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
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
- Listen to podcast created by the class
Digital Scholars Research Fellowship 2024 Summer Report
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.
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.