Chris Watkins and Melissa Pojasek
Baylor English instructors Melissa Pojasek and Chris Watkins were selected to participate in three-week summer seminars by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Ms. Pojasek will attend the "Re-Enchanting Nature," seminar at Carroll College in Helena, Mont. and Yellowstone National Park. According to the Carroll College website, participants will enjoy the beauty of the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone while examining “religious, cultural, literary, fine arts, and cinematic perspectives to explore and evaluate the role of the humanities in our public discourse about the environment.”
Mr. Watkins will attend “Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity” in New York City. According to religiousworldsnyc.org, teachers “will work with leading scholars of religion, meet with diverse religious leaders, visit local houses of worship, explore the religious life of the city, and develop their own religious diversity curriculum projects. This combination of classroom and community-based education will introduce teachers to American religious diversity, help them distinguish between academic and devotional approaches to the study of religion, and give them the pedagogic tools they need to teach about contemporary lived religion.”