Research

Interests

Science, Religion, and Sexuality, Feminist Science Studies and Epistemology, Atheism and Secularism, Complexity Theory, Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

Research Bio

Publications

Akiyama, Yasushi and Sharon Woodill. “A Survey on How Post-Secondary Courses in Interdisciplinary Studies Are Taught,” The International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, 13(2): 2022.

Akiyama, Yasushi and Sharon Woodill. “What Interdisciplinarians Teach: Syllabi Analysis of Post-Secondary Courses in Interdisciplinary Studies”. In: Proceedings of The 12th Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2022). June 2022.

Woodill, Sharon. “The Epistemology of Complexity and ‘Doing’ Interdisciplinarity.” Interface: An International Interdisciplinary Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 2.

Woodill, Sharon and Yasushi Akiyama. “Cultivating The Cognitive-Toolkit Online: Emerging Digital Technologies for Interdisciplinary Studies.” International Conference on Education and E-Learning 2021 Conference Proceedings. (2021): 21-27.

Woodill, Sharon. “Defining Interdisciplinary Studies,” Faculty Focus. 19, no. 2 (2020): 25-25.

Woodill, Sharon and Yasushi Akiyama. “Integrating User-Centred Design Approaches for a Course Design Framework for Interdisciplinary Studies Teaching and Learning.” Journal of Teaching and Learning 14, no. 1 (2020): 93-107.

Woodill, Sharon, Richard Plate, and Nathan Jagoda. 2019. “How Interdisciplinarians Work”. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education 8 (2), 112-29. https://doi.org/10.32674/jise.vi0.1452.

Woodill, Sharon. “Christianity and Sexuality: Girls and Women Forge New Paths.” Girlhood Studies 11, no. 2 (2018): 127-129.

Woodill, Sharon. “The Sexual Politics of Intelligent Design.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (2016): 927-952.

Woodill, Sharon. Strategic Interdisciplinarity: Self as Method. Cutting Edge: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 2 (Spring 2016): 12-28.

Woodill, Sharon. “The Christian core of intelligent design.” Zygon® 50, no. 2 (2015): 271-286.

Woodill, Sharon. Complexity Theory and Ecofeminism: Looking At a Coalition.  Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice 34, no. 2 (2010): 85-95.

Intelligent Design, Science, and Sexual Politics. (2014) Doctoral Dissertation

Presentations (Selected)

“Cultivating The Cognitive-Toolkit Online: Emerging Digital Technologies for Interdisciplinary Studies.” 5th International Conference on Education and E-Learning. Tsuru University, Tsuru, Japan, 2021

“Interdisciplinarity and Art of Human Connection.” Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Southern Utah University, 2021

“Interdisciplinarity Beyond Mixology.” Student Learning and Academic Success and College of Undergraduate Studies Learning Conference 2021, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, 2021

“User Centred Design as a Framework for Interdisciplinary Studies Teaching and Learning,” Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference, Daytona, 2020

“User-Centred Design as a Framework for Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) Teaching and Learning,” with Dr. Yasushi Akiyama, Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, 2018

“What Interdisciplinarians Do,” Co-Presenter with Dr. Richard Plate, Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, 2018

“Gender and Sexuality Beyond Belief,” Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Study of Religion Section, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2017

“Part 1: Interdisciplinarity and the Self-As-Sinner—in Theory,” Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual Conference, University of Ottawa, 2016

“Sexism and the New Atheist Act of Faith,” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, University of Calgary, 2016 “Intelligent Design and Sexual Politics,” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, University of Ottawa, 2015

“Versions of Utopia” Interdisciplinary Teaching in Arts and Humanities, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany June 2014 “Strategic Interdisciplinarity in Process,” Association for Integrated Studies, Oakland University, 2012

“Interdisciplinary Research: A Comparative View of Models for Education and Training,” Association for Integrated Studies, Co-presenter with: Julie Thompson Klein, William Newell, Alan Repko, Rick Szostak, Oakland University, 2012