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2024-2025 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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Robin Hensel

Teaching Professor, Fundamentals of Engineering Program Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

As part of “People-Friendly Design,” students will explore techniques for human-centered design.

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Amy Hirshman

Associate Professor of Anthropology Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

As part of “People-Friendly Design,” students will explore techniques for human-centered design.

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Katie Jones

Associate Professor of Fashion Design and Merchandising College of Creative Arts and Media

In "Masculine Fashion," students will explore the history and culture of menswear and masculine dress styles across time and space

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Adam Komisaruk

Professor of English Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

During “Material Texts,” students will develop a consciousness of books as objects and a self-consciousness of the ways we interact with them.

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2023-2024 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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Atheer Almasri

Teaching Assistant Professor FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING, BENJAMIN M. STATLER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAL RESOURCES

In "Climate Change via Excel," students will study climate change and global warming through data analysis using Microsoft Excel.

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Jonathon Beckmeyer

Assistant Professor COLLEGE OF APPLIED HUMAN SCIENCES

“Youth and Societal Change” explores contemporary positive youth development within the context of our evolving society.

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Cari Carpenter

Professor ENGLISH, EBERLY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

An interdisciplinary course rooted in Native American Studies, English and Ecocriticism, “Indigenous Ecostudies” focuses on the different techniques Indigenous people bring to studying the environment.

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Jason Manning

Associate Professor SOCIOLOGY, EBERLY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

“Collective Violence” will explore America’s largely forgotten history of collective violence, including execution by lynch mobs, rioting against minorities, rebellions against the government and small-scale wars between settlers and natives.

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Brianne Taylor

Assistant Professor SCHOOL OF THEATRE AND DANCE, COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS

Examining the anatomy of accents, the social impact of speaking with an accent, and the responsibility of artistic application in mainstream media is the primary exploration of “Artistry in the Accent.”

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Dan Totzkay

Assistant Professor COMMUNICATION STUDIES, EBERLY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

This course applies social science and public health communication research and theory to understand health disparities and how to better address them.

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2022-2023 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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Vagner Benedito

Professor of Biochemical Genetics and Plant Physiology Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

In “Use and Abuse of Science,” students will explore the mechanisms and limitations of science from its potential to solve societal problems to cases of intentional scientific fraud and abuse.

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Rose Casey

Assistant Professor English, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

“What Makes For A Just World” brings together law and literature to engage global perspectives on justice. By reading novels, poetry and drama alongside legal statutes, resolutions and conventions, students will see how law and literature employ.

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David Smith

Teaching Associate Professor REED COLLEGE OF MEDIA

“Extending Reality” will present students with a guided media and discussion-based tour of XR technology (virtual, augmented, and mixed reality), learning about its origins, current applications, and future growth potential.

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Lynne Stahl

“Exploring How Films Produce Meaning and Impact” will teach students literacy in the art and language of film, pushing students to analyze the stories we tell in relation to the sociopolitical contexts and information economies in which they are produced.

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2020-2021 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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2019-2020 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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2018-2019 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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2017-2018 Faculty Fellow Cohort

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