Faculty Programs

The William L. Duren '26 Professorship Program

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Deadline to apply: Friday, March 2, 2012

Overview
The William L. Duren '26 Professorship Program was established and endowed with a generous gift from Professor William L. Duren '26, M.A. '28, Ph.D., LL.D. honoris causa '59, professor emeritus of mathematics and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Each year, up to four tenured or tenure-track members of the faculty in the liberal arts and sciences serve as Duren Professors. Duren Professors enjoy an especially close relationship to the Newcomb-Tulane College during their tenure in the program. They are provided with additional resources that permit them to adopt distinctive pedagogies (team-teaching, use of auxiliary materials or electronic information technologies, and others) and to arrange for and facilitate distinctive kinds of meaningful interactions with students enrolled in the courses they teach as Duren Professors.

Duren Professors 2011-2012

Professor Scott M. Grayson, Chemistry: “Chem 2420: Organic Chemistry II"
Professor Grayson asserts that "organic chemistry has long been considered one of the most 'feared' courses on college campuses," but does not have to be. To combat this issue and make students feel more "actively engaged in the learning process," his Duren course will reinforce a "reactivity-based" approach to teaching organic chemistry through the incorporation of in-class demonstrations, descriptions of real world applications, and internationally recognized chemists as guest spea kers.

Professor Felicia McCarren, "Morocco in Film and Literature"
Focusing on representations of Morocco’s African desert, Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, and Imperial cities with French urban planning, the course will consider case histories of relations between North Africa and Europe, migration and exile, Islam in “the West,” Jewish and Berber minority identities, and circulation and dislocation in global and local cultures.   In the literature of these locations and a cinema marked by dislocation, from French colonial cinema to the new media inspiring the Arab Spring, the course will show how Morocco has been represented (from the outside) and how Moroccans are representing themselves now, both within the royaume and without. 

Recent Duren Courses