2008 Woodie Awards
Faculty Profiles: Professor Tyler Dickovick
Caroline Davis
Issue date: 3/14/07 Section: News
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Will the real Professor Dickovick please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?
What you might know about Professor Tyler Dickovick is that he teaches a variety of international and politics based courses here at Washington and Lee.
What you might not know about him is his performance in Princeton University's Christmas skit during his graduate school years.
Professor Dickovick dyed his hair platinum blond and performed his own version of an Eminem song to make fun of the faculty, students, and administrators.
But when he's not spouting rap lyrics, playing with his two-year-old daughter, or biking to class, Professor Dickovick is attending to his hectic teaching schedule here at W&L.
Now in his third year of teaching at W&L, Dickovick educates students in courses such as Global Politics, International Development, Latin American Politics, and International Political Economy.
While he enjoys teaching each of his classes, Professor Dickovick admits that one teaching experience in particular stands out in his mind. "My favorite course so far would have to be the course on Politics in Africa I taught while in Senegal last spring," says Dickovick. "The setting made it. The whole experience was more eye-opening for students than anything I could attempt on campus."
But Professor Dickovick didn't always dream of being a teacher.
"Growing up, I wanted to play first base for the Boston Red Sox. I did enjoy being a tutor for younger kids growing up, but I really taught my own classes for the first time in the Peace Corps after college. When I went back to graduate school, however, I thought I wanted to work in an international development agency, such as a non-governmental organization (NGO) or an international institution like the World Bank," says Dickovick.
"It was a couple of experiences teaching in graduate school that made me want to come to a liberal arts college like W&L."
And he likes where he is right now.
For Professor Dickovick, there are two aspects that he admires most about W&L. "One, feeling like most everyone is in it together. Though I don't want to overstate the case, in Lexington, students and faculty don't have the cutthroat attitude about academics, research, and learning that I have seen at some other places," says Dickovick. "Two, students really come by the office to talk, which I never did as an undergrad, and which is surprisingly rare elsewhere.
Despite how much he enjoys W&L, Professor Dickovick won't be in Lexington forever. He has high travel ambitions for his future. Dickovick hopes to adventure to Seville, Spain and Rajasthan, India at some point in his life.
"I would also like to trek in the Himalayas, would like to bicycle across Europe, and really want to go to Ethiopia," says Dickovick.
What you might know about Professor Tyler Dickovick is that he teaches a variety of international and politics based courses here at Washington and Lee.
What you might not know about him is his performance in Princeton University's Christmas skit during his graduate school years.
Professor Dickovick dyed his hair platinum blond and performed his own version of an Eminem song to make fun of the faculty, students, and administrators.
But when he's not spouting rap lyrics, playing with his two-year-old daughter, or biking to class, Professor Dickovick is attending to his hectic teaching schedule here at W&L.
Now in his third year of teaching at W&L, Dickovick educates students in courses such as Global Politics, International Development, Latin American Politics, and International Political Economy.
While he enjoys teaching each of his classes, Professor Dickovick admits that one teaching experience in particular stands out in his mind. "My favorite course so far would have to be the course on Politics in Africa I taught while in Senegal last spring," says Dickovick. "The setting made it. The whole experience was more eye-opening for students than anything I could attempt on campus."
But Professor Dickovick didn't always dream of being a teacher.
"Growing up, I wanted to play first base for the Boston Red Sox. I did enjoy being a tutor for younger kids growing up, but I really taught my own classes for the first time in the Peace Corps after college. When I went back to graduate school, however, I thought I wanted to work in an international development agency, such as a non-governmental organization (NGO) or an international institution like the World Bank," says Dickovick.
"It was a couple of experiences teaching in graduate school that made me want to come to a liberal arts college like W&L."
And he likes where he is right now.
For Professor Dickovick, there are two aspects that he admires most about W&L. "One, feeling like most everyone is in it together. Though I don't want to overstate the case, in Lexington, students and faculty don't have the cutthroat attitude about academics, research, and learning that I have seen at some other places," says Dickovick. "Two, students really come by the office to talk, which I never did as an undergrad, and which is surprisingly rare elsewhere.
Despite how much he enjoys W&L, Professor Dickovick won't be in Lexington forever. He has high travel ambitions for his future. Dickovick hopes to adventure to Seville, Spain and Rajasthan, India at some point in his life.
"I would also like to trek in the Himalayas, would like to bicycle across Europe, and really want to go to Ethiopia," says Dickovick.
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