Penn State Abington education professor Boni Wozolek's scholarship considers questions of social justice and teaching practices that focus on the examination of race, sexual orientations, and gender identities across schools and communities.
"Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America," the latest book by Liliana Naydan, associate professor of English at Penn State Abington, was ranked as the No. 1 new release in 21st century literary criticism on Amazon.com.
"The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel" by Thomas Heise, assistant professor of English at Penn State Abington, was published as part of the Columbia University Press Literature Now series, one of the top imprints for the study of contemporary literature.
The WorkRise grant funds the 18-month study "Underemployment in the U.S.: Its Distribution and Effects on Workers," which will be led by Lonnie Golden, professor of economics at Penn State Abington.
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses has recognized two faculty members from across Penn State with the Jack P. Royer Active and Collaborative Learning Award.
Christina Riehman-Murphy, reference and instruction librarian at Penn State Abington Library, has accepted the Sally W. Kalin Early Career Librarianship for Learning Innovations, and Ruth Tillman, cataloging systems and linked data strategist in Cataloging and Metadata Services, has accepted the Sally W. Kalin Early Career Librarianship for Technological Innovations at Penn State.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equity Pedagogy Network increased its reach to four campuses, nine collaborating centers and units and also hosts 130 faculty with about 100 members involved in one of their working groups. Casually referred to as "the Network," the group aims to improve societal outcomes for all students and faculty via improved teaching and learning on equity, bias and diversity.
With goals to enable access to education, engage students, and foster and embrace a diverse world, the Penn State Equity Pedagogy Network works to support and enhance the racial equity work of faculty, staff and administrators across Penn State by developing a community for resource-sharing, collaborative inquiry and reflective practice.
