CTS/Wabash Teaching Workshop
Through a generous grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, The College Theology Society is pleased to offer a teaching workshop titled The Gift and Challenge of Difference in the Classroom, for 25 CTS members from Wednesday morning June 2nd through Thursday afternoon June 3rd at the University of Portland in Oregon (immediately prior to the annual meeting). The workshop will deepen insights collectively shared at the society’s Open Forum on “Race, Diversity and Pedagogy” held during the 2009 annual convention and maintain a sustained conversion (face to face and on-line) regarding teaching and learning about race and diversity in the undergraduate classroom.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Objectives include:
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Anmol Satiani is a Counseling Psychologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago Counseling Center. As part of her work there, she is involved with clinical service, often with underserved students, outreach to students, faculty, and staff, the administration of a crisis hotline, and supervision of psychologists-in-training. Her clinical, teaching, and research interests have focused on issues of race, racial identity, gender, migration, cross-cultural issues, and trauma. Anmol also has a small clinical practice in Chicago and has taught courses in Psychology at both Boston College and DePaul Universities. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston College’s Counseling Psychology program. She is widely published in the pedagogy of diversity.
Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race at the Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI), Loyola University New Orleans, a “think and action” tank addressing issues of race, poverty, and migration from the perspective of Catholic social teaching. He brings twenty years experience integrating spirituality, theology, and social justice advocacy, teaching, and scholarship addressing issues of white privilege, racism, and poverty. He co-edited, with Laurie Cassidy, Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence (Orbis, 2007), which won the 2008 College Theology Society’s Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team (PCART). In his work for JSRI, he is deeply involved in anti-racism education and advocacy in Louisiana and Mississippi.
ABOUT APPLYING: To apply for “The Gift and Challenge of Difference: 2010” please answer the following questions in either an email to Laurie Cassidy ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or as a separate attachment to the same by no later than March 1th. All applicants will be notified by March 10th. Please feel free to spread the word about the workshop, but CTS Membership is required for acceptance.
Contact Information
Name:
Position:
Institution:
Address:
Email:
Phone:
Pedagogical Information
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Objectives include:
- Deepen insights collectively shared at the society’s Open Forum on “Race, Diversity, and Pedagogy” held during 2009 annual convention
- Reflect on the effect of racism and white privilege, and diversity on our self-understandings and theological vocations, both as teachers and scholars
- Develop a deeper understanding of the historical, cultural and theological roots of racism and white privilege, both in theory and practice
- Create a list of “best-practices” and pedagogical resources to share broadly with the wider membership that help to make the classroom a rich environment for doing theology
- Develop participants’ professional portfolios by offering opportunities for paper presentations and academic publishing that integrate teaching and research
- A basic orientation to the central concepts and literature in area of race and privilege
- Identify resources to support classroom initiatives to unlearn privilege and foster meaningful solidarity amidst difference
- Identify and practice the skills necessary to re-create non-judgmental spaces in the classroom
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Anmol Satiani is a Counseling Psychologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago Counseling Center. As part of her work there, she is involved with clinical service, often with underserved students, outreach to students, faculty, and staff, the administration of a crisis hotline, and supervision of psychologists-in-training. Her clinical, teaching, and research interests have focused on issues of race, racial identity, gender, migration, cross-cultural issues, and trauma. Anmol also has a small clinical practice in Chicago and has taught courses in Psychology at both Boston College and DePaul Universities. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston College’s Counseling Psychology program. She is widely published in the pedagogy of diversity.
Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race at the Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI), Loyola University New Orleans, a “think and action” tank addressing issues of race, poverty, and migration from the perspective of Catholic social teaching. He brings twenty years experience integrating spirituality, theology, and social justice advocacy, teaching, and scholarship addressing issues of white privilege, racism, and poverty. He co-edited, with Laurie Cassidy, Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence (Orbis, 2007), which won the 2008 College Theology Society’s Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team (PCART). In his work for JSRI, he is deeply involved in anti-racism education and advocacy in Louisiana and Mississippi.
ABOUT APPLYING: To apply for “The Gift and Challenge of Difference: 2010” please answer the following questions in either an email to Laurie Cassidy ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or as a separate attachment to the same by no later than March 1th. All applicants will be notified by March 10th. Please feel free to spread the word about the workshop, but CTS Membership is required for acceptance.
Contact Information
Name:
Position:
Institution:
Address:
Email:
Phone:
Pedagogical Information
- What courses do you teach on a regular basis?
- Briefly describe (in 150-200 words) a central issue or dynamic concerning diversity with which you are struggling in the classroom.
- What are your objectives for participating in this workshop? (150-200 words)
- How do you plan to implement and share your learning at the workshop with others in your department and/or institution? (150-200 words)
