Interdisciplinary Teaching Initiatives

The Office of the Provost launched the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Initiatives (ITI) Program in 2019. The program is designed to encourage and support faculty interested in creating new courses, or redesigning existing ones, that cut across the boundaries of departments and schools. It aims to spur faculty collaboration across disciplines and advance innovative interdisciplinary education and inquiry. The ITI program awards grants, up to $20,000, to teams of faculty members from different departments or schools to collaborate on the development and teaching of undergraduate or graduate courses.

Spring 2023 Interdisciplinary Teaching Awardees

Afro-Francospheres: Working Group for Research & Curriculum Development between the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies (Morningside) and Reid Hall (Paris)

 

Farah Jasmine Griffin​

William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

 

A. Véronique Charles

Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Lecturer

 

Thomas Dodman

Associate Professor of French

The Pedagogy of Listening: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Lab

 

Amy Starecheski​

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology

 

Liza Zapol

Lecturer in Sociology

 

Sayantani DasGupta

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Narrative Medicine

 

Ovita Williams

Lecturer in Discipline of Social Work

 

Lauren Taylor

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Climate and Sustainability Co-Teaching at Barnard

 

 

 

Sandra Goldmark​

Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning

 

Laurie Postlewate

Senior Lecturer in French

 

Pam Cobrin

Senior Lecturer in English 

 

Melissa Wright

Executive Director, Center for Engaged Pedagogy 

Spring 2022 Interdisciplinary Teaching Awardees

Developing an Upstander Curricular Thread throughout the Medical School Curriculum

 

Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

 

Monica Lypson

Rolf H. Scholdager Professor of Medicine
Vice Dean for Education

Building Foundations for Global Leadership

 

David Austell

Associate Provost
Executive Director of ISSO

Expanding Access to Foundations for Research Computing

 

 

 

Jonathan Cain

Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning

 

Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen

Head of Research Data Services in the Columbia University Libraries

 

Jeremiah Mercurio

Head of Humanities and History in the Columbia University Libraries

The First Collaborative Patient Encounter: Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, Becoming a Team

 

Ellen M. Fahey

Assistant Professor of Nursing
College of Nursing
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

 

Letty Moss-Salentijn

Zagarelli Professor of Dental Medicine
College of Dental Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Creating Teaching and Learning Content at Reid Hall, Paris

 

Mark Mazower

Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies
Department of History,
College of Arts & Sciences
Director, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Re-design of Healthcare Management, Design, and Strategy

 

Taylor Sewell

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

 

Carri Chan

John A. Howard Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

 

Peter Tollman

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

Spring 2020 Interdisciplinary Teaching Awardees

Interdisciplinary Weight Management Education to Address Weight Bias Across Health Professions: Toward Improved Health Care for People with Obesity

Sharon Akabas

Associate Professor of Nutrition (in Pediatrics and in the Institute of Human Nutrition)
Associate Director, Education Initiatives in the Institute of Human Nutrition
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

​Laurel Abbruzzese

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Physical Therapy)
Director, Westside Dance Physical Therapy Performing Arts Fellowship
Director, Programs in Physical Therapy
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

​Sally Aboelela

Assistant Professor of Nursing
Director, Online Prerequisites for Entry to Nursing (OPEN) Program
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Mathematics and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Innovation

Michael Harris

Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

​Gayatri Spivak

University Professor in the Humanities
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Spring 2019 Interdisciplinary Teaching Awardees

Craft, Literature, and Data: Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Analyses of Technical Texts

Pamela Smith

Seth Low Professor of History
Department of History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, Center for Science and Society
Affiliate, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

​Dennis Tenen

Assistant Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Affiliate, Data Science Institute; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Graduate Symposium in Medical Humanities


Arden Hegele

Lecturer
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities


Rita Charon

Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics and of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics
Director, Program in Narrative Medicine
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Difference; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Menstruation, Gender and Rights: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Addressing Complex Questions


Inga Winkler

Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Difference

Lauren Houghton

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Difference


Noémie Elhadad

Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Affiliate, Data Science Institute; Department of Computer Science, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Center for the Study of Social Difference


Anja Tolonen

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Barnard College
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Difference; Center for Development Economics and Policy; Barnard Center for Research on Women