The APSA Award for Teaching Innovation honors a wide range of new directions in teaching by recognizing a political scientist who has developed an effective new approach to teaching in the discipline.
Citation from the Award Committee:
Dr. Carranza Ko has developed a major assignment designed to engage students at a Minority Serving Institution and Predominantly Black Institution with political inquiry, quantitative methodology, and knowledge creation. In this assignment, students design a research project inspired by a group or community they identify with. By combining the lived experiences of students, Political Science methods, the use of interactive online teaching software, and student creation of open access resources, Dr. Carranza Ko has demonstrated a commitment to the innovative teaching of Political Science.
Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko is an Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Truth, Justice, Reparations in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea (2021), co-author of Theories of International Relations and the Game of Thrones (2019), and editor of New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women (2023). Her research focuses on transitional justice in Peru and South Korea, historical women’s rights violations in Korea, and Indigenous peoples’ rights in Peru. She is of Indigenous (Quechua-speaking peoples from the Northern Andes of Peru) and Korean descent.
APSA thanks the committee members for their service: Dr. Allen Sens (Chair) of the University of British Columbia, Dr. Jyl J. Josephson of Rutgers University – Newark, and Dr. Rodrigo Nunes of St. Edwards University.