Faculty Scholarships

We at the Nashman Center want to highlight faculty publications focused on community engaged scholarship.  These faculty members have made community engagement a central tenet of their scholarship and public facing writing.  The community focused publications on this page represent a wide range of disciplines and departments at GW.  Take some time to scroll through and explore some recent examples of our affiliated faculty's community engaged scholarship publications.

 

 

2019-2020 Academic Year Projects

PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective with Dr. Sean Cleary   

In this course a public health perspective of the autism experience is explored through service learning and community participatory research methods engaging autistic young adults, their parents, researchers, clinicians and other service providers. The course covers the science, viewpoints, and experience of autism with a focus on young adults transitioning to adulthood.

 

SMPA 3247 Documentary Production with Dr. Imani Cheers

These documentaries were created by students to explore an issue impacting the community.

BISC 1008 Understanding Organisms with Dr. Tara Scully

This course combines community-based activities on ecological issues, agricultural problems related to other organisms, and other environmental issues. Teams design, collaborate, and/or implement an activity with a community partner.

HSSJ 1100 Introduction to Human Service and Social Justice with Dr. Emily Morrison

In this course students learn to gather relevant background about the communities they serve in future HSSJ courses. This includes community assets, history, demographic information, local governance and leadership, and challenges. Teams research DC’s Wards and educate their classmates through presentations and reports.