Molly Taylor-Poleskey |
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My teaching revolves around making connections: between the past and the present, across disciplines and between the classroom and the "real world."
I teach a wide range of topics and I love designing new courses when an opportunity arises for a new partnership or to give my students new experiences. This semester (Spring 2023), for example, I'll be joining Prof. Medha Sarkar's Software Engineering course to work on a new, interactive platform for Hidden Town in 3D, which is a collaborative project with MTSU's Animation and Public History Programs and Old Salem Museum and Gardens. My Digital Tools for Historians graduate class may partner with Dr. Bren Martin's Seminar in Public Programming for Historical Organizations and the Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center.
I think teaching History is about doing, making, and experimenting and my students practice project-based learning. Many of my courses have an MTEngage and/or EXL (experiential learning) designation and have field components with real-world applications.
I teach a wide range of topics and I love designing new courses when an opportunity arises for a new partnership or to give my students new experiences. This semester (Spring 2023), for example, I'll be joining Prof. Medha Sarkar's Software Engineering course to work on a new, interactive platform for Hidden Town in 3D, which is a collaborative project with MTSU's Animation and Public History Programs and Old Salem Museum and Gardens. My Digital Tools for Historians graduate class may partner with Dr. Bren Martin's Seminar in Public Programming for Historical Organizations and the Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center.
I think teaching History is about doing, making, and experimenting and my students practice project-based learning. Many of my courses have an MTEngage and/or EXL (experiential learning) designation and have field components with real-world applications.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Middle Tennessee State University
University of Arkansas
Stanford University
GRADUATE DIGITAL PROJECTS OVERSEEN:
Middle Tennessee State University
- Hist 7995 Digital History Field School: Hidden Town in 3D (Maymester 2018)
- Visit our new website! HiddenTown3D.org
- Visit our new website! HiddenTown3D.org
- Hist 3075: Food and Culture of Renaissance Italy (Summer 2022 Study Abroad course)
- Hist 3090: Science, Religion, and Magic in Early Modern Europe (Fall 2018)
- Reacting to the Past Course
- Hist 6450/7450 Digital Tools for Historians (Spring 2017)
- Hands-on graduate course for both traditional and public history MA and PhD students. Syllabus
- Hist 3870 Digital Public History: Mapping Local Stories
- An upper-division, experiential learning undergraduate course making a Curatescape map and leading a public walking tour.
- Momentous Murfreesboro (Fall 2021) Syllabrochure
- Bygone Nashville (Fall 2017) Syllabus
- An upper-division, experiential learning undergraduate course making a Curatescape map and leading a public walking tour.
- Hist 2010 U.S. History to 1877 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
University of Arkansas
- Crash Course in Digital Humanities for Liberal Arts Graduate Students (January 2022)
- Weeklong workshop co-led with Dr. Andrew Fialka
Stanford University
- Hist 10B/110B Early Modern Europe Survey (Spring 2016)
- Hist 17S Identities of Early Modern Noble Women (Spring 2011)
- "Sources and methods" course designed to coach potential majors in the skills of primary source analysis, critique, writing and revision. Syllabus
GRADUATE DIGITAL PROJECTS OVERSEEN:
- Coming Home: A History of Queer Nightlife in Nashville
- Tennessee State Parks: Non-Personal Interpretation Text Analysis
- Heritage Center of Rutherford County 360 Tour
- Appalachian Land for Free(dom): Wheat, Tennessee
- Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
- Through the Lens of the Kolb Brothers: Photography and Tourism in the Grand Canyon
- Murfreesboro Music
- Murfreesboro Monuments
- Red Clay's Eternal Flame
- Beck Knob Cemetery: Remembering and Recognizing an Integral Part of Chattanooga
- Matt Gardner Homestead Museum: Material Culture of an African American Community in Middle Tennessee
- Bradley Academy Omeka database
- Nashville Brewery Palladio Visualization (unpublished Palladio project)
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