Shalom Staub

Shalom Staub, Ph.D. *Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs* 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 am responsible for the following programs at Dickinson: Learning Communities, Service-Learning/Community-Based Research , and the Conflict Resolution Resource Center. I serve as the advisor to Sustained Dialogue, the student-led effort to build constructive relationships across racial, ethnic, religious and other differences, and I am mentor to New York Posse 7. I also coordinate the Dickinson student submissions to the Katherine Wasserman Davis Foundation's 100 Projects for Peace program. I am the project director for Dickinson's Bringing Theory to Practice "National Demonstration Site" programs on engaged learning, civic engagement, and student wellness.
Teaching: In the 2009-2010 year, I am teaching Ethnography of Jewish Experience in the Fall Semester (cross-listed with Sociology, Religion, Judaic Studies). This course is linked to Sociology 313: Oral History and Jewish Immigration to Argentina, with a January 2010 research trip to Buenos Aires. For Spring 2010, I am teaching Saints and Demons: Jewish and Muslim Vernacular Religion in the Middle East (Cross-listed Religion and Judaic Studies, and an elective in Middle East Studies). Other courses that I regularly teach include: Conflict and Conflict Resolution Studies; Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking; New American Religious Diversity, and South Asian Diaspora in the US.
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.	Religious Diversity News Headlines from the Pluralism Project Read more at the Pluralism Project's Religious Diversity News