Shalom Staub, Ph.D.

Associate Provost for First-Year Programs and Community-Based Learning/Research

First-Year Dean

Director, Conflict Resolution Resource Center

 

Dickinson College

Mailing Address:

PO Box 1773

Carlisle, PA 17013

Campus location: Room 16 (2nd Floor), Old West

Phone: 717-254-8917

Fax: 717-245-1852

E-mail: Shalom Staub

 

Program Responsibilities: I serve as Associate Provost for First-Year Programs and Community-Based Learning/Research, and also First-Year Class Dean. I am specifically responsible for the following programs at Dickinson: First-Year Seminars, Learning Communities, Service-Learning/Community-Based Research , and the Conflict Resolution Resource Center. I served as mentor to New York Posse 7, which graduated in May 2011.  
Teaching: Courses that I will teach in 2011-2012 will include Religion: Conflict,Violence and Peacemaking (in Fall 2011) and Saints and Demons: Jewish and Muslim Vernacular Religion in the Middle East (in Spring 2012). Looking beyond the current year, I am scheduled to teach Conflict and Conflict Resolution Studies in Fall 2012, Ethnography of Jewish Experience in Spring 2013, and in the 2013-2014 academic year: Religion: Conflict, Violence and Peacemaking (Fall) and New American Religious Diversity (Spring).

Collaborative Student Research: I've been involved in several faculty-student collaborative research efforts:

My Bio, Training, Publications, Fieldwork, etc.

New publications: "Service Learning and Learning Communities: Promising Pedagogies," with Ashley Finley. Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures, Spring 2009, Volume 12, no. 2.

“Assessing the Impact of Engaged Learning Initiatives for First-Year Students,” with Ashley Finley. Peer Review, Summer 2007, Volume 9, no. 3. 

"Dickinson College: Engaging Faculty in Learning Communities and Lessons Learned," to appear in Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed, edited by Donald Harward (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).

 

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