Edward Ayers' Teaching
In addition to his administrative responsibilities and scholarly pursuits, Edward Ayers also remains active as a teacher. For his outstanding work in the classroom, Ayers was named the 2003 National Professor of the Year for Research and Doctoral Universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Support and Advancement of Education (CASE). He also received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in 1991 and was named the 2002 recipient of the James Harvey Robinson Prize for Outstanding Aid to Teaching History by the American Historical Association.
Spring 2012
Freeing Richmond
Ed Ayers and Scott Nesbit (History, Geography, Digital Scholarship Lab)
This course will explore the ways that people have pictured--and might picture--the patterns, processes, and events of U.S. history. We will do so by focusing on one specific process and place, emancipation in Richmond, and moving outward from there to think about how an attention to space and scale affects our representation of the past. Working with the Digital Scholarship Lab in Boatwright Library, students will explore new strategies for interpreting American history.
Spring 2011
Mapping American History (CRN: 23071)
Ed Ayers and Scott Nesbit (History, Geography, Digital Scholarship Lab)
This course will explore the ways that people have pictured—and might picture—the patterns, processes, and events of U.S. history, with particular attention to Richmond and its surrounding areas. By studying maps, histories, atlases, travel accounts, fiction, and archival sources, students will consider how these spaces have been represented over the last four hundred years. Working with the Digital Scholarship Lab and community organizations, students will explore new strategies for interpreting the American past.