Past Innovative Teaching Fellows: College of Arts and Sciences
Meet the previous recipients of the Innovative Teaching Fellows within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sheri Anderson-Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Fall 2022
Course taught: History of Spanish Linguistics

Jamel Bell, Ph.D., Communication, Fall 2012
Course taught: Contemporary Issues in Media: Crossroads of Race, Class, and the Digital
Divide

Doug Boin, Ph.D., History, Fall 2014
Course taught: The Rise of Christianity in Rome and the Transformation of the City

Elena Bray Speth, Ph.D., Biology, Spring 2012
Course taught: Scientific Communication in Biology

Simone Bregni, Ph.D., Languages, Literature, and Culture, Spring 2017
Course taught: Intensive Italian for Gamers

Flannery Burke, Ph.D., History, Spring 2012, Spring 2019
2012 Course Taught: U.S. History 1877 to the Present
2019 Course Taught: Mapping and Texting the Wilderness Here (co-taught with Juliana
Chow)

Liz Burke, INTO-SLU, Fall 2019
Course taught: Academic Reading and Study Skills II

Course taught: Mapping and Texting the Wilderness Here (co-taught with Flannery Burke)

Course taught: Global Mental Health

Kim Druschel, Ph.D., Mathematics and Computer Science, Fall 2014
Course taught: Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher

Cathleen A. Fleck, Ph.D., Art History, Fall 2015
Course taught: Art and the Body

Christina Garcia, Ph.D., Fall 2021
Course taught: Spanish for the Health Professions

Claire Gilbert, Ph.D., Fall 2022
Course Taught: History of Spanish Linguistics

Mary R. Gould, Ph.D., Communication, Fall 2013
Course Taught: Digital Storytelling: Community Media Production

Amber Hinsley, Ph.D., Communication, Fall 2016
Course Taught: Digital Media as Professional Tools

Kate Holdener, Ph.D., Fall 2020
Course Taught: Software Architecture

Yizhou Huang, Ph.D., Spring 2024
Course Taught: Global East Asian Performance

Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic, Ph.D., Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 2014
Course Taught: Sociology of Mental Health

Amber Knight, Ph.D., Political Science, Spring 2017
Course Taught: Disability Theory and Politics

David Letscher, Ph.D., Computer Science
Course Taught: Data Structures

Kathleen Llewellyn, Ph.D., French, Spring 2012
Course Taught: Les Medias et les actualities

Kelly Lovejoy, Ph.D., Languages, Literature, and Culture, Fall 2018
Course Taught: Language in Use: Interaction and Intercultural Communication in Spanish

Paul Lynch, Ph.D., English, Spring 2013
Course Taught: Teaching Writing

Colleen McCluskey, Ph.D., Philosophy, Fall 2019
Course Taught: Ethics

Nathaniel C. Millett, Ph.D., History, Spring 2013
Course Taught: Origins of the Modern World

Matthew Nanes, Ph.D., Political Science, Spring 2023
Course Taught: Methods in Political Science

Shawn Nordell, Ph.D., Biology, Spring 2014
Course Taught: Animal Behavior

Pascale Perraudin, Ph.D., Languages, Literature, and Culture, Spring 2018
Course Taught: French and International Relations

Nathaniel A. Rivers, Ph.D., English, Fall 2012
Course Taught: New Media Science Writing

Anne Stiles, Ph.D., English, Spring 2015
Course Taught: Public Health and the Victorian Built Environment

Sergey Toymentsev, Ph.D., Fall 2023
Course Taught: Putin's Idiocracy

Emmanuel Uwalaka, Ph.D., Political Science, Fall 2012
Course Taught: International Relations of Africa

Ann Wainscott, Ph.D., Political Science, Spring 2015
Course Taught: America and the Middle East

Jeffrey Wickes, Ph.D., Theological Studies, Spring 2017
Course Taught: Music, Poetry and Theology

Mark Wilson, Theatre, Spring 2016
Course Taught: Introduction to Theatre

Amy Wright, Ph.D., Languages, Literature, and Culture, Spring 2016
Course Taught: Performing “Solitude” in Community: García Márquez's 100 Años de Soledad

Luke Yarborough, Ph.D., History, Fall 2015
Course Taught: Jihad: Striving in God's Way