PhD Candidate. MA (2003, 2000) University of Maryland.
Advanced to candidacy in June, 2009, Ms. Staking is writing a dissertation exploring the use of active learning partnerships in the humanities classroom. The recipient of a University award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant (2004), and of a Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) grant for the preparation of curricular materials engaging diversity (2005), Ms. Staking teaches courses on women’s health, gender and sexuality, and women in visual culture. She participated in a second CTE grant to develop a resource website for faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities that would support their teaching with images and facilitate student acquisition of visual literacy skills (2006). With a Ford Foundation grant to develop web-based pedagogies in the support of transnational teaching collaborations, Ms. Staking worked with colleagues in Africa, Israel, and Jamaica to design and teach an online course bringing students together from all four sites in a cross-institutional, transnational exploration of women’s health (2007).
Research Interests:
Technologies of visuality
Feminist art and visual culture
Dialogic teaching in higher education
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Instructional uses of new media technologies
Feminist pedagogics and transactional learning processes
Transnational learning communities and collaborative web-based teaching partnerships
Dissertation Title:
Reading Student Narratives: Exploring Visual Culture, Engaging Feminist Frameworks, Enacting Transactional Pedagogies