The Paul Peck Humanities Institute
Welcome
The Paul Peck Humanities Institute (PPHI) at Montgomery College was founded in 1998, as the result of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and through the generosity of Mr. Paul Peck and others.
Featured initiatives of the PPHI include the MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship; PPHI Honors Internships at the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution and US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Digital Storytelling (DS) Internships and Digital Storytelling Community of Practice; Portraits of Life: Holocaust Survivors of Montgomery County traveling exhibit and Holocaust education programs; Bella Mischkinsky Memorial Lecture; and with the Global Humanities Institute (GHI) at Montgomery College, our annual Humanities Days at Montgomery College (HD@MC.) These programs and events impact Montgomery College students, faculty and staff, as well as area residents and ensure that the advancement of the humanities at MC is ongoing, evolutionary, and permanent.
Please join us for a contemplative and joyful exploration of the humanities, across the disciplines!
-- Sara Bachman Ducey, PPHI Director
Our Mission
The Paul Peck Humanities Institute enriches the learning and teaching experiences
of Montgomery College students and faculty, from all disciplines, through the humanities.
Generating various programs, collaborations and national and local partnerships, the
Paul Peck Humanities Institute serves the community by providing growth opportunities
and by demonstrating the relevance of the humanities in all areas of life.
The Smithsonian Faculty Fellowships are the product of a unique collaboration between Montgomery College and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital access—the first of its kind between the Smithsonian Institution and a community college.
Theodora “Dora” Klayman
Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor from Croatia
Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia & the Annual Bella Mischkinsky Memorial Lecture presented
by the Paul Peck Humanities Institute.
2021 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowships (PDF, 
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Montgomery College offers several hundred events each year that bring together members of our college—students, faculty and staff—to make connections between academic learning and the wider world in which they live. These events can offer a structured opportunity for participants to relate one subject matter to another, to transfer skills across disciplines and to reflect on how they are changed by participation in the experience.
We’ve developed an “Integrative Learning Calendar” to help faculty, staff and students
to know about these tremendous learning opportunities. Nearly all of the events are
free of charge and many are open to the general public. As we move forward, events
that appear on this calendar will offer participants guidance about related reading
and resources and each will have a list of “reflective questions” to spur participants
to process the experience more fully. We will also identify those events which qualify
for MC’s Multicultural Diversity Designation.
A special note to help us manage events: please contact the “event contact,” (person
whose email is listed at the end of an event entry) if you wish to bring an entire
class to an event, or if you require disability accommodations.
Why Integrative Learning?
Integrative learning supports student success by enhancing cognitive and metacognitive
skills, engagement, and motivation. Integrative Learning fosters life-long learning
skills, and emphasizes student-centered applied learning. Montgomery College is striving
to offer students more and better opportunities for integrative learning experiences,
both inside and alongside our MC classrooms.
Faculty Support for Integrative Learning
Montgomery College’s Integrative Learning Field Guide for Faculty is on on-going collaboration
between faculty representing the General Studies Program, The General Education Program
and the Integrative Learning Committee at Montgomery College, Maryland. The Field
Guide project provides examples of assignments and discussion prompts to foster and
promote Integrative Learning at Montgomery College. We encourage you to visit The
Montgomery College Integrative Learning Field Guide for Faculty
This guide is licensed under the Creative Commons license. It is a living document
and we welcome additional submissions from MC faculty. Please contact GeneralStudies@montgomerycollege.edu to learn more about contributing your work.
Reflective Questions
As this initiative moves forward we will be providing reflective questions for attendees
to consider during and after their participation in an event. If you would like to
receive a set of generic reflective questions that you can adapt, please email us
at integrativelearning@montgomerycollege.edu
Participating Programs and Representatives
Academic Service Learningnew window
Ms. Nik Sushka
Service Learning Coordinator, Student Life, Rockville
Nik.Sushka@montgomerycollege.edu
Athenaeum Symposium new window
Athenaeum@montgomerycollege.edu
Collegewide Honors new window
Dr. Lucy Laufe
Collegewide Chair for Honors
Lucy.Laufe@montgomerycollege.edu
E-Learning, Innovation and Teaching Excellence (ELITE) new window
Dr. Angela Lanier
Instructional Designer, Rockville
Angela.Lanier@montgomerycollege.edu
Global Humanities Institute
Professor Cinder C. Barnes
Director, Global Humanities Institute
cinder.cooper@montgomerycollege.edu
Institute for Race, Justice and Civic Engagement
Dr. Vincent Intondi
IRJC Director and Associate Professor of History, Takoma Park/Silver Spring
Vincent.Intondi@montgomerycollege.edu
Montgomery College Learning Community Program
Dr. Marcia Bronstein
Learning Communities Coordinator, Professor of English and ELAP, Takoma Park/Silver
Spring
Marcia.Bronstein@montgomerycollege.edu
MC Library new window
Ms. Nancy Nyland
Reference Librarian
Nancy.Nyland@montgomerycollege.edu
Paul Peck Humanities Institute at Montgomery College new window
Ms. Bette Petrides
Coordinator PPHI Honors Internships, Lecturer English, Rockville
Bette.Petrides@montgomerycollege.edu
Peace & Justice Studies
Professor Tulin Levitas
Professor of Philosophy, Rockville
Tulin.Levitas@montgomerycollege.edu
Quantitative Reasoning in the Disciplines
Dr. Jennifer Haydel
Collegewide Coordinator, QRID, and Associate Professor of Political Sciences Germantown
Jennifer.Haydel@montgomerycollege.edu
International Education & Study Abroad Program new window
Dr. Gregory “Greg” Malveaux
Collegewide Coordinator, International Education and Study Abroad Program and
Associate Professor of English, Rockville
Gregory.Malveaux@montgomerycollege.edu
Women’s and Gender Studies Programnew window
Professor Genevieve Carminati
Collegewide Coordinator for Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of English, Rockville
Genevieve.Carminati@montgomerycollege.edu
Writing in the Disciplinesnew window
Professor Stephen “Chip” Gladson
Collegewide Chair for Writing in the Disciplines and Associate Professor of English,
Germantown Stephen.Gladson@montgomerycollege.edu
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