ANTIOCH COLLEGE Antioch College is a new kind of American college: a groundbreaking and progressive institution and community, dedicated to winning victories for humanity. Antioch students apply their classroom learning in the world at-large, through extended Cooperative Education (Co-op), work placements with national and international organizations. Students have agency in charting their own unique path by owning their education. Grounded in shared humanity and with experiential learning at its very core, Antioch College prepares students for personal responsibility in advancing positive change in our communities and in the world. Founded in 1850, Antioch has long been an agent of disruptive change, having been the only liberal arts college in the country with a required work component for more than 100 years. The Coop program reflects Antioch’s critical pedagogical
insight that separation of classroom learning from the world of work is artificial—a philosophy that has produced Nobel Laureates, Fulbright and Rhodes scholars, and notables in the arts, government, business, and education. The words of Loren Pope, former education editor of The New York Times and author of Colleges That Change Lives, speak to Antioch’s unique capability: “Antioch is in a class by itself. There is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person’s life, or that creates more effective adults. None of the Ivies, big or small, can match Antioch’s ability to produce outstanding thinkers and doers.” Antioch College is located in beautiful Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the heart of the Miami Valley. Learn more at www.antiochcollege.edu and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
COLLOQUIA (to gather in conversation)
The founder of Colloquia at Antioch College, Jennifer Wenker, held that there is something truly beautiful about how an applied liberal arts education cultivates and encourages the cross-pollination of ideas through interconnected ways of seeing across the disciplines. It is this semi-permeable membrane of a liberal arts education generally, and an Antioch College experiential liberal arts education specifically, that cultivates well-read, big picture thinkers who are ready and prepared to make a difference in the world. It is in this spirit that we present COLLOQUIA 2021, the fourth annual Antioch College Senior Capstone showcase. The COLLOQUIA 2021 catalog highlights the accomplishments of our seniors who negotiated their final capstone requirements under the shifting realities of the global COVID-19 pandemic— many of whom experienced displacement from their campus community and loss in their families and home communities.
The COLLOQUIA 2021 catalog highlights the voices of our seniors who chose a college committed to winning victories for humanity, and who graduate into the world in the midst of an unprecedented uprising of awareness and unrest around the racial violence and injustice experienced by black and brown bodies in the United States at the hands of police officers and as experienced in predominantly white institutions. We dedicate COLLOQUIA to these students— students whose work at the College has created better policies, better practices, better ways of understanding the ongoing work that must be done. We dedicate COLLOQUIA to these students, graduates who enter the world as a force in their own right, who will step up to dismantle the scaffolding that supports institutionalized inequities throughout the world just as they have stepped up to rebuild Antioch College. The world is surely a better place on account of their victories.
Welcome to Colloquia 2021 Welcome to Colloquia 2021, the annual presentation and catalog of the capstone work of the Antioch College’s graduating students. A capstone, in the first sense of the word, refers to the top part or coping of a wall made of bricks or stones. The second sense of the word is the more metaphorical and common use, in the instance of an academic program: a crowning finish on what has been accomplished. Both senses apply here, in my opinion, to the diverse and dynamic work, captured so beautifully in this digital catalog. A true high point and completion of something that may stand and perhaps serve as a foundation for something new, something next. I can’t wait to know what that will be. At Antioch College, we ask students to own their education, an act which requires ongoing self-direction and responsibility that is uncommon in higher education. To own their education, Antioch students must take great personal agency in setting their educational purpose, collaborating in the planning and claiming of their learning, pursuing energetically their curiosities and passions, becoming solution-seekers within a complex of difficult choices, interpreting and making meaning, and assessing their efforts and outcomes reflectively and critically.
We ask our students to be honest and imaginative, open and rigorous, active and concerted, consequent and accountable. At Antioch, we believe learning works best when it is participatory, creative, experientially grounded, holistically conceived, and always integrated into an intellectually demanding and balanced program of study and work. Colloquia 2021 is made possible by many at Antioch, not least the exceptional faculty who have worked with dedication and love to support these students. It is nothing if not a testimony to the 171-year old legacy of Antioch College as a place where human enlightenment finds its highest purpose in human freedom and empowerment. The root word for colloquia, colloquy, means “to speak together.” Speaking together (not at the same time, of course) requires us to make ourselves present and alert to listen and see, to ponder and question, and perhaps to exchange new or different perspectives on what we experience. In all cases, we hope speaking together will lead us to explore questions and expand new knowledge and understanding. That is what we celebrate in Colloquia 2021 and why we are exceedingly grateful to everyone and especially our students, who have given us the opportunity to speak, listen, exchange views, and ultimately, discover an even richer world together.
Most warmly, Tom Manley
President Emeritus, Antioch College
2021
Dear Members of the Class of 2021, Congratulations! This Colloquia booklet presents brief descriptions of your senior projects, and helps other readers learn something about you and the members of the faculty who have worked with you during your time at Antioch. You will see that the descriptions of your senior projects illustrate the interdisciplinary, experiential learning vision of Antioch’s Self-Designed Major curriculum. For over fifty years the Senior Project has been a culminating activity for graduating seniors at Antioch. It gives students an opportunity to explore, in depth, a topic of interest to them. For students, senior projects serve as evidence of your mastery of a topic, and can often be used as part of portfolios for employment or for graduate school applications. For Antioch and the academy more broadly, in some cases your senior projects are contributing new knowledge to your field, a core purpose of scholarly work in higher education. The purpose of Colloquia as an event, and of this booklet chronicling your work, is to celebrate your work and your achievements as you graduate and move on to the next chapter in your life. As a historical document, in addition to providing readers with this information, this booklet also provides a glimpse of the community that you worked to build, in and outside of the classroom during your time at Antioch. Thank you so much for your hard work and congratulations again on your accomplishments. Good luck as you embark on the next chapter of your lives.
Sincerely,
Kevin McGruder, M.B.A., Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor of History
OWN YOUR EDUCATION In the College’s self-design major, students own their education by designing their own pathways to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. In their second year, Antioch students enroll in a Design Your Degree course, which helps them articulate their program vision, goals, and course lists. Student degree plans can be focused around a single theme, or be as multi-disciplinary as our courses and our faculty. All Antioch students continue to participate in the College’s signature Co-op program, which includes periods of full-time work, research, or other off-campus experiential opportunities. Students focus their degrees either disciplinarily or interdisciplinary around an area of study and choose the specific courses they will take to meet their individual academic interests and needs. Another hallmark of our curriculum is its emphasis on
the domains of creative and critical praxis in which faculty, staff, and students are already engaged. Beyond Co-op, this means the self-design major curriculum will honor educational experiences through the Glen Helen Ecology Institute; the Antioch Farm; the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom; and 91.3 WYSO, the renowned NPR-affiliate radio station.
DESIGN YOUR OWN DEGREE Why design your own degree?
The answer is simple: there is no better way for the students of today to become the changemakers of tomorrow. Antioch College is a platform where students launch themselves down a path of self-directed study, engaging a core topic through a range of academic disciplines and real-world experiences. Resolving today’s complex social and ecological problems requires adopting perspectives that are as unique as our students’ backgrounds, interests, and aspirations. Through transdisciplinary and self-directed study, Antioch College’s SelfDesigned Major positions students to Win Victories for Humanity in the twenty-first century.
Antioch students are supported by teams of advisors across disciplines and areas as they explore the many ways of knowing, doing, engaging, and creating. Key courses such as Design Your Degree help students to focus their intentions, by creating Degree Plans and Statements of Inquiry that outline the courses, co-ops, experiences, and approaches they will take on their educational journey. As students progress through their time at Antioch, these plans are updated and readjusted, creating a pathway to success that is unique to every Antiochian.
ULTIMATELY, ANTIOCH COLLEGE GRADUATES STUDENTS WHO ARE CAPABLE OF UNDERTAKING AND COMPLETING LONGTERM PROJECTS WHILE MAKING CONNECTIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES AND REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE ANTIOCH EDUCATION SHAPES LIFELONG LEARNERS MOTIVATED BY THE PURSUIT OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AT THE CORE OF OUR COLLEGE’S MISSION. HUMANITY’S FUTURE MAY BE FULL OF UNCERTAINTIES. WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT ANTIOCH GRADUATES WILL BE SHAPING THAT FUTURE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ALL.
CELEBRATING 2021 SENIORS
Chris Chavers
SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDIES & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Academic Advisor: Jennifer Grubbs Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Transgender Law Center, Law Office of Phillip Brigham, and American Friends Service Committee Additional Campus Involvement: Co President of Comcil, BSU founder, President, and Advisor, Board of Trustee member, CSKC program specialist, Student Engagement team bchavers@antiochcollege.edu “A Poet’s Conversation In Black” A Poet’s Conversation in Black, is a poetry project that critically, implicitly, and explicitly discusses the journey of Black identity within the western -colonized society. The poetry project will have different stages of grief, anger, hope, and love that will analyze the impacts of racism in different parts of society and the feelings within myself and Black people. The poetry will read as conversations and reflections of the relationship not only I have had with my Black identity but into similar experiences of Black people in this topic. Each poem is different but all encapsulates Blackness through lived material. This project is a model of activism to radicalize and liberate the lived material of Black people in a world where your race is the extension of your existence but it’s being exiled from the conversation.
Noah Evans
ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE, AND PRACTICABLE SUSTAINABILITY Academic Advisors: Beth Bridgeman & Kim Landsbergen Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Antioch College Farm, Glen Helen, Agraria Land Management Languages: French nevans@antiochcollege.edu Towards a Sustainable Science: Equity and Justice through Citizen Science and Open-Source Data The paradigm of modern scientific research is largely dominated by well-funded universities and private corporations which hide the results of their studies behind paywalls or in expensive journals. Conversely, citizen scientists and individuals with special interests have shown a capability to collect, organize, and analyze data that can be readily utilized by governments or other organizations. The democratization of scientific research would allow both amateurs and aspiring professionals alike to further contribute to the breadth of scientific knowledge by building upon research completed with the benefit of external funding. Furthermore, networks of citizen scientists can more thoroughly and robustly collect data across wide spatial and temporal ranges, an invaluable methodology in the face of a changing climate and continued human interference in ecologies around the world. This paper aims to analyze the philosophical and politico-economic ideologies that undergird modern science, imagine alternatives which instead aim to maximize the wellbeing of individuals, and to develop methods of scientific inquiry that are more sustainable, accessible, and just.
Morgan Hayslip
Conor Jameson
GENETICS AND MICROBIOLOGY Academic Advisor: Scott Millen Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Mills Lawn Elementary and Chroma Technologies Languages: Spanish mhayslip@antiochcollege.edu
WRITING AND PERFORMANCE Academic Advisor: Brooke Bryan Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Buen Dia Family School, Makauwahi Cave Reserve, Dramakinetics cjameson@antiochcollege.edu
The comparison of city water vs. well water a review paper The goal of my senior project is to conduct a study on water treatment on both well water and city water. I want to test water samples for the presence of e.coli and other Coliform bacteria.I want to better understand the concepts of water treatment facilities and to have a better understanding of why some treatments for water are not as great as other processes. The whole goal of the project is to have a better understanding of where our water comes from, how our water is tested/treated and how it is sent back out to the public for further use. I will conduct my project by writing a review paper on all of the information that I found.
!PUFF!/ Bad Attitude: Singing the character, and the ‘Bubble Grunge Vignettes.’ 7 women, 7 worlds, 7 songs “!PUFF!/ Bad Attitude: Singing the character, and the ‘Bubble Grunge Vignettes’’ is a collaborative concept album. !PUFF! blends music and fiction to depict the lives of seven women living in different worlds across time and dimensions through the form of a musical EP and an anthology of flash fiction.Each story has been illustrated and translated into song with support from local artists and instrumentalists. In ‘Shadows’ a woman mourns the chaos of late stage capitalism. Hopeless, she calls forth divinity under the burning sky. In ‘Kings’ a peasant woman barely escapes the terror of a legendary monster. Finding the holy castle in ruin, she comes face to face with the homicidal Jester of the court. ‘Trampoline’ describes a woman haunted by the monotony of life in a psychiatric institution. When the oldest resident:Paul,acquires a trampoline it becomes an allegory for her life. In ‘It’s Bad’ a woman hops a train car after robbing a bank. She gets away, but not without losing a piece of herself.These songs offer glimpses into the tiny, yet grandiose worlds of bizarre women and circumstances. Please, come in.
Ryn McCall
POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE Academic Advisor: Kim Landsbergen Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Heartbeat Learning Gardens, Spikenard Bee Sanctuary Languages: Spanish cmccall@antiochcollege.edu Planting for the Future: The Jacoby Creek Watershed’s Bold Remediation and Restructuring
With agricultural nutrient runoff degrading waterways and contributing to eutrophication, and with sparse state and federal legislation limiting agricultural inputs, the need for private and individual remediation is crucial. The aim of this case study is to unpack the landscape restoration efforts being taken on one particular landscape and translating this work into digestible and easily disseminated practical steps for regional farmers and landowners to implement on their own property. The Jacoby Creek Watershed in Greene County, Ohio has fallen victim to excess nutrient run-off from connected and adjacent monoculture farmland. Through collaboration with local and state non-profits, the landscape of Agraria in Yellow Springs is being transformed and utilized as a test site for nutrient management methods. By restructuring the natural pathways of the creek, riparian buffer strip planting and wetland creation, the goal of The Case Study is to serve as a template for Clark and Greene county farmers with fresh waterway adjacent land. I will be summarizing water quality data as well as landscape use plans in an effort to create a clear deliverable directive for local and state farmers and landowners interested in implementing nutrient remediation methods on their land. My results will show a drop in nutrient (primarily nitrogen, nitrate, and phosphorus) runoff in connected and adjacent waterways through bufferstrip planting in 50-200ft riparian zones.
Sarah Mills
OBSERVING NATURE THROUGH THE VISUAL ARTS Academic Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: John Bryan Community Pottery in Yellow Springs, OH, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts Languages: French smills@antiochcollege.edu The Anthropocene: The Story of Humanity in Nature The past, present and the future. The dark, the grey and the light. An interactive art installation. A discussion of how humans interact with nature. Not just a practitioner in the arts, but in the natural world sciences I ask questions like; How did we get to this human centric point? How can we create a less species dominated reality? I want to provide a space where people think about extinction, and expanding into solution, through the created artistic space. Where one can think about the answers to these large questions and the hard truths. Through my own blending of art and science, I can help provide an image beyond starving polar bears or harmful cascades, and into a brighter, equitable future. This will be a travel through the art I created during my time at Antioch, along with other immersive objects and scientific facts, that can provide to the viewer a new narrative of human life on Earth. This story will begin abrasive, in order to confront our perceptions, and will end on a gentle, hopeful note. Much the way my inquiry of this subject unfolded to me in my science and artistic examinations. The weight of the knowledge begs me to present this information to the public, through my own talents, and to give this as my gift back to Mother Nature.
Vespere Oaks
PHILOSOPHY, HEALTH AND CARE Academic Advisors: Lara Mitias & Cary Campbell Co-op Advisor: Richard Kraince Co-ops: Antioch Kitchen, Home Inc, Wat Idahophoxaiyaraam and Hospice Care soaks@antiochcollege.edu Metaphysical Rebellion The aim of this paper is to trace Camus’ genealogy of the rebel in order to get a better understanding of the rebel. as well as to discuss the nature of metaphysical rebellion itself. Since the rebel is an individual who seeks a prime order, or first principle in regards to values, it is very significant to trace how this discovery is made. In a world dominated by ideas of revolt and the modern history of revolutions, the stories of revolutionary figures and along with zealots, often seeking to foist their true order on others, discussing the nature of the rebel and metaphysical rebellion is important. Metaphysical rebellion shows our modern existential position in the universe, as well as how the passionate devotion for the non-suffering of other beings as individual suffering beings is vital to understanding our prime order, or first principle as a sacred being. The essence of rebellion attempts to explain how they will be embodied within sacred existence inside and around all life around us. Should we follow the path of the rebel, like Camus, our journey of metaphysical rebellion may lead us to freedom, and even to the security of a realized or perfected order in a chaotic, unsympathetic, unfair universe.
Jonas Robin
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEDIA Academic Advisor: Dean Snyder Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Languages: Spanish The Dissemination of Political Information through Media: Surveillance Capitalism as a Case Study My capstone project examines how our political beliefs are informed through mass media and social media. Drawing on the propaganda model advanced by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent, I break down particular cases in which the media builds strategic political consensus that is amenable to capital and state power. The propaganda model describes five political-economic imperatives that shape how information is disseminated through the media. From this lens, the concept of a fair and neutral news media is ultimately a myth. Multinational conglomerates have become the dominant players in news media, as publicly funded or local news and media outlets declined. The dependence of news media on advertising revenue as its core profit source is a particularly important imperative, as sensationalism and consumerism have displaced informative and empowering news coverage. In the digital age, the concept of surveillance capitalism exposes the destructive nature of targeted advertising as personal privacy is sacrificed to obtain (distorted) political news from social media. Ultimately, state and corporate surveillance and the media we consume are interconnected in ways that debase the quality of our political information system.
Amanda Seigel
STORY TELLING AND HEALING: AFRICAN COSMOGENETIC ROOTS OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY, ANCESTRY, MATRIARCHY AND MEMOIR Academic Advisors: Forest Bright, Beth Bridgeman, Kevin McGruder Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: People I’ve Loved studio assistant, Reiki Master Teacher Mentorship Program Languages: Spanish aseigel@antiochcollege.edu|instagram.com/seagull_press Dreams About Water
In what ways does water (through baptism, libations & spiritual baths) play into African myths of creation, cosmologies, and interconnected spiritually-holistic healing modalities? What are the ways in which sacred plant medicine was used by early humans (of implied African descent) to expand their consciousness and therefore make room for religious consciousness? What are methods of emotional release, spiritual ascension and wholeness in terms of African worldviews? African indigenous views of ancestors and time are cyclical, nonlinear and interconnected as opposed to colonized European views of their dead and their stories. I am telling this story, my own memoir, by asking and doing my best to answer all the above questions I’m posing, and accessing the information and support of generations past in order to do so at the crossroads of African mythos and logos. I am creating collages and writings inspired by them, and illustrating those writings as graphic sequenced stories, with arcs that weave in and out of each other, with no clear beginning, middle and end, given that the past is always present because our ancestors are carried with, by, and through us at all times. surveillance and the media we consume are interconnected in ways that debase the quality of our political information system.
Galen Shewmaker
THE PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY Academic Advisor: Teo Espada Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Kimberton Hills and Marcos Pizza Languages: Spanish gshewmaker@antiochcollege.edu The Origins of Achievement Goal Orientations
This article reviews the literature on the determinants of students’ achievement goal orientations, in the context of higher education. Scholars who study achievement goal orientation differentiate between different types of motivation and their consequences. It is generally agreed upon that a students’ achievement goal orientation has significant implications for their emotional state, social life, and academic performance. However, there is a greater diversity of opinion as to what brings about their adoption. The discovery of the origins of achievement goal orientations would provide a grand opportunity to support students’ resilience, enrich their connections, and optimize their academic proficiency. This article will discuss strategies for inducing adaptive achievement goal orientations by examining the various arguments regarding the antecedents of one’s achievement goal orientation, as well as the methodologies and results used to back these arguments.
Quillin Stocker
YOUNG ADULT FICTION IN MANY FORMS Academic Advisors: Forest Bright & Kevin McGruder Co-op Advisor: Richard Kraince Co-ops: Archives Languages: French qstocker@antiochcollege.edu Young Adult Fiction in Many Forms For my senior project I have decided to put together a collection of art, poetry, and flash fiction stories that I have created over the course of my Antioch experience. I chose to select the pieces in this collection because they show a wide range of my artistic skill and they each represent a piece of the person I have become during my time here.
Kensy Michell E. Zelaya Sabillon
GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Academic Advisors: Dean Snyder & Teo Espada Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Mills Lawn School, Refugee and Immigrant Center For Education and Legal Services (RAICES), Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) Languages: Spanish kzelayasabillon@antiochcollege.edu The Migration Crisis: Globalization and the Destabilization of Central America
Central American migration has been a controversial topic in the United States, as migrants are often framed as a threat to national security. These mainstream accounts fail to explore the role of the U.S. itself in spurring the migration crisis. This paper explains how Central America was destabilized as its national economies were restructured through neoliberal policy reforms. How did Central America’s integration into U.S.-led global capitalism set the groundwork for the migration crisis of the 2010s? Central America faced a debt crisis in the 1980s that spurred the integration of the region into globalizing capitalism. Neoliberal policy reforms benefited an emerging Transnational Capitalist Class, but undercut working class living standards, as social welfare programs were rolled back, access to education limited, and employment opportunities diminished. This research adopts a multi-level analytic approach that: 1) examines global capitalism at a structural level; and 2) uses ethnographic interviewing to provide evidence of personal struggles of migrants caused by neoliberal globalization. This analysis is important because it challenges mainstream narratives that the Central American migration crisis is due to national level failures. Additionally, this research unearths the direct impacts of globalization at an individual level.
FACULTY
Catalina Jordan Alvarez, MFA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS
Catalina Jordan Alvarez grew up in rural Tennessee with a Colombian mother and an American father. After majoring in experimental theater at NYU, she moved to Berlin and became involved in feminist, queer and anti-capitalist movements. She studied filmmaking in German at the selforganized film school, filmArche, and later received her Master of Fine Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. Her narratives exploring the cultural and composed movements of bodies across boundaries have screened at 100 festivals and venues, including the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Museum of the Moving Image and Arclight Hollywood. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Flaherty Seminar, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Flux Factory and the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has taught Media Arts at Antioch College since 2018. www.catalinaalvarez.com
Beth Bridgeman, MA, Associate Professor of Cooperative Education, teaches a series of Reskilling and Resilience courses, exploring seedresilience, plant medicine, regenerative agriculture, and commensality. Her pedagogy embraces democratic education and includes peer-to-peer teaching. In her Co-op role, she leads Cooperative Education partnerships in sustainability, environmental science, biomedical science, alternative education, and partnership opportunities in Japan. A recipient of a faculty excellence award from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, she received OHLA faculty funding for her project Reestablishing a Seed Commons Through Oral History: Capturing the Story of Seed and is a recipient of an NEHfunded GLCA Japan travel grant for her research project, “Pedagogies of Nature: Shinto, Spiritual Ecology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”, postponed due to the pandemic. Currently she is content editor and scholar for Grounded Hope, a podcast funded by the Ohio Humanities Council, and was a featured speaker on Seed Sovereignty at the 2021 Organic Association of Kentucky conference.
Forest Bright, MFA, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, makes images that develop into larger social projects. His work has been exhibited at Cothenius Gallery in Berlin, the Beijing American Center, The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, The Dayton Society of Artists, and The Emporium in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Recently his drawing, collaboratively produced with a group of women serving life sentences at Dayton Correctional Institution, has been included as part of nationally traveling exhibition States of Incarceration organized by The New School of Social Research. Forest also works as an illustrator and designer, designing the cover for Flight, a book of flash fiction written by Robin Littell and published by Paper Nautilus, and is currently working on a book with anthropologist Emily Steinmetz, that is an extension of a cover article published in Anthropology News in 2019. @forestbright on Instagram | www. forestmbright.com
Brooke Blackmon Bryan, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art Theory A.B.D., Associate Professor of Writing, Aesthetics and Digital Studies and Dean of Cooperative, Experiential and International Education Brooke is an aesthetic philosopher and oral historian who composes work in narrative, media and textiles. At Antioch, her courses engage the philosophy of experience through phenomenological methods, community inquiry, and writing as public scholarship. A practitioner of critical and digital pedagogies, she supports students in self-design majors at the interstice of philosophy, media, oral history, critical community studies, and contemporary practice. Brooke directs the activities of the Cooperative Education program, the Antioch Works campus jobs program, and Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA). She is a recipient of a faculty excellence award from SOCHE, a post-secondary teaching award from the Oral History Association, and two in-depth reporting awards from the Ohio Newspaper Association. She can often be found interviewing people, chickenkeeping, or making in her textile studios— where students are welcome to join.
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Cary Campbell, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, has a passion for
integrating French-speaking African cultures in his language and culture classes. With a background in linguistics and language pedagogy, Cary is excited to be a part of Antioch’s innovative proficiencybased languages program. Dr. Campbell’s research deals in African nationalism and allegory, and his teaching often brings scholarship and analysis on processes of racial, ethnic, gendered, religious and postcolonial othering into discussion.
Michael Casselli ‘87 MFA, CHAIR
Mila Cooper, M.A., MDiv., DMIN.,
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college and received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Michael returned to Yellow Springs in 2008 to work with NonStop and the reopening of the College in 2011. Michael taught Media Arts before becoming an Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Installation in 2015. Michael’s career in NYC combined his work as an artist, coordinator and performer within the “Downtown” scene, collaborating with artists including Reza Abdoh, Meredith Monk, Lori Carlos and Anne Bogart. His practice scrutinizes the connections between installation, performance, and new media, believing that art is most exhilarating when collisions are valued as an essential part of the process. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently in Berlin at KW Center for Contemporary Art and the Blue House Gallery in Dayton, Ohio. Michael received a Bessie Award in Scenic Design for Elizabeth Streb (1996), an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2013), and a SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award (2016). Michaeldcassellijr.com | @michaelcasselli
her sixth year at Antioch.
Mila has worked in higher education for 30 years, including Director of Community Outreach & Service-Learning, Assistant Dean of Students, and adjunct faculty. She has taught Urban Community Engagement at Antioch as well as courses in the philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence Reconciliation as a Level III trainer. Mila has a Bachelor of Science in Communications, an Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration, a Master of Divinity degree, and a graduate certificate in nonprofit management and leadership. She is currently pursuing the doctor of ministry degree with a focus in community development.
Dr. Mary Ann Davis, M.F.A., Ph.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE
Poet, lyrical essayist, and scholar of erotic power. Two book projects: Sublunary (poetry) and Between the Monstrous and the Mundane: Thinking Erotic Power in the West, 1845-2015 (scholarship). Favorite classes: Queer Reading, Women Write the Erotic, Introduction to Poetry, and Creative Writing. Favorite shoes: red cowboy boots. Awards: 2018 SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award for Service; 2018 MLK, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award
Dr. Téofilo Espada-Brignoni, MA, PhD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY earned an M.A. in Social-Community Psychology in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 2015 at the University of Puerto Rico. He has published articles about Charles Darwin, the Social Psychology of Autobiographies, jazz, and his experience in the aftermath of hurricane María, among other topics. His main research interests are the autobiographies of musicians, the social psychology of boredom, and the history of psychology. Currently, he has several works about psychology and music under review. He enjoys teaching advanced psychology courses in a workshop format that allows students to develop their research projects, like his class in the psychological study of autobiographies (Winter 2019). Espada-Brignoni also plays saxophone with a local band in Yellow Springs and sometimes can be found under a tree, practicing scales and jazz standards. He is looking forward to collaborating with students in a couple of research projects that are currently in their first stages.
Didier
Dr. Jennifer Grubbs, M.A., Ph.D.,
Colombia, and settled in Chicago, IL. Didier earned a MA in Latin American Literature and Culture (2014) from Northeastern Illinois University. Before joining Antioch College, Didier taught both Spanish and literature at the City Colleges of Chicago.
from American University in Washington, D.C., in Anthropology, specializing in Race, Gender, and Social Justice, where her work examined the creative and confrontational ways in which activists co-create identities of resistance within neoliberal capitalism to dismantle ecological and species hierarchies through the spectacle of protest. She holds an M.A. is Communication, and an M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Grubbs has conducted ethnographic work with environmental and animal advocacy movements based in North America, immigration-support communities and those residing in physical and metaphorical borderlands, and with Holocaust survivors residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her main research interests center around intersectional activism, such as racial justice, prison abolition, queer liberation, and animal liberation. She is particularly passionate about taking Antioch students inside of Dayton Correctional Institution through the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program.
Franco, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, immigrated from Cali,
Didier has a passion for sharing his culture and language with others. “I find beauty in diversity, and in the sharing of different languages, cultures, and values. Students who study another language are more tolerant and are better able to appreciate and connect with other people, which is especially important in our world today.”
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, earned her doctorate
Dr.
David Kammler, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS is
interested in a wide variety of activities, disciplines, and modes of inquiry, especially: astronomy and space exploration, biochemistry, chemistry, cooking, gardening, history, philosophy, running, soccer, and teaching. He is quite enamored with the interdisciplinary modes of inquiry found within liberal arts and cooperative education colleges, and has taught classes in chemistry, biomedical science, health services administration, science of cooking, chemistry and art, and fresh water chemistry, all of which included healthy doses of art, astronomy, history, philosophy, and hands-on learning. According to sources that could just possibly be reliable, he continues to have a sense of humor, and still finds writing his own biographical sketches rather odd. Dr. Kammler is a third-generation Eagle Scout; has written, received, and reviewed scientific grants and patents; has received three distinguished teaching awards since his teaching career began in 1992; and is most assuredly a foodie.
Dr. Brian Kot, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, is a comparative vertebrate
zoologist with a dual background in applied engineering and biology.
Brian often develops experimental research technology that involves design and fabrication assistance from motivated undergraduate students. Dr. Kot’s research interests are multidisciplinary, with hypothesis-driven questions often involving vertebrate locomotion performance (e.g., biomechanics and energetics) and sensory capabilities, predator-prey interactions, and carnivore foraging ecology.
Richard
Kraince is ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATION AS WELL AS THE DEAN OF COOPERATIVE, EXPERIENTIAL, AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE.
