Faculty Fellowship
Dialogue across Difference (DaD) in collaboration with the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) are expanding opportunities to bring intentional bridge building and dialogue skills to UCLA students and faculty.
The DaD Faculty Fellows Program supports UCLA instructors of record to infuse DaD values of intellectual engagement, curiosity, empathy, active listening, and critical thinking into their course materials and teaching practices.
Administered by the TLC, the program launched in May 2024 with an information session that invited applications. Of the 28 applicants, 16 were invited to join the initial Dialogue Fellows 2024-25 cohort.
This inaugural program officially kicked off in September 2024 with a dialogue workshop, and includes recurring community of practice meetings throughout the 2024-25 academic year. The DaD Faculty Fellows program will conclude with a culminating event in June 2025 to showcase the instructional innovations of the inagural faculty cohort.
Funding for the DaD Faculty Fellows program is provided by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center, the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Foundation, and the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. For questions about the DaD Faculty Fellows Program, contact edp@teaching.ucla.edu.
Fiat Lux Courses
The Dialogue Fellows Fiat Lux offerings, curated by DaD Faculty Fellows, represent an impressive diversity of disciplines and areas of study across both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as thoughtful engagement with DaD values.
Spring 2025 DaD Fiat Lux Courses
Spring 2024 DaD Fiat Lux Courses
- Bridget Callaghan (Psychology): Treat Yo’self: Examining Evidence Behind The Modern Self-Care Movement
- Irene Chen (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering): Writing for Wikipedia: communicating science to a global audience
- Lily Chen-Hafteck (Music): Cultivating Cultural Understanding and Intercultural Competency through Music
- Linda Demer (Medicine): The Autism Spectrum and Neurodiversity
- Vinay Lal (History): The Principles, Politics, and Poetics of Engaged Dialogue
- Susanne Lohmann (Political Science): Radical Disagreement
- Paul Macey (Nursing): Forget the Vaccine, Give Me Ivermectin! Dialogue around Disinformation
- David Myers (History) and Carol Bakhos (Near Eastern): Keywords: How to Talk about Terms of Contention
- Vadim Shneyder (Slavic): Language, Identity, and Power in the Post-Communist World
- Sharon Traweek and Nadine Tanio (Gender Studies): Tasting the difference: Terroir, pleasure, and the politics of food and drink
- Lee Ann Wang (Asian American Studies): Living with Violence Through Feminist Genealogies of Unknowing