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In addition to his freshman seminar, Cultural Perspectives of U.S. Hispanics, Professor Arries teaches elementary and intermediate Spanish; Cultural Perspectives: The U.S. and the Spanish-Speaking World: Sound, Meaning and Identify, Spanish Text Translation, a graduate seminar for foreign language teachers; and a practicum on interpretation and translations in the health professions. Professor Arries holds a University Chair for Teaching Excellence and has received a Pew National Fellowship for Carnegie Scholars. He has published extensively in the field of service-learning and Hispanic studies as well as taught Spanish and worked effectively with diverse student populations.
Joanne Braxton, Cummings Professor of English
In 1986 Braxton received the college’s Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award and, in 1992, the SCHEV Outstanding Virginia Educator Award. In December 2003 Braxton delivered a paper recounting some of her struggles at a Modern Language Association meeting entitled “Teaching the Poetry of Langston Hughes on the Historically White Campus: My First Quarter Century.”
Monica D. Griffin, Sharpe Community Partnership Program Director
Monica D. Griffin received her BA in English and sociology from the College of William and Mary (’88) and her MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia. Monica taught in the college’s Department of Sociology for 6 years (1995–2001) as an assistant professor, specializing in culture studies, theory, and race–class–gender inequality. She spent the last year coordinating a health program for the Hampton and Peninsula health districts and now returns to the College of William and Mary as the director of the Sharpe Community Partnership Program.