Stacey Floyd-Thomas

Stacey Floyd-Thomas joined the faculty of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 1997. Since then, she has been appointed coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Interdisciplinary Task Force. She has transformed a number of courses and helped to put in place new degree options in Leadership and Social Change, Global Studies, and Creative Processes. She has received CEUT summer faculty and globalizing initiatives grants and an ASPIRES grant, under which she has collaborated to establish an Interdisciplinary Study Abroad opportunity at the University of Cheik Anta Diop in Senegal. Nominator Laura Gillman says that Dr. Floyd-Thomas's teaching "generates dreams and possibilities in the souls of her students." Teaching courses in Religious Studies, Black Studies, Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies, she finds ethics and social justice to be points of cohesion in all of her courses. In addition to a wide variety of written texts, she uses service learning, internships, and field study as opportunities for students to implement their theoretical knowledge in more active contexts.