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Category: Dr. Ananda’s Research Posts

This is a collection of posts by postdoctoral fellow Kitana Ananda (2016-2018), who conducted qualitative analysis to understand the communities, processes, challenges, and impacts of the CUNY Humanities Alliance.

Dr. Kitana Ananda‘s scholarship and teaching examine the culture and politics of war, migration, and diaspora in North America and South Asia, with a focus on Tamil refugees and immigrants from Sri Lanka. She believes strongly in the mission of public colleges and universities, and has a deep interest in digital communications for scholarship, collaborative learning, and public engagement. She earned a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.

Dr. Ananda's Research Posts…

Student Evaluations of Teaching Aren't Perfect, But Here's One Way to Use Them

21 May 201820 Jan 2021
How do you know whether things are going well in your class? And whether students are learning anything? Do they like your teaching style? Does your course meet their needs?…
Dr. Ananda's Research Posts…

Event Recap: Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance

10 May 201820 Jan 2021
Notes | Photos | Video (forthcoming) | #fight4edu On Thursday, May 3, 2018, the Futures Initiative hosted a roundtable discussion on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY…
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May 3 Thursday Dialogue: The CUNY Humanities Alliance on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students

19 Apr 201820 Jan 2021
Fellows of the CUNY Humanities Alliance will hold a roundtable discussion at the Futures Initiative's Thursday Dialogues series. Join us to talk about student-centered pedagogy, teaching the humanities in community…
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Reflections on the "Research Paper" Assignment

16 Apr 201820 Jan 2021
Author's note: This post is the third in a three-part series. You can read the first two parts of the series here and here. Now that I’ve discussed how I…
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On Teaching a Research-Based Writing Course: What Worked and What Didn’t

26 Mar 201820 Jan 2021
Author’s Note: This is the second part of a three-part series. You can find the first part, On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course, here. I’ve already discussed my approach to scaffolding…
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On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course

5 Mar 201820 Jan 2021
Author's Note: This is the first part in a three-part series on designing a research-based writing course that culminates in a research paper assignment. In a recent post for this blog,…
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A Semester of Firsts: On Teaching “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College

7 Feb 201820 Jan 2021
Last fall, I had the opportunity to teach “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College. The course is the third part of a composition sequence in LaGuardia’s English department…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: February Edition

5 Feb 201820 Jan 2021
The CUNY Humanities Alliance began this semester at LaGuardia Community College on Friday, February 2, 2018 with the first part of a two part Winter Institute, where fellows workshopped their…
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Event Recap: Reimagining the Digital Humanities with 'New Majority' Students for Public Higher Education

6 Nov 201720 Jan 2021
On Saturday, November 4, 2017, leaders of the CUNY Humanities Alliance and the Futures Initiative’s CUNY Leadership Fellows Program presented at the HASTAC 2017 conference at the University of Central…
Dr. Ananda's Research Posts…

Humanities Alliance Roundup: November Edition

3 Nov 201720 Jan 2021
We’re a little more than halfway through the Fall 2017 semester! The Humanities Alliance’s Graduate Teaching Fellows continue to reflect on their experiences of teaching and learning at LaGuardia: Emily…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: October Edition

4 Oct 201720 Jan 2021
The Fall 2017 semester is fully under way, and our Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellows are blogging about their experiences in the classroom! Check out the following posts from our…
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Recap: Humanities Alliance Institute 2017, Day 1

1 Sep 201720 Jan 2021
On Friday, August 25, the Humanities Alliance welcomed our second cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows at the first day of the program's two day Fall Institute. The Institute began with…

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