Pedagogy

The CFMDE sparked the creation of over 190 courses on forced migration taught by over 100 faculty members at 4 undergraduate liberal arts institutions. This transdisciplinary curriculum was anchored by “Lexicon of Forced Migration,” an introduction to the study of migration & displacement taught on every campus. At each college, courses engaged students in their local, regional, and global communities, encouraged hands-on learning, and resulted in student scholarship and artistic work in multiple modalities.

Spotlighting CFMDE Courses

One of the ways that the CFMDE has been institutionalized on our campuses is through permanent courses of study focusing on forced migration, extending beyond the lifetime of the grant. Vassar students and faculty can find information about the correlate sequence in Migration & Displacement Studies, housed in the International Studies Program, on the MDS website.

Lexicon of Migration
Parthiban Muniandy, Sarah Lawrence College

Confronting the ‘Crisis’
Jeff Jurgens, Bard College

Migrants and Refugees in the Americas
Miles Rodriguez, Bard College

Dying in Diaspora
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Bennington College

Sounding Home
Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile - Joe Alpar and Kerry Ryer-Parke, Bennington College

“We Refugees”
A History of Displacement in Modern Europe - Philipp Nielsen, Sarah Lawrence College

Migration, Identity, and Belonging 
Özge Savaş and Lara Solis, Bennington College

Digital Scholars Research Fellowship 2024 Summer Report

CFMDE

The Digital Scholars Program connected scholars who have experienced forced displacement but had established stable living situations with virtual teaching and research fellowships. Building on the integration of pedagogy and scholarship that is foundational to the liberal arts model, this program developed and supported a global network of 11 scholars for whom a more traditional in-person fellowship may have been impractical or altogether impossible. For more information on this program, view the report below.

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The Selective Bibliography of Forced Migration

The Selective Bibliography of Forced Migration was a student-run publication which featured an array of pedagogical articles crafted to introduce varying audiences to interdisciplinary approaches to studying migration.

More about this project was featured in a 2020 EuropeNow article, “A Selective Bibliography of Forced Migration: Resources for A New Generation of Discourse.” The article was co-authored by Vassar students researchers who worked on the publication and CFMDE staff.