The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD, is the podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series features dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversations will illumine the teaching life.
Host: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD
Producer: Rachel Mills
Sound Engineer: Paul O. Myhre, PhD & Paul Utterback
Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre, PhD
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 320
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 103 - Resilience After Crisis Teaching?: Mai-Anh Le Tran
With no manual for this moment in teaching, we have these questions: After triage strategies, what does it take to pursue a discovery process to reestablish education? What are the new sets of questi…
Episode 102 - Intersectional Hindu Studies : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Where do we fit? How do we talk about the caste supremacy of South Asia as well as of the USA, without our students exoticizing us? What does it take to teach as racialized scholars who teach the dis…
Episode 101 - Is Theological Education Prepared for This Moment?: Phillis Sheppard
Given the insurrection of January 6, anti-queer, anti-Black, anti-Semitic, xenophobic views have got to be questioned. Sustained awareness, analysis, and teaching for justice is necessary. Dr. Nancy …
Episode 100 - My Candid Story of Becoming a Teacher: Diana Hayes
"I did not, initially, want to be a teacher. God snatched me up! I learned to teach to my own design and for students' needs." Advise for new teachers from an emerita faculty elder. Dr. Nancy Lynne …
Episode 99 - Anti-Racism Work as the Work of the People: Melanie Harris & Jennifer Harvey
Previously recorded as a Wabash Center webinar. Dismantling the systems and healing the wounds of racism requires a communal effort. What habits, strategies, and practices might a school undertake to…
Episode 98 - How Do We Show Up as Educators?: Melanie Jones
What is embodied teaching? What is the politics of body in on-line classrooms? What is a professional online face? How do I provide the best of my public self? Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Me…
Episode 97 - What is the Identity of the Teacher in On-Line Classrooms?: Eric Barreto
What does it take to orient yourself and students to on-line conversations? Meeting the complexity of remote teaching takes imagination, time and struggle. Walking along-side students during social u…
Episode 96 - Breathing Room: Amy Oden
Taking time to breathe, calm and focus is critical to effective teaching. How does one avoid the pitfall of adding to the CV at the expense of personal health and wellness? In what ways can course pl…
Episode 95 - White Rage!: Dr. Melanie Harris & Dr. Jennifer Harvey
What is white rage? What does it mean that racism so permeates school ecologies that white rage is not noticed by anyone other than its victims? What is the loss to the institution for white rage? Ho…
Episode 94 - Online Learning & Student Engagement: Carol B. Duncan
Rekindling engagement of the unknown, the unsure, the uncertain can happen in on-line teaching. What does it mean not to shame, blame, or cringe while making mistakes in front of students? Practicing…
Episode 93 - Faculty Obstacles: Miguel De La Torre
What obstacles hinder faculty of color from being successful? What institutional strategies might remove unnecessary obstacles? How do creative and committed faculty survive with their hearts intact?…
Episode 92 - Vocational Anxiety & Opportunity: Edwin Aponte
What does it mean to honor a call to scholarship when tenure-track is not an option? What would it mean for senior scholars to assist contingency faculty? Communities of accountability are needed in …
Episode 91 - Theology in the Service of the People: Hosffman Ospino
How are people who are alive doing theology? What does it mean to be Catholic given the surge of Hispanic members? Teaching the Catholic religious experience as a Latino scholar? Dr. Nancy Lynne West…
Episode 90 - Permission for Relevant Scholarship: Leah Gunning Francis
Society needs scholars who are curious about right now and the coming future. The production of knowledge includes creativity and imagination. In these moments of pandemics, consider your responsibil…
Episode 89 - Personal Agency Needed for Anti-Racist Work
This podcast was originally featured as a webinar with Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Dr. Melanie Harris (Texas Christian University), and Dr. Jennifer Harvey (Drake University). White America must chall…
Episode 88 - Irregardless is the Word I Choose!: Pamela Lightsey
What is the freedom that language provides? Speaking in the dialect of the people honors the people and makes scholarship accessible. Who is the self who dares wield the power of voice for social cha…
Episode 87 - Audacious Project!: Boyung Lee
What does it take to ready schools for diversity? What is the evidence of the shift to anti-racist culture? Hear the story of a seminary who is making the commitment to diversity and cultural humilit…
Episode 86 - Standing a Far Off: Kimberly Russaw
What does it mean to mentor and be mentored? Who is the person(s) who will nurture, affirm, encourage, listen and support vocational decisions? Who is the person who will allow themselves to be mento…
Episode 85 - En Conjunto = All Together: Joanne Rodriguez
Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) has been supporting Latinx scholarship for 25 years. Hear the story of this timely and much needed project; gain insights about ways racially particular projects…
Episode 84 - Dreaming and New Theologians: Patrick Reyes
Since theological education has many starting points, how do we include encounters with our grandmothers? In what ways might theological education restructure in order to honor our ancestors and bab…