Collaboration
Stories of IUSB Blog
Through collaboration with a colleague and international students at IUSB, students in my course on gender and development were able to contribute to a new blog telling diverse stories from the campus.
Madeline Chera
I’m a community-engaged researcher focused on food and sustainable systems. I'm a Philly girl in the Midwest, by way of India. I love 🐩 🥭 🧘♀️ 🥜 🚶♀️ 🌄 😂 ♻.
Collaboration
Inclusive Teaching and International Students
In November 2019, I planned and facilitated a lunch-and-learn workshop for International Education Week at the University Center for Excellence in Teaching at IUSB
Tamil Nadu
Country Chicken, Globalization, and Discourse
In this article, I draw on Foucauldian concepts of knowledge, discourse, and power to explore comparisons Tamils in Madurai provided for valuing country chicken over broiler chicken, and the extent to which these comparisons level critiques against globalization.
Teaching
Quality Matters
In Fall 2019, I completed a one-day certification course on the Quality Matters Rubric for creating and assessing the accessibility, effectiveness, and pedagogical design of online courses. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized certification program for online education.
Collaboration
Learning Communities and Peer Mentoring
Collaborative learning and mutual mentorship are critically important to me.
Teaching
Open Educational Resources
I am committed to participating in efforts to make knowledge collaborative and accessible, and one of the easiest ways to do so is through use of open educational resources (OER), which are free of cost, open license, and usually widely accessible through digital formats.
Outreach
Searching for the Center Podcast
I am often asked to speak on topics related to my research for wide general audiences. In 2019, one of my former students interviewed me with his co-host for their podcast, Searching for the Center.
Outreach
Four-Field Trunk Show
As part of the Indiana University South Bend College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) Campus & Community initiative, I worked with faculty colleagues and student ambassadors in the Anthropology program in AY 2018-2019.
Environment
Environmental Anthropology
In the course, we discussed the principal theories and methods environmental anthropology utilizes and the issues on which it focuses, by looking at case studies from South Asia and the Midwestern US.
Teaching
Supporting Writing
During my undergraduate and graduate studies, I tutored other students as a Writing Tutor. I also led structured writing groups through Indiana University’s Campus Writing Program in AY 2017-2018.
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Program (GTAP)
I completed the requirements for the Associate and Practitioner levels of Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Program (GTAP) and received certificates marking that work.
Presentations
Judging Non-Judgement
> Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism Reference Chera, Madeline. 2019. “Judging Non-Judgement: Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism,” 20th Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, April 2019.