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The WAC Faculty Fellows program is a faculty-to-faculty professional development program open to tenure-stream and continuing-appointment NTT instructors of all disciplines who are interested in increasing and/or refining the role of student writing in the courses they teach. Working in a faculty learning community model, participating fellows collaborate in a series of monthly, inquiry-based workshops to consider how writing can be used to learn and to communicate in disciplinary contexts. Workshops address questions and challenges that participating faculty bring to the program, as well as questions such as: How can I use writing in my classroom to support students’ learning of disciplinary knowledge and writing conventions? How do I establish an inclusive writing culture in my courses? How do I assess and respond to student writing? By the end of the program, WAC Faculty Fellows come away with a revised set of course materials and plans for implementing them.

2025 WAC Faculty Fellows

Hanan Abdelrahman
Assistant Professor, Nursing (CNHS)

Kate Archard
Senior Lecturer II, Writing Program Director, Management (CM)

Chris Bobel
Professor, Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies (CLA)

Joanna Dahl
Associate Professor, Engineering (CSM)

Shushan Dai
Lecturer, Counseling, School Psychology & Sport (CEHD)

Lorena Estrada-Mart
Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development (SFE)

Peter Federman
Assistant Professor, Public Policy & Public Affairs (McCormack School, CLA)

Sheldon George
Professor, Africana Studies (CLA)

Demeturie Toso-Lafaele Gogue
Assistant Professor, Leadership in Education (CEHD)

Maria John
Associate Professor, History (CLA)

Alicia Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Culture (CLA)

Catriona Standfield
Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Governance (McCormack, CLA)

Charles Wibiralske
Senior Lecturer, Management (CM)

Eddie Zhao
Associate Professor, Accounting & Finance (CSM)

2024 WAC Faculty Fellows

Nada Mustafa Ali
Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion & Social Development (CEHD)

Katie Almeida
Senior Lecturer, Management (CM)

Suha Ballout
Associate Professor, Nursing (CNHS)

Miguel Montalva Barba
Assistant Professor, Sociology (CLA)

Elora Halim Chowdhury
Professor, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (CLA)

Karen Crounse
Senior Lecturer, Curriculum & Instruction/Mathematics (CEHD & CSM)

Ian Drinkwater
Lecturer, Center for Academic Excellence (SEAS)

Jessica Holden
Associate Archivist, University Archives & Special Collections (Healey Library)

Leslie McClain
Lecturer, Biology & Biochemistry (CSM)

Karen Okigbo 
Assistant Professor, Sociology (CLA)

Jyoti Sinha
Lecturer, Sociology & Honors (CLA, Honors)

Doug Woodhams
Professor, Biology (CSM)