Community Engaged Scholars
Welcome to the Community Engaged Scholars Directory! This directory is a searchable listing of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University faculty and staff who are knowledgeable subject-matter experts with a demonstrated a commitment to ethical community engagement.
The purpose of this directory is to:
- Provide a resource to external partners interested in engaging with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University staff and faculty.
- Increase awareness and recognition of community engaged faculty and administrators.
- Build a network to share professional development opportunities, networking events, and competitive state and national community engagement award opportunities.
Are you a scholar interested in joining the directory? Learn more about the Community Engaged Scholar Training, or if you are already an alumni of the training program (formerly known as the Service-Learning C-Course Training).
Tiffany Arnold
Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: Interdisciplinary Health Studies
Interest Area: Appalachia, Appalachian Cultural Competency, Marginalized Populations, Poverty & Basic Needs, Social Justice
Rebecca Challenger
Assistant Director, Academic Coordinator, & Professor of Instruction in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Program of Intensive English, College of Arts and Sciences
Department or Program: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Program of Intensive English (OPIE)
Interest Area: Special Education and ESL, ESL materials development, culturally sensitive pedagogy, inter-cultural communication and teacher training
Joseph Crowley
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Patton College of Education
Department or Program: Recreation, Sport Pedagogy and Consumer Sciences
Interest Area: Marginalized Populations, Place Making, Social Justice, Sports & Recreation, Children & Youth, Leadership Education, Environmental Education, Economic Development, Older Adults, Persons with Disabilities
Tobe Gillogly
Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: Department of Interdisciplinary Health Studies (IHS)
Interest Area: Marginalized Populations, Poverty & Basic Needs, Social Justice, Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Mentorship, Early Childhood Education, Leadership Education, Austism Services & Advocacy, Special Needs Services & Advocacy, Clinical Health
Michael Kopish
Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Patton College of Education
Department or Program: Teacher Education
Interest Area: Global Citizenship Education, Globally Competent Teaching; Community Engaged Teacher Education, Service Learning; Inclusive Classroom Practices in Social Studies.
Jamie Lambert
Associate Professor of Instruction of Marketing, College of Business
Department or Program: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ International Consulting Program
Interest Area: Marketing, Nonprofit Marketing, Teaching Effectiveness, Service Learning, Consulting Programs, Team Projects
Courtney Lefebvre Little
Assistant Director, University College
Department or Program: Center for Campus & Community Engagement
Interest Area: Collective Impact, Community Work Study, Volunteer coordination, Tracking & assessment of Community Engagement, Strategic Planning
Peter Mather
Professor, Patton College of Education
Department or Program: Counseling and Higher Education
Interest Area: Human Rights, Marginalized Populations, Place Making, Poverty & Basic Needs, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice, Mentorship, Economic Development, Workforce Development
Mary Nally
Director, University College
Department or Program: Center for Campus & Community Engagement
Interest Area: Community Engagement, Campus-Community Partnerships, Citizenship & Civic Engagement, Civil Dialogue, Food Systems, Food Justice, Affordable Housing, Social Justice
Michelle O'Malley
Associate Professor of Instruction in Linguistics & Undergraduate Chair, College of Arts and Sciences
Department or Program: Linguistics
Interest Area: Applied sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, ethnography, Appalachia, language systems and identity, social justice, place-making, mentorship, leadership, environmental leadership & sustainability
Julia Paxton
Professor and Undergraduate Chair, College of Arts and Sciences
Department or Program: Economics
Interest Area: Economics, poverty alleviation, effective philanthropy, food security, Â and local and global economic development.
Rebecca Robison-Miller
Senior Director of Community Relations, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: Community Engagement
Interest Area: Health & Health Disparities, Food Insecurity/Hunger, Marginalized Populations, Poverty & Basic Needs, Social Justice, Children and Youth, Early Childhood Education, Mental Health, Relationship & Sexual Violence, Homelessness & Housing, Older Adults,
Jeff Russell
Associate Professor of Athletic Training, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: Applied Health Sciences and Wellness & SHAPe Clinic
Interest Area: Healthcare access for performing artists, performing arts medicine (dance, music, theatre, circus, tv, film, marching band), clinical health, mental health
Kerri Shaw
Associate Professor of Instruction and Field Director, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: Social Work Field Education
Interest Area: Human Rights, Legal Advocacy, Marginalized Populations, Poverty & Basic Needs, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice, Election Engagement & Voting Rights, Clinical Health, Mental Health, Workforce Development, Gender & Sexuality, Immigrants & Refugees
Nancy Stevens
Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Department or Program: Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies
Interest Area: Biodiversity Conservation, Ecotourism and the World's Most Endangered Primates, Conservation, Dinosaurs, Ecotourism, Environmental Change Through Time, Extinction, Field and Laboratory Studies in Locomotor Kinematics, Fossils, Paleontology
Thom Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Patton College of Education
Department or Program: Recreation, Sport Pedagogy, and Consumer Sciences
Interest Area: Hospitality Industry, Foodways/Food Sovereignty Systems, Universal Design; Experiential Learning in the Areas of Hospitality and Social Enterprise; Training in the World’s Classroom for a Greater Understanding of Connections.
Rachel Terman
Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Department or Program: Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Interest Area: Rural sociology, Appalachian studies, Sociology of gender and identities, Women's studies, Social inequalities
Andie Walla
Assistant Professor, Scripps College of Communication
Department or Program: School of Media Arts & Studies
Interest Area: Media & Broadcasting
Christine Zachrich
Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Department or Program: School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness
Interest Area: Collaboration with community partners for supervised practice experiences Development, implementation, and evaluation of nutrition curriculum for community partners
