Sherry Giles Selected for 2009-10 CPPS Faculty Fellowship
Sherry Giles, an associate professor of justice and policy studies, has been selected for the 2009-10 Faculty Fellowship in the Center for Principled Problem Solving. She succeeds Assistant Professor of Political Science Kyle Dell, who was the inaugural faculty fellow.
Giles, who is also coordinator of the community and justice studies major, teaches courses in community problem solving, participatory action research and group dynamics, and her primary research interests are the group dynamics of social change initiatives and the impact of field-based pedagogy on student learning.
Giles' faculty fellowship will focus on the significance of Guilford's core values of community and justice for principled problem solving and engaged learning in general. She will also draw on her fellowship research in these areas to enhance the community and justice studies curriculum.
She holds the doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and a B.A. from the University of Texas – Austin, and is a trained community organizer.
The Center for Principled Solving is dedicated to promoting engaged learning, teaching and scholarship motivated and shaped by Guilford’s core values of community, diversity, equality, excellence, integrity, justice and stewardship. The faculty fellowship is currently funded by the college and offers faculty members the opportunity to undertake an extended PPS project and to assume a leadership role in the life of the center.
Sept. 15, 2009