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Sarah Whitwell

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Sarah Whitwell

Educational Developer

Faculty of Humanities

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Teaches 6 graduate courses, most recently in 2022.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.

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Contact

whitwese@mcmaster.ca

Research

Research areas, by share of publications

Race, History, and American SocietySocial Sciences

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14 publications.

Violence and Resistance in African American History

Whitwell S

First author

Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces: Using Relational Databases and Data Visualizations To Advance the Study of Racialized Violence in the Late Antebellum and Postemancipation South

Whitwell S

2025First author

An Exploration of Gift-Giving and Honoraria Practices to Support Community-Engaged Learning at Postsecondary Institutions

Whitwell S, Montague A

2025First author

An Exploration of Gift-Giving and Honoraria Practices to Support Community-Engaged Learning at Postsecondary Institutions

Whitwell S, Montague A

2025First author

An Exploration of Gift-Giving and Honoraria Practices to Support Experiential Learning at Postsecondary Institutions

Whitwell S, Montague A

2024First author

Pedagogy of Privacy: Universal Design for Learning & Disclosures of Disability

Whitwell S, Clarke S

2023First author

DOI: 10.56638/mtopb00123

Structural Barriers to Healthcare, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Racialized Communities

Whitwell S

2022First author

Advancing Interdisciplinary Data Science Training for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Zeffiro A, Brodeur J, Whitwell S, Van A, Dion M, Holtz-Schramek E, Litt V

2022

"No'm I aint tellin' no lies. It de gospel truf': Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection

Whitwell S

2022First author

Creative Research and Building Feminist Data

Zeffiro A, Whitwell S

2021Senior author

Courses taught

Essential Skills in Teaching and Learning (I)
EDUCATN 600 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Peer-Evaluated Teaching Experience
EDUCATN 650 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Essential Skills in Teaching and Learning (II)
EDUCATN 700 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Principles and Practices of University Teaching
EDUCATN 750 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Principles and Practices of University Teaching
EDUCATN 751 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Self-Directed Study
EDUCATN 760 · last taught 2022
Graduate
Gender, Feminism and Social Justice
GENDRST 1AA3 · last taught 2026
Undergraduate
Digital Literacy for the Humanities
HUMAN 1DL3 · last taught 2026
Undergraduate
Experiential Learning Opportunities
INSPIRE 3EL3 · last taught 2026
Undergraduate
Nation and Genocide in the Modern World
HISTORY 4G03 · last taught 2025
Undergraduate

Roles and appointments

Educational Developer, Office of Community Engagement, McMaster University
Experiential Programming and Outreach Manager, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University (2022 - 2024)

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Andrea Zeffiro

Communication Studies & Media Arts

2 shared papers, latest 2022

Jay Brodeur

Interdisciplinary Science

1 shared papers, latest 2022