Manan Ahmed

Associate Professor of History, A&S (Contemporary Civilization) 

Manan Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, A&S (Contemporary Civilization). He researches and teaches the history of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. His publications include A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016) and The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020). In addition to teaching in the Core, Manan teaches courses such as “History of South Asia I,” “Worlds of Mughal India,” “Borderlands: Towards the Spatial History of Empire,” and “Walking & Colonialsm.” He incorporates a Digital History Lab into most of his courses.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Seminar Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 15, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

Hannah Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, A&S (Literature Humanities)

Hannah Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. In addition to teaching Lit Hum in the Core, she teaches and writes about the literature of medieval Europe, particularly the regions now known as England and France. She has offered courses on the Normans, transcultural exchange in the Middle Ages, and the early literature of Britain. Her research concerns genre, language, and manuscripts, and has appeared or is forthcoming in JMEMS, New Medieval Literatures, and Viator. She is currently working on a monograph on the history of the textual practice of interpolation and interpolative revisions of the history of Britain with the working title Past Times: Narrative and Interpolation in Medieval Histories of Britain.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Seminar Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 15, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

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Zachary Domach

PhD Candidate in Religion, A&S (Literature Humanities)

Zachary Domach is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His dissertation focuses on the role played by wisdom literature in the transmission and reception of the classical tradition among Christians. He currently holds appointments as a Core Preceptor for Literature Humanities course and as a Senior Teaching Consultant with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). He was previously selected for the CTL’s Teaching Assessment Fellowship, Senior CTL Fellowship, and Teaching Observation Fellowship. Zachary is a Beinecke Scholar and a recipient of the University of Oxford’s George and Apphia Woodruffe Scholarship in Theology. Most recently he received the Core Preceptor Award for Teaching Excellence.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Seminar Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 15, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

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Denise Cruz

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, A&S

Denise Cruz is a scholar of gender and sexuality in national and transnational cultures, with special interests in the Philippines and Asian American literature. Her publications cover a range of subjects, from the connections between the rise of English literature and the women’s suffrage movement in Manila; to the vibrant high fashion world of contemporary Filipino couture; to the artistic strategies modernist authors used to imagine a transpacific world during the early twentieth century. She is the recipient of the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty award, the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, and most recently, an Innovative Course Design Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grant for the project: “Reimagining the Humanities Lecture in a Transnational, Pandemic World.” The latter supported the redesign of her large lecture course in Asian American literature (see the course trailer).

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Large Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 16, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

Amanda Sarafian

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Occupational Therapy), CUIMC

Amanda Sarafian is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program at CUIMC where she teaches pediatric clinical courses, the elective “Children with Medical Complexity” and guest lectures in mental health and conditions courses.  She is an occupational therapist with 25 years of clinical experience working with patients across the lifespan in a variety of settings. Her research interests include development and validation of performance-based measures and interventions for children and youth with movement disorders, primarily cerebral palsy.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Large Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 16, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

Beth Barron

Associate Professor of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, CUIMC

Dr. Beth Barron is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Course Director for Foundations of Clinical Medicine Tutorials, and Associate Director of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Mary & Michael Jaharis Simulation Center. In her clinical role, Dr. Barron is in the Division of Internal Medicine at the Allen Hospital. She is currently a member of a national study on the implementation of Core Entrustable Professional Activities to Enter Residency sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Barron attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed her residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Beth is a recipient of a 2020 Innovative Course Design Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grant.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Lab or Simulation Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 17, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy

Lecturer in the Discipline of Innovation and Design, SEAS

Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Innovation and Design in the Mechanical Engineering department.  He focuses on project-based and active-learning courses that seek to engage and improve engineering education through the design process. Yevgeniy currently teaches Mechanical Engineering Lab 1, Machine Design, and the full year senior capstone design course, Engineering Design. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan for his work in legged robotic optimal energetics and his BE from The Cooper Union.

Yevgeniy is a recipient of a 2020 Innovative Course Design Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grant.

Panel Discussion: Engaging Students in Lab or Simulation Classes: Adapting to Hybrid and Online Teaching. March 17, 12:00 PM–1:00PM

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