TEACHING and MENTORING
My teaching reflects my interests as an intellectual, which are quite broad-ranging. However, the topics and themes of highest priority to me are those that “world social sciences”— attentive to the structurally-induced “knowledge divides” that characterize the international division of intellectual labor—deem to be of high priority (ISSC 2010). This is so, in good part, … Continue reading
Suriname Bound!
I’m in the middle of making plans to go to Paramaribo, Suriname for the first time. I’ve been invited to give an intensive, week-long seminar on feminist, indigenous, and other critical research methodologies. I developed what is to be a module of a year-long methods course that graduate students in the social sciences are required to take … Continue reading
WHAT DOES “TRANSFORMATION” MEAN? Reflections on the Cross-Cultural Glimpses of a Traveler
I had the privilege of spending time in both South Africa and Cuba this past spring. I was on leave, time release they also call it, from my regular job teaching in a large public university in the southeastern region of the U.S. I planned to spend the year catching up on my reading and … Continue reading
Cuban Transformation through the Lens of Black Women
This is a sequel to my earlier entry on transformation in Cape Town, South Africa, based on my experiences and observations this past February and March. As I wrote there, about a month after my return home, I found out about a program that facilitated group travel to Cuba. The particular program was what the educationa travel service called a … Continue reading
Faye V Harrison
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