Teaching
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
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
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
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
I completed the requirements for the Associate and Practitioner levels of Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Program (GTAP) and received certificates marking that work.
Presentations
> 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.
Courses
Food and Culture offers students a way to explore in-depth an area of anthropology that is growing in popularity but has been a part of the field since its inception.
Teaching
More than just a job, teaching is a vocation and is central to who I am. I have been fortunate to receive opportunities to grow as an educator and recognition for effective teaching in the past.
Anthropology
Equivalent in many ways to Culture and Society, this course was the introductory level offering for the cultural anthropology sub-field at the main campus (Rose Hill) of Fordham University in Fall 2015.
Food Studies
The course focused on the topic of agricultural biodiversity conservation, and so was related to my focus areas of food and the environment.
Environment
In Fall 2011, I served as a teaching assistant/grader in this course, which was focused on foundations of social science through the lens of environmental sustainability and challenges to it.