Join us for our first Global Cafe of the year by Dr. Blair Rose Zaid titled: The Community Classroom: Engaging Global Connections within a Local Setting.
Talk description:
This talk presents a community classroom approach as a method for introducing students to the global entanglements of local settings. Through illustrating how this approach has been used in Nicaragua, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Michigan, I highlight impact of teaching inside a community on student outcomes as well as community support for academic research.
Biography:
Dr. Blair Rose Zaid holds Ph.D.s, in African American and African Studies and in Anthropology from Michigan State University. Her dissertation research identified the proto-African Diaspora of Early Iron Age Central Africa from roughly 3,000 years ago. She has over 10 years of ethnographic, archaeological, and historic fieldwork and teaching on the African Diaspora. Currently, Dr. Zaid is a lecturer at the University of Michigan and investigates 19th century freedom seekers in south central Michigan.