A competitive program, the fellowships support assistant professors to work on “reflective teaching using insights from evidence-based teaching research and exposure to innovative teaching methods.” Details on the program are available here.
Following Brown and Michney’s awards, and also the announcement of HSOC Professor Doug Flamming’s 2020 Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellowship, School Chair Eric Schatzberg said, “I continue to be impressed with HSOC faculty’s dedication to the teaching at the highest level.”
Kate Pride Brown is a sociologist whose research focuses upon power relationships and their impact on the natural world. Brown has previously been recognized for teaching with a 2020 CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
Among other honors, she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. Currently, she is examining financialization and the impact this change is having upon post-carbon energy development projects.
Michney focuses on urban history, digital history, African American history, and the history of race and ethnicity. His current research interests include black building tradesmen and the extent of African American access to New Deal mortgage supports. In the Fall of 2019, Michney won an award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Historical Records for the project from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. Michney has thrice taught a Serve-Learn-Sustain-affiliated course entitled “Semester in the City: Engaging Westside Communities,” which involved partnering with organizations like the Historic Westside Cultural Arts Council, Emerald Corridor Foundation, and Grove Park Foundation.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Pride Brown and Michney!
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