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色花堂app’s Professor Edward Kammerer has been named the inaugural Inclusive Classroom Pedagogy Fellow by the American Political Science Association (APSA), one of five new fellowships launched this year to elevate excellence in teaching across the discipline.

“The fellowships are part of a new effort to focus on teaching faculty how to be better teachers,” Kammerer said, emphasizing the program’s particular benefit for early-career faculty. Each of the five fellows will offer a short course at APSA’s Annual Conference and develop asynchronous online modules for instructors nationwide.

Kammerer’s selection reflects a broader movement in political science to create classrooms that are accessible, student-centered, and reflective of a wide range of voices and experiences.

“I think it is imperative that we focus on making our classrooms inclusive across all dimensions,” Kammerer said, “especially as efforts to broaden representation in education face growing national scrutiny. Helping faculty design their courses intentionally with an eye toward creating welcoming, accessible, and inclusive classrooms is so important and I'm thrilled that APSA has given me the opportunity to work on this.”

Inclusive pedagogy, he explained, means designing courses so that all students can engage and succeed from the start. “Making sure to include diverse topics and scholars, particularly women, scholars of color, and LGBTQ scholars, shows the breadth of the work being done in political science,” he said.

Through the fellowship, Kammerer aims to amplify best practices both nationally and on ISU’s campus. “I hope that my work with this fellowship will bring attention to the needs of diverse learners and help make political science education a welcoming place for all our students.” He plans to host a teaching workshop at ISU and continue integrating inclusive strategies into the department’s graduate seminar on college instruction.

“For me, I am most excited to be working with a group of amazing, committed teachers to develop this new program for the discipline,” Kammerer said. “The faculty who are involved in the teaching and learning initiatives at APSA are among the best teachers. I am really excited to work closely with them while creating materials that will help future educators.”

The fellowship builds on Kammerer’s ongoing work to make political science more inclusive and supportive of underrepresented communities. 

“A lot of my work with APSA has been focused on making political science more welcoming and accepting of LGBTQ scholars and scholarship,” he said. “Similarly, my work at ISU with LGBT History Month every October is designed to demonstrate to our students that ISU can be a welcoming place for LGBTQ students. All of this is related to inclusive pedagogy.”