Shalom Staub

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: research on the Indian American community of central Pennsylvania. Follow this link to profiles of community members. research connected to my course on new immigrants and religious diversity, affiliated with Harvard University's Pluralism Project; research growing out of my 2004 First Year Seminar on Religion and Conflict, focusing on Carlisle's planned response to the expected Westboro Baptist Church anti-gay demonstrations in December 2004. Follow this link to the read this student research.
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).	Religious Diversity News Headlines from the Pluralism Project Read more at the Pluralism Project's Religious Diversity News