavery - and recent attempts to bring those ties to the fore - are examined in a recent Valley News article, Research helps Dartmouth confront the ties to slavery in its past. Associate Professor of Sociology Deborah King has been instrumental in exploring the history of slavery at Dartmouth. Her course...
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Romantic relationships and familial relationships receive a lot of attention in media, but friendship is a vital, if often overlooked, part of our lives. Associate Professor Janice McCabe talks about friendships on NPR's The 1A.