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Amelia Acker

Alumni

Information

School of Information

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Amelia Acker is an associate professor in the School of Information where she directs the Critical Data Studies Lab. Amelia researches people who build and maintain archives, data technologies, and information infrastructure. Amelia's PTF project is SCiSCHOOL, a science fiction book club that brings graduate students together to discuss the ethics and social impacts of near and future information technologies in our daily lives.

Patrick Davis

PTF Emeritus

Pharmacy

College of Pharmacy

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Mentorship

Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy (Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry). Teaches required and elective pharmacy coursework in drug metabolism, infectious diseases, and interprofessional health education. Also teaches a First-Year Signature Course on historical pandemics and their impact on society.

Andrew Dell'Antonio

Current Fellow

Music

College of Fine Arts

Initiative Focus

Curriculum (Re)design

Faculty Communication

Improving Teaching and Learning

Andrew Dell’Antonio (he/him/his) specializes in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with a focus on seventeenth-century Italy. His research interests include musical historiography, reception history, and disability studies.

Carol Delville

PTF Emeritus

Nursing

School of Nursing

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

My focus is advanced practice nursing (APRN) education using an active experience learning competency-based approach. Student engage in both clinical and community project to improve health outcomes. My Provost Fellow Project helps me to design and publish a clinical evaluation tool for our APRN programs.

Jules Elkins

Current Fellow

Sustainability Studies

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

Dr. Elkins is the Director of Sustainability Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and the Environment. Dr. Elkins’ research and teaching is in environmental health, and healthy indoor environments. She is particularly interested in low-dose chemical exposures, especially during the period from preconception to early childhood. Her interests focus on how exposures can be practically and cost-effectively reduced or prevented based on evidence-based models of what interventions measurably work.

Erica "EG" Gionfriddo

Current Fellow

Theatre and Dance

College of Fine Arts

Initiative Focus

Curriculum (Re)design

Faculty Communication

Improving Teaching and Learning

Erica Gionfriddo is a dance artist, educator and somatic researcher who believes in the intelligent body each of us occupies. They are co-founder of ARCOS Dance (arcosdance.com), whose ongoing inquiry probes the intersection of technology and humanity through rigorous interdisciplinary experimentation. ARCOS’ recent work has focused on “hacking” consumer technologies, or repurposing them outside of their intended uses, into performance and developing an embodied cyborgian movement language.

Madeleine Holland

Alumni

Communication Studies

Moody College of Communication

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Dr. Madeleine Holland is an associate professor of instruction in the Department of Communication Studies, as well as the Moody College’s program manager for interdisciplinary education initiatives. She coordinates partnerships among departments within the College and also with other academic units on campus, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Elon Lang

Current Fellow

Liberal Arts Honors and Humanities Programs

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Curriculum (Re)design

Faculty Communication

Improving Teaching and Learning

Institutional Resource

Elon Lang is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches a variety of undergraduate literature survey courses on ethical topics, medieval and early modern studies, dramatic literature, and Experiential Learning courses based in archival research. One example was his 2020-2021 courses called Archival Advocacy in which students learned how to bring archival techniques to bear on a real-world social justice issue facing the East Austin, Texas, community: the closing of one of Austin's historically Hispanic elementary schools.

Stephanie Seidel Holmsten

Alumni

Government

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

Stephanie Seidel Holmsten is an associate professor of instruction in the College of Liberal Arts where she teaches core courses in the International Relations and Global Studies program, as well as Gender and Politics in the Government Department. Her teaching methods include global virtual exchange and team-based learning. She is Chair of the Provost Teaching Fellows, co-Director of the Brumley Next Generation Scholars Program, and Director of the Global Virtual Exchange faculty learning community. Her research explores minority women's election around the world.

Pauline Strong

Alumni

Anthropology

Humanities Institute

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Dr. Pauline Strong is a Professor of Anthropology and served as director of the Humanities Institute and its Difficult Dialogues Program from 2009 until 2022. She is also affiliated with American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Human Dimensions of Organizations. Her research focuses on representations and self-representations of indigenous people in the US, and her teaching areas include cultural anthropology, feminist anthropology, culture and health, museum studies, youth organizations, and indigenous cultures and histories.

Louis Waldman

Former Members

Art and Art History

French and Italian

College of Fine Arts

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Mentorship

Louis Alexander Waldman is an Associate Professor in Art and Art History (College of Fine Arts) with a joint appointment in French and Italian (Liberal Arts). Previously Louis worked in Florence, Italy, as Assistant Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti.