Guevarra and Naber Selected for Public Voices Fellowship
Barb Wilson, Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs announced the second cohort for the system-wide Public Voices Fellowship. The national Public Voices Fellowship is a unique opportunity led by The OpEd Project and designed for tenure-system faculty. The program is part of a national initiative to help faculty amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public conversations about pressing issues. The 20 faculty in this second cohort will attend four sessions held during the 2020-21 academic year and will be paired with a journalism mentor that provides one-on-one editing and coaching, with the goal of publishing two op-ed pieces during the program.
With more than 40 nominations received from across our three universities for the program, the selection process was very competitive. Diversity of background and experiences as well as university representation were factors in the selection process.
Congratulations to the following faculty who were selected for the 2020-21 program.
Chicago
• Benét DeBerry-Spence, Department of Marketing
• Anna Guevarra, Global Asian Studies Program
• Young Richard Kim, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies
• Maria Krysan, Department of Sociology
• P. Zitlali Morales, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
• Nadine Naber, Gender and Women’s Studies Program; Global Asian Studies Program
• Angela Odoms-Young, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition
• Sandra Sufian, Department of Health Humanities and History, Disability Studies
Springfield
• Sharon Graf, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
• Shipra Gupta, Department of Business Administration
• Hanfu Mi, Department of Literacy Education and Linguistics
Urbana-Champaign
• Jan Erkert, Department of Dance
• Margareth Etienne, Graduate and International Program, College of Law
• Karen Flynn, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Department of African American Studies
• Alexandra Harmon-Threat, Department of Entomology
• Mary Pat McGuire, Department of Landscape Architecture
• Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Department of Latina/Latino Studies; Media and Cinema Studies
• Colleen Murphy, College of Law
• Leslie Reagan, Department of History
• Kim Selting, Veterinary Clinical Medicine