- 2024 CEDER-NRC Teacher Workshop
- East Asia National Resource Center
- Midwest Institute for International / Intercultural Education (MIIIE)
- U-M/UPR Outreach Collaboration
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- 2023 Workshop. The Politics of Care in Puerto Rican Classrooms
- World History Learning Community
- World History & Literature Initiative (WHaLI)
- Resources for Educators
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, discussions about care policies have proliferated in academic circles. Even in colonial contexts such as Puerto Rico, and given the social disasters caused by natural catastrophes (such as hurricanes Irma and María in 2017, the earthquakes in 2020, and Hurricane Fiona in 2022), there has been more attention to state failures and gaps in public provisions. In the 21st century, "The Politics of Care" emerged as a new approach to political and social thought that overcomes the limits of liberal approaches and proposes a rich trans-disciplinary approach that theorizes and practices "care" as a survival strategy in the face of legal, racial, patriarchal, heteronormative, and police violence. Likewise, it critiques the limited access to health services, reproductive rights, job security and the increasingly difficulty of access to housing and land as a result of extractive policies and forced displacement. Through this year’s Area Studies Curriculum Development Program, we intend to address a breadth of topics, from female reproductive health or gender identities to practices of displacement of impoverished populations, through racial or heteronormative violence, as they relate to "care" writ broadly. One of the essential purposes of the workshop is to create a collaborative space for and with the educators of the island with the aim of integrating regional and global concepts, practices, and experiences into their curricular development for the upcoming scholastic year and into the future.
Reference Suggestions:
- The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter (2020)
- The politics of care. By Woodly D, Brown RH, Marin M, Threadcraft S, Harris CP, Syedullah J, Ticktin M. in Contemp Polit Theory. 2021;20(4):890–925.
- Care-Centered Politics by Robert Gottlieb 2022
- The Political Philosphy of Care. Interview between Sara Leonard and Deva Woodly, Dissent Magazine Winter 2022
Program Objectives
Overall: The Annual Area Studies Curriculum Development Program is the cornerstone of the collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico. It is aimed at supporting elementary and secondary teachers, teachers in training, and other educators on the island in the internationalization of their classroom instruction and material.
Goals:
- Expand access to area studies instruction and classroom resources.
- Strengthen institutional and professional ties with K-12 schools for area studies content development.
- Provide greater professional development opportunities for K-12 educators as they relate to area studies.
- Share new and innovative research on area studies content and inclusive pedagogies.
- Foster spaces of dialogue and professional support for the sharing of best practices among K-12 educators as they relate to area studies.
Program Beneficiaries:
- K-12 teachers in Puerto Rico, primarily located in the San Juan metropolitan area.
- Teachers in training at the University of Puerto Rico.
- Advanced graduate students at the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico.
April 12, 2023 (Virtual)
5-6:30 pm: Introductory Session
Politics of Care Theme Presentation (Victoria Langland)
Pedagogical Roadmap (Darin Stockdill, Ileana Quinteros Rivera)
Subtheme Working Groups Meet & Greet
May 3, 3023 – Workshop Day 1; 9 am–4 pm (Rio Piedras Campus)
9-9:30 am: Welcome & Overview (Room A. College of Humanities Building)
9:30-10:45am: Faculty Panel Presentations (Room A. College of Humanities Building)
“Onerous Labor and Intimate Care: Histories of Breastfeeding in Brazil” – Victoria Langland
“Gender violence and the ethics of care: honoring the right to live in peace.” – Elithet Silva Martínez
“Sobre lo que es y lo que no es trabajo en la modernidad/colonialidad” – Mabel Rodríguez Centeno
“Archivística, Memoria y Participación Ciudadana” – Nadjah Ríos Villarini & Dinah Wilson Fraites
“Educación Climática: Retos y posibilidades para atender el calentamiento global” – Federico Cintrón Moscoso
10:45-11 am: Workshop Break
11 am-12:30 pm: Graduate Student Panel (Room A. College of Humanities Building)
“Puerto Rican Public History in Connecticut” – Elena Marie Rosario
“Beyond the biomedical: re-centering care in childbirth” – Moniek van Rheenen
““Baby Bonus” Family Policies in East Asia: Implications for the Politics of Care” – Kelsi Caywood
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-2:45 pm: Pedagogical Framing & Problem-Based Learning – Darin Stockdill & Ileana Quinteros Rivera (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
2:45-3:45 pm: Design Session: Subtheme Breakouts (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
3:45-4 pm: Large Group Reflection & Wrap-up
May 4, 2023 – Workshop Day 2; 9 am-4 pm (Rio Piedras Campus)
9-9:15 am: Welcome & Overview (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
9:15-9:45 am: Text Selection and Analysis – Darin Stockdill & Ileana Quintero Rivera (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building
9:45-10:30 am: Design Session: Subtheme Breakouts (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
10:30-10:45 am: Workshop Break
10:45-11:15 am: Learning Activity Planning – Darin Stockdill & Ileana Quintero Rivera (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
11:15 am-12 pm: Design Session: Subtheme Breakouts (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building
1:30-2:15 pm: Feedback session (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
2:15-2:30 pm: Workshop Break
2:30-3:30 pm: Design Session: Subtheme Breakouts (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
3:30-4 pm: Reflection & Evaluations (CRiiAS, Natural Sciences Department Building)
Elena Marie Rosario, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, University of Michigan
Elena is a public historian from Hartford, Connecticut, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, “Puerto Rican Tobacco Migration, Postwar Settlement, and Community Development in Hartford, Connecticut, 1947-1973,” examines the development of the Puerto Rican community in Connecticut. Her work intervenes in traditional interpretations of Connecticut and American history that ignore the contributions of Puerto Ricans. Rosario’s research interests include labor, education, urban development, social movements, and identity formation. Her work pairs in-depth archival research with community-centered methodologies, such as oral histories and community engagement projects, to foreground the experiences of Puerto Ricans. Rosario works within the community through oral interviews, curriculum development, and publicly engaged projects. In 2022, Rosario was selected as a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and as one of Connecticut Explored’s 20 for 20 Game Changers for her role in innovating Connecticut history. She earned an M.A. in 2019 from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Connecticut College in 2014, where she was selected as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
Nicolas Juárez, Ph.D. Student, School of Social Work, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Nico is a native, diasporic descendent of the Tsotsil Maya and a first-generation Chiapaneco living on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – The Three Fire Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Wyandot Nation. As a doctoral student in the Joint Program for Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, he researches Black and Indigenous environmental movements in the United States and Mexico with a focus on community organizing and sociopolitical theory.
Nadjah Ríos Villarini, Ph.D., College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico
Dr. Ríos Villarini received her doctorate and master’s in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her academic interest is oriented to issues of language and power, language attitudes and language planning in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Currently she works as an associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico, College of General Studies. Vieques manos al arriba! [Vieques hands up!] is her recent short film that explores the musical traditions of calypso and steel drums in the island municipality of Vieques. The documentary is based on ethnographic interviews with musicians, singers, and bandleaders of Calypso, who trace hypotheses about the arrival of this music to Vieques. She has documented carnivals in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Rios oversees the fiscal administration of the award and leadership of the project. Dr. Ríos also contributes to the selection and curation of humanities content.
Dinah M. Wilson Fraites, Librarian, Department of Technical Services, University of Puerto Rico.
Dinah M. Wilson Fraites works as a cataloging librarian in the Library System of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has a M.A. in Comparative Literature (2011), a M.I.S. in Library and Information Science (2018), and is currently a doctoral student in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She serves on the Technical and Editorial Support Board of Acceso. Puerto Rican Journal of Library and Information Science, the open access journal of the Society of Librarians of Puerto Rico. Since 2022, she has worked as the metadata librarian for the project "Preservation and Access of Puerto Rican and Caribbean Special Collections", funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (2022-2023). Her areas of interest include authority work and identity management, metadata for special collections, digital humanities, digital community archives, and the history of libraries and archives in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Kelsi Caywood, Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Kelsi is a sociology PhD student and Population Studies Center trainee in social demography at the University of Michigan. She researches comparative gender inequality in the United States and East Asia. Caywood focuses on the interrelationships of gender equity, population policy, and work-family conflict. Her recent work analyzes the impacts of national work-family policies on gender roles, labor market outcomes, and fertility in postindustrial contexts. She aspires to create the cross-national data needed to better understand gender inequalities. Prior to Caywood’s doctoral studies, she conducted research and policy analysis on women's empowerment and global talent flows in the Asia-Pacific region as a research associate at Stanford University. She holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University, an LLM in China Studies (Law and Society) from Peking University, and an MA in International Policy from Stanford University.
Moniek van Rheenen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Moniek van Rheenen is a seventh-year PhD candidate in linguistic anthropology at the University of Michigan, specializing in comparative Islam across the globe. She received her B.A. in English and Spanish from Cornell University in 2014 and served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, in 2015 and 2016. Her dissertation aims to complicate the narrative about nonliberal Muslim women in Indonesia and argues that they are not passive repositories for male preaching and Islamic knowledge; rather, they are deeply engaged in political and social activism in ways that have resounding effects on Indonesian politics and society, although their labor often goes unseen. Moniek is also trained as a doula and birth worker and has a secondary research project on cross-cultural birthing practices and alternatives to Western biomedical birth, especially among Muslim communities. Both areas of her scholarship seek to change the assumption that Westerners often have of the "oppressed Muslim woman in need of liberation" and turning the focus to Indonesia as the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world.
