Columbia Associate Professor Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Innovative Teaching
Erin McCarthy, associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, has been awarded a 2025–2026 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Fellowship from the HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is a unique electronic resource that preserves and shares firsthand accounts of African American life, history, and culture. The fellowship supports faculty who integrate this rich archive into their curriculum to enhance student learning and engagement. McCarthy is one of up to eight educators nationwide selected for the award.
“This fellowship allows me to give Columbia students access to powerful, firsthand accounts of African American history and culture,” McCarthy says. “It deepens their understanding of the past while encouraging them to think critically about the present.”
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