Jamie Wraight came prepared to teach this semester at UM-Dearborn.
His renewed vigor stems from a recent faculty seminar he attended at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
“I’ve come back really renewed and refreshed,” said Wraight, curator of the University’s Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
Wraight, who also teaches history, recently returned from the ninth-annual 2012 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar. He was among select company, as only about 20 faculty members throughout North America were chosen to attend the weeklong seminar.
There, Wraight learned about spatial geography and how it relates to the Holocaust. For his final project at the seminar, Wraight created a spatial narrative to reconstruct what life was like at some of the internment camps.
“It really broadened my horizon for my own research,” said Wraight, who also appreciated the interaction with fellow faculty members. “We had a lot of great philosophical discussions.”
Wraight this semester is teaching a course on the history of modern Britain, and he plans to implement what he learned at the seminar in his class.
“I’m really excited to bring some of these things I’ve learned back to the classroom,” said Wraight, who also expects his experience will benefit the University’s Holocaust archive. “The maps I’ve made for the archives have been pretty basic, but now I’m pretty excited to try some new things out.”
