Publications
Publishing Engaged Scholarship
The Lang Center maintains a list of publication outlets—ranging from traditional journals publishing peer-reviewed articles to online magazines and other types of publications designed to reach a broader audience. If you have a particular piece of writing or scholarship that you are looking to publish, contact Katie Price and she can send along a curated list of possibilities. Journals focused primarily on Engaged Scholarship work include:
- Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice
- Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
- Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
- Public: A Journal of Imagining America
Sharing Engaged Scholarship
The Lang Center supports faculty who would like to share their Engaged Scholarship projects and research with audiences both on and off campus. Contact Katie Price if you are interested in pursuing opportunities.
Examples: Swarthmore College Week on the Academic Minute (podcast)
Engaged Scholarship Awards for Faculty
- Ernest A. Lynton Faculty Award in Engaged Scholarship - The Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes pre-tenure and early career faculty who connect teaching, research, and service to community engagement initiatives. The award recognizes engaged scholarship work across disciplines that is rooted in respect, co-creation of projects, and reciprocity.
- Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award - The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes a post-tenure or middle-to-late career faculty who advance engaged scholarship on their campus. Honorees build strong community partnerships, enable their institutions to commit to service-learning and civic engagement, are leaders in community-based research, and foster students' civic learning.
- Periclean Faculty Leadership Program - This program honors faculty leaders who champion engaged scholarship work in their classrooms and community. Faculty Leaders work from a number of disciplines to foster reciprocal learning between students and the community, and promote civil dialogue among all stakeholders. Past Recipients: Barbara Thelamour (2021-2), Lei Ouyang (2020), Mark Wallace (2019), Lynne Steuerle Schofield (2017), Benjamin Berger (2010)
- Engaged Scholars Initiative - The Engaged Scholar Program connects leadership from many campuses to advance engaged scholarship work through course design, scholarly writing, practitioner network development, and other professional development offerings. Participants commit to 18 months of ongoing learning and leadership development. Past Recipients: Maggie Delano (2021), Salvador Rangel (2021), Nina Johnson (2018)
Lang Center Supported Faculty Publications
- Caring across linguistic difference: translanguaging pedagogies for low-overap interactions, Elaine Allard (Educational Studies), Ruby V. Schlaker, Katherine Phillips Mergott
- Political Homophily, Bifurcated Social Reality, and Perceived Legitimacy of the 2020 US Presidential Election Results: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study, John C. Blanchar (Psychology) and Catherine J. Norris (Psychology)
- Frames that Matter: Increasing the Willingess to get the Covid-19 Vaccines, Sean Diament (Political Science), Ayse Kaya (Political Science), and Ellen Magenheim (Economics)
- The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old Age Mortality Estimates, Professor Lynne Steuerle Schofield (Mathematics and Statistics) with Dan A. Black, Yu-Chieh Hsu, Seth G. Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor
- Accumulating Evidence of the Impact of Voter ID Laws: Student Engagement in the Political Process, Professor Kelly S. McConville (Mathematics and Statistics)
- Students And Service Staff Learning And Researching Together On A College Campus, Professor Diane Anderson (Educational Studies)
- Experience and (Civic) Education, Professor Ben Berger (Political Science)
- Community-Based Learning Versus Traditional Courses In Statistics: Who Takes Them And Why, Professor Lynne Schofield ’99 (Mathematics & Statistics)
- “Finding A Lazarus” Ministry With Prisoners And Families: The Way Forward. 44-56. Professor Keith Reeves ’88 (Political Science)
- "A Promise to Support Us:” Undocumented Experiences on a Sanctuary Campus. Professor Elaine C. Allard (Educational Studies) with Jonathan Hamel Sellman, Brandon Torres, Sydnie Schwarz, Freddy Bernardino, and Rebecca Castillo
- Language Policy and Practice in Almost-Bilingual Classrooms, Professor Elaine C. Allard (Educational Studies) with Sarah Apt & Isabel Sacks
- Testing effects of loss framing and checklists: evidence from a field experiment on wellness program participation in Philadelphia. Professor Syon Bhanot (Economics) with Christina A. Roberto, Anjali Chainani, Charles Williamson, and Mehra den Braven
- Poverty, identity and preference for challenge: Evidence from the U.S. and India. Professor Syon Bhanot (Economics) with Sachin Bankera and Aishwarya Deshpande
- Putting social rewards and identity salience to the test: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers in Philadelphia. Professor Syon Bhanot (Economics) with Gordon Kraft-Todd, David Rand, and Erez Yoeli
More faculty publications can be viewed at Swarthmore College Works > Engaged Scholarship.