His research is focused on student activism and the impact of transnational social movements on higher education policy internationally. He conducted field research on Islamic student activism in Indonesia, Malaysia, and southern Thailand as a Foreign Language and Areas Studies grantee, a Fulbright Dissertation Research Program Fellow, and as a Fulbright New Century Scholar. He served previously as Research Professor and Academic Coordinator with the Center for Asian and African Studies at the College of Mexico in Mexico City.
Dr. Kim Landsbergen, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL
BIOLOGY SCIENCE,
AND
is a Certified Senior Ecologist, specializing in invasive plant biology, climate change impacts on forests, soil carbon dynamics, and urban ecosystems. She teaches a range of courses such as: Botany, Intro to Environmental Science, Ecology, Climate Change, Soils, Ecological Agriculture, Ecosystem Ecology, and more. In 2017, Kim was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Southeastern Ohio Council for Higher Education. She is active in developing environmental policy solutions in Ohio, and also collaborates and makes art as socially engaged practice and science communication. Kim holds a courtesy research appointment in the department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, and the STEAM Factory, both at The Ohio State University. She is a STARS Technical Advisor with the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and volunteers as a Tree Commissioner in Upper Arlington, Ohio. She has published more than 25 peerreviewed science articles and received numerous local, state and federal research grants to support projects at Antioch College. kimlandsbergen.com
Robin Littell, MA English, MFA Creative Writing, Assistant Professor of Writing and Composition Robin Littell has been teaching English composition for over eleven years. She is chair of the writing program and a recipient of the SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award for Service. She also teaches creative writing and writes short fiction. She has numerous publications and acknowledgements for her work, including a nomination for the 2021 Best Short Fictions anthology and placing as a semifinalist in the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction contest. Her focus is flash or micro fiction, a literary genre with a vibrant history in which attention to the narrative arc, language, and image is vital because of the limited space of the form. Her protagonists are often women who break convention and challenge contemporary societal expectations, along with those whose stories illuminate the difficult and tenuous nature of romantic and familial relationships. Robin has been the writer in residence at the Dickinson House and Spark Box Studio in Olsene, Belgium and Ontario, Canada, respectively. She is a winner of the 2018 Vella Chapbook contest, which resulted in the publication of her chapbook Flight. Read more at robinlittell.com.
Dr.
Kevin McGruder, VICE FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY. Teaches
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classes on U.S. History. His research interests include Urban History, African American History, and LGBTQ History. . Kevin’s most recent book is Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 (Columbia University Press, 2015). His current book project Philip Payton: Father of Black Harlem will be published by Columbia University Press in 2021.
who specializes in the interface of pathogenic bacteria with the human immune system.
classes in a wide range of philosophies, including comparative philosophy and Asian philosophies, as well as critical thinking and logic.
Dr. McGruder is the Recipient of the SOCHE Excellence Award for Research and the 2016 Antioch College Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the Coretta Scott King Center at Antioch College.
Scott Millen, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, is a biochemist
Scott’s most recent works include developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. Scott teaches courses in biology focusing on the cell and molecular level and mentors sciences students in biomedical research for professional presentation and publication.
Lara Mitias, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, teaches
Dr. Mitias also teaches P4C (Philosophy for Children), a program that gives tools for critical thinking and practice developing pedagogical skills to facilitate communities of inquiry in K-12 classrooms. Recent papers include work on the place of the body in phenomenologies of place, Daoist logic, and time in Buddhist philosophies. She is currently writing a chapter on “Mindfulness and Memory” for an East Asian Buddhist anthology, along with conference papers in Chinese and Japanese philosophies. Dr. Mitias received an NEH grant in 2018 to study Buddhist East Asia.
Toyoko Miwa-Osborne, (三輪豊子), INSTRUCTOR OF JAPANESE, was born in Nagoya, in the central region of Japan. She taught English for four years in Japan. She moved to the United States and received a Masters of Arts in applied linguistics, specializing TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), from American University in Washington, D.C. She has been teaching college-level Japanese language for 15 years. “Humans think and deepen their thoughts in language, and therefore their thoughts are limited within the language they use. Studying a foreign language is one way to expand their minds and thoughts. I feel privileged to work with the students at Antioch College in this sense.”
Kevin Mulhall, LIBRARY DIRECTOR, assists students, staff and faculty to find research information through the resources of Antioch College’s Olive Kettering Library. In his position as director, he oversees the daily operations of the library, coordinates the library spaces, and maintains the print collection and catalog. Additionally, Kevin has music degrees from Wright State University and the Purchase College Conservatory (SUNY). He loves having fun by running the Chess Club, being an advisor to the awesome campus newspaper (The Record), and playing guitar in the all-faculty band, Pringle.
Dr.
Rahul
PROFESSOR
Nair, OF
ASSOCIATE HISTORY, teaches
classes on Mahatma Gandhi, Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation: a Global History, Local and Global Food Issues, World History, and The World Beyond: Cultural Imagination, Exchanges, and History. Rumor has it that Rahul is planning to offer a class on the life of Mao in the future. Rahul is currently working on a book titled The Rise and Decline of India’s Population Problem in the Twentieth Century: Debating Demography. Dr. Nair is the recipient of a SOCHE Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and of the Coretta Scott King Center’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award in 2019.
Amy
Osborne, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND QUANTATATIVE REASONING
Prior to joining Antioch College Amy Osborne was the director for the Institute for Learning Differences at Thomas More College. She has also held appointments at the University of Cincinnati, Southern New Hampshire University, and Pikeville College. Amy has had a variety of teaching experiences working with college students in the areas of mathematics, statistics, and quantitative research methods for the education and social sciences. Presently pursuing a PhD in Psychology, she is interested in cognitive and affective variables and their relationship to learning, particularly college mathematics. Additionally, she has used her passion for teaching to teach students of all ages interested in areas such as glass-blowing and the ecology of pollinators, such as honey bees. At present she is completing a grant cycle to fund Pollination Stations in and around the south-central Ohio region. When not teaching she can be found spending time with her family, cooking, and working in the apiary.
Dr.
Sean Payne, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY,
regularly teaches courses in environmental policy, urban political economy, and American Government. A feature of his teaching is innovative, service-oriented seminars which engage students in campus and local issues and solutions. He has led seminars in developing expanded participatory governance systems at Antioch and in the rebuilding of student space on campus. Sean’s work is inspired by global movements for governance reform and justice and as well as research on civic engagement and participatory governance. In 2017, Sean received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the the Southeastern Ohio Council for Higher Education. Sean’s current research is on community-based strategies for addressing inequalities and rebuilding the commons.
Luisa Bieri Rios, MA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EDUCATION,
OF
COOPERATIVE
joined the faculty of Antioch College in 2015. She teaches courses in Cooperative Education and Performance, as well as Dialogue Across Difference. Luisa’s teaching, artistic engagement and research areas include art as social practice, community action research, culturally immersive, experiential learning, and intersectional and transnational feminisms. As a teaching artist, Luisa aspires towards creating space for embodied and liberatory emergence. Luisa’s contributions towards the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s Global Crossroads grant and an Ohio Arts Council award facilitated a transnational collaboration with Argentine feminist performance troupe, Mujeres de Artes Tomar, and Antioch College students, alumni, staff and faculty in February 2021. Other recent projects include leading a community workshop and exhibit of Pleasure Is The Practice - a daily meditation on joy at Galería Luz in Buenos Aires. In 2018, Luisa performed her original solo piece, “Rites,” in Chicago at the national gathering of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. luisabieri.wixsite.com/home/
Louise
Smith, MSEd, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PERFORMANCE is a
performer, educator, therapist and writer. For 40 years, she has acted, created solos, directed, and collaborated with students, communities, and fellow artists: Meredith Monk, Ann Hamilton, Ping Chong, Julie Taymor, Talking Band, Lizzie Borden, Ann Bogart, and Carlyle Brown. Louise’s solo performance works have been presented at LaMama, Dixon Place, PS 122, St. Mark’s Danspace, and Dance Theater Workshop in NYC; as well as at Actors’ Theater, Louisville, and Illusion Theater, Minneapolis. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Artists’ Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship. She believes art can be transformative.
Dr. Dean Snyder, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, teaches courses in
international relations, the politics of global capitalism, and political ecology. He’s especially interested in the rise of digital powerhouses like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, and the ways in which the industrial food system creates a rift between human beings and the natural world. One of his favorite teaching experiences was collaborating with three Antioch students to design a course on the politics of our communications systems. The course put Antioch students in dialog with media and internet activists and provided them with a platform to launch their own projects to democratize our digital landscape. In 2018, he was honored with the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Snyder’s research has been published in the journal New Political Science and he was the recipient of the New Political Science Dissertation Award in 2016. He also played a role in organizing the American Political Science Association’s 2019 national conference. A native of Bethlehem, PA, Dr. Snyder is an avid Philly sports fan and enjoys running, weight lifting, and playing tennis in his spare time.
Dr. Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY. Book project: On Wine,
Education, and the Law in Plato’s Laws. Philosophy of Eating and Cooking (Hegel and Vietnamese Steamed Buns). Dr. Trelawny-Cassity was awarded a SOCHE Excellence Award for Service. He has been published in Polis and Epoche. He also wants to claim a title as the undisputed campus champion in pingpong and basketball. In collaboration with Antioch Kitchens chefs and the Antioch Farm staff, he taught philosophy on eating and held his classes on the farm in the summer of 2017.
Mujeres de Artes Tomar Instructions for HOLDing Up Premiere during 2021 Antioch College international residency Her Voice Rises. © Gabriela Manzo
ARTS Students in the Arts at Antioch are makers! From foundations to senior projects, they are engaged in creating works in media arts, visual arts (2D, 3D and 4D) and performance which are provocative and innovative. Students also actively engage in making change. They see art as an important social practice that moves the audience to think differently, feel with others, and find new ways of living. Faculty members in the Arts Division are practitioner-scholars, active in their fields. They recognize the complex ways that artistic mediums and discourse converge and complement each other. The lines between disciplines blur as students create multi-media installations, animations made from drawings and sculptures that are performed. In addition to studios and classrooms, the Arts Division takes full advantage of the curricular resources available on campus and off. Students have had prestigious co-op opportunities at Creative Time, Flux Factory and
The Kitchen in NYC; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the San Francisco Mime Troupe, mural arts with 67 Sueños, and Children After School Arts Program in San Francisco; Ken Burns’s documentary studio, Chicago Public Radio, Denver Open Media, Galerie Maeght in Paris and Mujeres de Artes Tomar in Buenos Aires. On the Antioch campus, students are fortunate to have access to WYSO—an NPR affiliate radio station renowned for excellent journalism, original programming and community engagement--giving students myriad opportunities for practical professional experience through the Miller Fellowship program, the Community Voices courses and beyond. Additionally, students interact with regional and national artists within the beautiful Herndon Gallery and the Foundry Theater mainstage and experimental theater spaces. Curriculum lives within these spaces where students are encouraged to put their theoretical investigations and personal practice to work.
HUMANITIES The Humanities Area at Antioch values the diversity of histories and stories, ideas and questions. We engage globally and locally, interrogating the boundaries of traditional canons, seeking to engage traditions beyond divisions of North and South, East and West. We cross borders and examine our boundaries. We believe that the study of History, Literature, and Philosophy opens us to worlds of human experiences and provides us with a better understanding of ourselves and our world, its past and future, and our place within. The Humanities Area seeks to provide students with a solid grounding in historical knowledge, clear writing,critical reading, and reasoned thinking, in order to enable students with the means to do the creative and intellectual work they love. Within the Humanities, students have done independent research-based creative projects and papers on a multitude of topics, including Turkish immigrant communities in Dayton; racial discrimination in housing; Chicana feminist literature; rural trans poetry; Books to Prisons projects and the Dayton Correctional Institute; Marxist philosophy; the thought of Walter Benjamin; magical realism fiction; the history of Rebecca
Pennell and Pennell House at Antioch; and a comparative study of Hannah Arendt, Saul Alinsky, and Aristotle. While the Humanities emphasize texts and contexts, we also seek to conjoin knowledge and action and to connect ideas and experiences. Examples of this include students leading community reading groups at the public library; classes that link the study of the Yoga Sutras to yoga practice at the Wellness Center; activities that integrate the Antioch Farm into the study of philosophy, history, and literature; and participation in the historic 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Humanities students’ co-op experiences--like studying at the Zen Center in Colorado, teaching at the Arthur Morgan School in North Carolina, or serving as a teaching aide, or as a researcher for ESL and immigrant issues in local public schools, are deeply linked to the academic projects that they choose to undertake. And, reciprocally, the coursework that Humanities majors engage with at Antioch makes them articulate, informed, and valuable assets for the organizations that they work for.
