About the Chapter:
This chapter focuses on the impact of integrating the 2016-17 KHC-NEH Colloquium , “Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile, and the Refugee,” into a History of Photography course. By aligning the course learning outcomes with one event, and studying materials on war, conflict, and refugees, it aimed to instill in students a sense of empathy, an understanding of the refugee experience, and a desire to act as twenty-first century citizens. To assess the impact and student learning associated with this addition to the curriculum, students wrote pre-/post-reflection papers on their understanding of the global refugee crisis. Students’ responses indicate an increased appreciation for the role images play in our society and an expanded understanding of the complex issues surrounding genocide, displacement, and the refugee experience.
About the Author:
Kathleen Wentrack, Ph.D. is a Professor of Art History at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Wentrack’s recent publications include “1970s Feminist Practice as Heterotopian: The Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst and the Schule für kreativen Feminismus” in All Women Art Spaces in the Long 1970s (Liverpool University Press 2018). Dr. Wentrack is a contributing editor to Art History Teaching Resources and the peer-reviewed journal Art History Pedagogy and Practice.
Art History Teaching Resources
Association of American Colleges & Universities
W. H. Auden,“Refugee Blues”
"Bloom’s Taxonomy for the Digital World”
Frontline, “Children of Syria”
Michelle Goldberg, “If You Want to Live Here, You Need to Live by the Rules Here”
International Center of Photography, “Robert Capa”
George D. Kuh, "High Impact Educational Practices: What they are, who has access to them and why do they matter?"
Li-Young Lee, “Immigrant Blues”
Donald McCullin, “Don McCullin”
MoMA Learning, “Photography as Witness”
James Nachtwey, “Witness: Photography by James Nachtwey”
New York Times, “War Photography”
Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Traveling Onion”
Liz Robins, “11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees”
Beth Saunders, “Twentieth-Century Photography”
This American Life: Episode 592, “‘Are We There Yet?’”
This American Life: Episode 593, “‘Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee’"
Daniel Victor, “Comparing Jewish Refugees of the 1930s with Syrians Today”
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