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February 24, 2023

Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities

By Robin Kietlinski  Robin Kietlinski  is an associate professor of history at La Guardia Community College in Queens, New York. “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to…
February 24, 2023

Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary

By Janny Li In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to India, discusses the many and sometimes surprising ways in which animals are integrated…
February 24, 2023

Water and Women in Urban India

By Janet Armitage Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, was a 2019 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. The…
February 24, 2023

Learning to Teach India through Travel

By Karen Guerrero Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University, was a 2019 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India.…
February 24, 2023

Explaining Northern India’s Oppressive Smog

By Mukila Maitha Mukila Maitha, Associate Professor of Geography at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, was a 2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay,…
February 24, 2023

Twenty Years of Change in India: A Native Daughter’s Reflections

By Shabana Meyering Shabana Meyering, Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Northern Virginia Community College, was a 2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. She was also…
February 24, 2023

Bringing in the New Year in India: How Cars and Chaos Gave Me Hope

By Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez, Instructor of Construction and Environmental Technology at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York, was a 2019-2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty…
February 24, 2023

Addressing Eco-Disparity in India

By Amar Sawhney and Jessica R. Barnes Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building Construction and Interior Design at Miami-Dade College, and Jessica Barnes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography,…
February 24, 2023

Planning for Informal Settlements in India

By Jessica R. Barnes and Amar Sawhney Jessica Barnes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, and Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building…
February 24, 2023

Informal Economies in India

By Brian Turnbull Brian Turnbull, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Instruction with the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida and was a…