SCIENCES Antioch Science programs have a longstanding tradition of excellence. Antioch Science students learn the tools of the trade of the sciences, how to: develop hypothesisdriven questions, make systematic observations, investigate and critique relevant literature, write research project proposals, and complete a wide variety of projects using onand off-campus resources. Our course areas focus on Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Students wishing to pursue graduate school, biomedical programs, and other science-focused jobs may elect to design their major as a Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.) program that incorporates a core of Mathematics courses and a range of intermediate and upper-level courses that align with the course requirement list in their preferred graduate program. Other students may elect to design a less constrained Bachelor of Arts in Science (B.A.) with fewer required courses. There are many creative ways to blend Science into academic programs that reflect unique blends of disciplines, such as: Environmental Political Economy; Environmental Justice; Science Media and Communications; Ecofeminist Literature; ArtScience; and Art Conservation. The Sciences experience at Antioch is strengthened by outstanding co-operative education opportunities that allow
students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to the “real world”, and to bring those co-op experiences back to campus to inform their academic programs. Simply put, wellchosen sciences co-op experiences can accelerate student success in transformative ways. Sciences co-op jobs are diverse and interesting opportunities for student learning and growth, for example: interning at the City of Dayton Water Quality Lab, working at the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs at the US State Department, interning in various doctor’s offices and medical colleges, ecosystem restoration field work in Australia, and working as a veterinary assistant rehabilitating injured animals. Our programs encourage students to connect with their passions through independent work that builds on a strong foundation of courses. Many of our faculty work with students to offer Independent Studies (SCI 299) and Independent Research courses (SCI 297/397), so that students can work to pursue topics in greater depth. We have outstanding assets used by faculty in students for teaching and research, such as Glen Helen Nature Preserve, The Antioch Farm, renewable energy systems (1 MW solar array and geothermal field), and wellsupplied laboratory, field equipment, and computer labs.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Broad or deeply-focused study within the Social Sciences empowers students to understand how human beings navigate a world characterized by rapid technological and environmental change, complex cultural conflicts, increasingly fractured interpersonal relationships, and growing geopolitical rivalries. In the classroom, social science students study key works in a wide range of academic disciplines, including anthropology, communications, geography, international relations, political economy, psychology, and sociology. Students apply this knowledge, in the real world, through experiential learning opportunities and through U.S. and international co-op placements in government, business, and nonprofit settings. In keeping with Antioch’s mission and vision, the social science major prepares students for a life of active citizenship through its commitment to open and democratic dialogue, innovative and empowering pedagogy, and the merger of theory and practice. Left: Students & faculty in the Olive Kettering Library.
Recent Social Science focused co-ops include: The White House, Office of Presidential Correspondence (Washington, D.C.), Casa Juan Diego Immigrant Services (Houston, TX), Paralegal Assistant, Outten and Golden (NYC), Civil Rights paralegal (Chicago), Tea Farm Ethnographer (Wazuka, Japan), Clinical Assistant, Hollywood Detox Center (L.A.), Humanize not Militarize intern, American Friends Service Committee (Chicago), Researcher, GLCA Library of Congress Research Initiative (Washington, D.C.), and Community Development intern, La Isla Foundation (Nicaragua). Through academic study and real-world experiences, students leave Antioch ready to lead their generation in taking on the major challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.
LANGUAGES At Antioch College, language and culture education is about opening up to one’s others, connecting to communities, and experientially developing skills to engage with a variety of global cultures. The Language and Culture Program provides proficiency-based instruction leading to capstone immersion experiences in international coop placements. Students in our program are able to productively navigate a professional environment in another culture, and return to share original fieldspecific research completed in an international setting. Since culture is integrated into instruction, even those who opt for the minimum requirement leave with communication skills, external certificates of proficiency, and with nuanced intercultural awareness to navigate future experiences.
Left: Students & language faculty in on a language & culture field trip.
Language and Culture instruction at Antioch is “open-architecture,” and customizable to the individual interests of students in their self design majors or in pursuit of social justice activism. Students benefit from innovative pedagogical practices, frequent foreign film screenings, taskbased and project-based learning experiences, and connections with broader language communities. We are Antioch’s global citizen engine.
The Tandana Foundation, Ecuador
CO-OP Antioch College’s Cooperative Education (Coop) Program animates a unique liberal arts curriculum that positions students to take action in the world. Not only do Antioch students graduate with an outstanding education, an impressive resume, and compelling stories of co-op adventure in distant locales, they gain entrance to creative networks and discover their unique talents as they explore meaningful professional pathways across the US and abroad. By linking the life of the mind with the practical experience of co-op, students form part of diverse communities, experiment with solution-oriented approaches to contemporary challenges, and mobilize
efforts towards social impact in ways that have earned Antioch students an international reputation as innovative leaders and courageous change-makers. With over 1,275 co-op placements since the College’s independence, the impact of the Co-op Program is clear: Demonstrated ability to help students gain traction in the world and to communicate the impact of their educational achievements as they prepare themselves for purposeful futures beyond Antioch.
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On a campus that boasts no team mascots, no official sports, and no varsity jackets, the infamous “Antioch Radicals” varsity jacket, was ironically created by students and has been ceremoniously passed down from president to president since the incredible re-opening of Antioch College. Other unofficial mascots which have their fans and detractors include Kale, Garlic and a whole slew of random student’s dogs, all of which are named, “Antioch Joe.”
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