Humanities at Hawken
Modern Lives, Ancient Wisdom
A New Hampshire native, Julia Griffin grew up in New York and New England, earning a B.A. from Harvard University in Political Theory and an M.A. in English Literature from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English. After college she moved to Ohio, where she has spent the past decade learning from her students and her colleagues at Hawken School. She has designed a number of Humanities, English and/or History courses for grades 9-12, including Dramatic Literature, American Studies and Gender Studies courses. Most recently she has been engaged in developing a 9th and 10th grade Humanities sequence at Hawken, where she currently serves as chair of the Humanities Department. When she’s not teaching, Julia’s likely to be experimenting with vegetarian cooking, practicing yoga, or traveling the world with her husband, the intrepid Dr. Jason Davis, and their five month old daughter Cordelia.
About your conference presenters
Dorothy Moulthrop has been the Director of Curriculum Design at Hawken School near Cleveland, Ohio, since 2010. In her current position, Dorothy prepares teachers to create and implement innovative curricula in Hawken's new intensive schedule, where students focus on a single course for three weeks at a time. Dorothy began her career teaching English Language Arts and English language learners at San Lorenzo High School in the Bay Area of Northern California. Eventually, she led both the English department and school-wide professional development. Before teaching in Hawken’s Humanities program, she taught English at Shaker Heights High School. A longtime advocate for raising the esteem of the profession, Dorothy has served on the board of the Teacher Salary Project since 2008. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Italian from Northwestern University; her teaching credential from the University of California, Berkeley’s Multicultural Urban Secondary English program; and her M. Ed. from Ursuline College. She lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with her husband Dan Moulthrop and their three children, Nico (7), Elisa (6), and Gabriel (4). When she’s not cooking for her extensive Italian American family, she can be found sweating, rather, breathing through, downward dog pose.