Victoria Langland, Ph.D. Departments of History, Romance Languages and Literature, and Anthropology.
Dr. Langland holds a joint position in History and Romance Languages and Literatures and is currently serving as the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazil Initiative at the University of Michigan. She specializes in twentieth-century Latin American history, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone, and writes about gender, dictatorship, the uses of memory, student, and other social movements, and, more generally, the intersections of culture and power. She is the author of Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 2nd edition, (Duke University Press, 2019), and Monumentos, Memoriales y Marcas Territoriales (Siglo XXI, 2003). Langland's current research project is a history of breastfeeding in Brazil that looks at how cultural understandings, public policies, formula marketing and other factors have transformed popular beliefs and practices about infant nutrition and women’s bodies over time. Before coming to the University of Michigan, she was on the faculty at the University of California, Davis and at Lafayette College
Federico Cintrón Moscoso, Ph.D, Program Director-El Puente Latino Climate Action Network, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico.
Federico Cintrón Moscoso is an anthropologist, educator, and social justice activist. Currently, he directs the El Puente–Enlace Latino Climate Action program, dedicated to education and promoting actions in defense of the environment. He also offers research and social science courses at the University of Puerto Rico. Also, Cintrón-Moscoso is a co-founder of the collective Profesorxs Autoconvocados en Resistencia Solidaria (PAReS) and JunteGente, where he has served as a spokesperson and program coordinator.
Elithet Silva-Martínez, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Puerto Rico.
Elithet Silva-Martínez has an MSW and PhD in Social Work. In the last 19 years, she has specialized in working with survivors of gender violence in Puerto Rico and the United States. Dr. Silva Martínez is currently an Associate Professor and coordinator of the Master's Program in Social Work at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Puerto Rico and Faculty Affiliate at the Center of Violence Against Women and Children at the School of Social Work at Rutgers. Certified by the National Center for Social Work Trauma Education and Workforce Development and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Her work is inspired by the stories of the women in her life: her grandmothers, her mother and daughters, Lina and Lara.
Mabel Rodríguez Centeno, Ph.D, Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico.
Dr. Rodríguez Centeno is a professor in the Department of Humanities of General Studies of the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. She has a PhD in History from El Colegio de México, with the thesis: “Agrarian landscape and rural society. Land tenure and coffee growing in Córdoba, Veracruz (1870-1940)”. More recently, she has dedicated herself to rethinking progress narratives and questioning productivism. Along these lines, some of her publications are: “(Anotaciones al) devenir vago-cuir como sujeto político (trans)feminista”, in Lissette Rolón Collazo, ed., Actas del VI Coloqio ¿Del otro lao? Perspectivas sobre sexualidades queer. Cabo Rojo: EEE, 2017, p. 167-177; “Aquelarre caníbal en Caribes (porno)tropicales otros: un bosquej(it)o anti-histórico”, in 80grados, March 18, 2016; “Sobre ‘echarpalantismos’ y perezas. Apuntes para mirar las gracias reales de 1815 desde las desgracias fiscales de 2015”, in Revista Umbral, No. 12 (October 2016), pp. 34-53; “Discursos y regulaciones sobre quienes se resisten a ser ‘hombres de bien’: apuntes históricos sobre la vagancia”in Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, ed., Actas del V Coloqio ¿Del otro lao? Perspectivas sobre sexualidades queer. Cabo Rojo: EEE, 2015, p. 119-126; “Claroscuras vaguedades: Apuntes para una historia de la holgazanería en contextos insurgentes y de permanencias coloniales (México y Puerto Rico)” in José Quintero González (dir. congr.), The birth of freedom in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America : Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of AHILA. San Fernando (Spain), September 6-9, 2011 [CD-ROM], 2014, pp. 1505-1513; “Entre insurgencias y perezas: el caso de Puerto Rico frente a los procesos de independencias continentales” in Chronica Nova, University of Granada, Spain (38, 2012, pp. 105-123) and "Las perezas insulares", in 80grados, 18 November 2011 (http://www.80grados.net/2011/11/las-perezas-insulares/)
monét cooper, Ph.D. Student, English and Women’s Studies, Department of Education, University of Michigan
monét cooper is a poet, writer, and doctoral student from Georgia currently studying in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. She uses ethnographic methods, poetics of interiority and aliveness, and Black queer theorizations of selfhood and futurity to learn about the literacies of African American and Latinx trans and queer girls and genderqueer youth in school. She also studies Black queer educators’ conceptualizations of writing as the practice of freedom thinking with Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic”. monét misses her grandmother’s laugh and enjoys day naps, baking cakes, long walks to anywhere, and can't live without J Dilla's "Sunbeams". She co-hosts Dancing on Desks, a podcast about justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist education. She has word work forthcoming in Educational Injustice Among Margins and Centers: Theorizing Critical Futures and Urban Education.
