What is CLIP?
The Collaborative Learning and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (CLIP) Fellows Program
CHID recognizes the vital role that graduate student instructors and part‐time faculty play in the creation and maintenance of the vibrant learning community that is CHID. The CHID CLIP Fellows Program is designed to support their participation in innovative, collaborative teaching and research that incorporates faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in a diverse learning community organized around a central theme. In addition to fostering collaboration across disciplines, this award provides structural and monetary support for research and teaching as well as professional development.
Past Series:
- 2023-24: Dreams and Nightmare: Shapes and Shadows in Theory
- 2022-23: Nature, Memory, and Belonging
- 2021-22: Abolition & Abundance as Method
- 2020-21: Sensorial Investigations and Praxes
- 2019-20: Indigeneity, Diasporas, and Empire
- 2018-19: Critical Justice Education
- 2017-18: Critical Approaches to Race and Equity
- 2015 - 2017: Food, Environmental, and Multispecies Justice
2024-2025: Internal and External Journeys: Journeys as Migration
Kunsang Choden and Sarah Nguyen were selected as our 2024-2025 CLIP Fellows. This series, “Internal
and External Journeys: Journeys as Migration,” explores the internal and external experiences of journeys
as migration among diasporas in the face of imperialism, climate change, geopolitical wars, and
individual lived experiences overstimulated by digital technology. Drawing from various fields, including
immigrant and refugee studies, anthropology of grief and desires, Buddhist philosophy, Himalayan
studies, policy studies, and communications, these courses will focus on the experiences of migrants in
journey making. To provide students with theories, methodologies, and frameworks for understanding the
transnational nature of journey making, they will engage in mixed methodologies such as creative art,
storytelling, case studies, and trauma-informed methods to explore topics such as the science of
adaptation, embodiment, nostalgia, grief, desires, and dreams to contemplate journeys from diverse
perspectives. Based on the political economies of analog and digital communications, encapsulating
connectivity, access, and agency, students will engage in immersive and contemplative living by
exploring the ethics of care exercised in internal and external journeys. Choden's work on Tibetan
Himalayan communities and network infrastructure studies, particularly using autoethnography,
indigenous knowledge, contemplative/immersive practices, and participatory research, brings in both
personal experiences of migration from a young age and scholarly understanding of transnational
migration. This complements Nguyễn's research on refugee studies, American Ethnic studies, and mis-
/disinformation, in efforts to acknowledge the complex interplay of intergenerational information sharing
due to forced and chosen migrations. Through a scholarly knowledge-based approach, this course series
will offer non-linear knowledge and wisdom exchange with perspectives from graduates, faculty, and
community members who approach learning and pedagogy with an open and empathetic dialogue.