Trading Races and Flipping the Classroom

During her 2012-13 Visiting Faculty Fellowship with the Humanities Writ Large initiative at Duke University, Adeline Koh is developing a historical role-playing game called Trading Races. The game is set at the University of Michigan in 2003. Players contest the fate of affirmative action there, taking on the roles of specific historical figures and a student assembly.

In this video, Koh talks about her game, about the "Reacting to the Past" pedagogy that it's based on, and about the RTTP conference she has organized for Jan. 19 & 20, 2013 at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute.