Join us for a workshop on pedagogy led by the 2024 AAR Katie Geneva Cannon Teaching Award Winner, Sheila F. Winborne, as she shares her wisdom and pedagogical strategies.
Dr. Winborne is teaching professor of religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University in Boston. A professor at Northeastern since 2011, she takes an interdisciplinary approach in the studies of religion, philosophy, race, and film. Her research involves analysis of visual culture of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. This includes exploring how visual culture reflects and influences community beliefs and practices, and how artists use forms of spiritual and prophetic language to describe their purposes. In particular, she embraces what she refers to as a pedagogy of “the Other” and the impact of human tragedy on contemporary ways of believing and acting. In this engagement, she utilizes a pluralistic religious studies framework to ensure a diversity of source material and perspectives.