Throughlines

A dynamic pedagogical resource for engaging premodern critical race studies in the classroom.
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Throughlines offers a variety of freely accessible teaching materials to help you incorporate premodern critical race studies into your teaching. Specifically designed for use in higher education, the materials on Throughlines include lectures, pedagogical approaches, exemplar syllabi, classroom discussion models, an annotated bibliography and more.

Throughlines will continue to grow over time. So be sure to check back regularly or join our mailing list to stay in the loop on content related to your research and teaching.

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Our scholars

Throughlines materials are developed by cutting-edge scholars in the fields of premodern studies, in collaboration with the Throughlines team.

Contributors include Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Kim F. Hall, Cord J. Whitaker, Chouki El Hamel, Leslie Alexander, Margo Hendricks, and more.

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Ambereen Dadabhoy

Islam and the West

Guiding students through early modern texts, Ambereen Dadabhoy reveals the entangled relationship between Christian Europe and Muslim culture.

Reading list
Tarren Andrews

Transtemporal medieval studies

Refusing disciplinary silos and thinking beyond periodization allows educators to connect the present realities of student's lives to the distant past.

RaceB4Race Highlight
Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Shakespeare and the police

In his presentation at RaceB4Race in 2020, Little compares the policing of the Black body (Black persons) to intellectual theft that often surrounds Shakespeare and early modern studies.

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