CUES Staff

Guada Lozano
Director and Endowed Chair, CUES
Director, External Relations, School of Mathematical Sciences
Research Professor of Mathematics

Amy Kimme Hea
Acting Co-Director, CUES (Spring/Summer 2025)
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Student Success, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, English
Advisory Board Member, CUES

Vicente Talanquer
Acting Co-Director, CUES (Spring 2025)
University Distinguished Professor
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisory Board Member, CUES
CUES Advisory Board

Sanlyn Buxner
Associate Research Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Advisory Board Member, CUES

Sonia Colina
Director, National Center for Interpretation
Regents Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Advisory Board Member, CUES

James Hunt
Senior Assistant Dean, Career and Academic Services, CALS
Associate Professor of Practice, Family and Consumer Sciences
Advisory Board Member, CUES

Ronald Marx
Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Advisory Board Member, CUES (ex officio)

Matthew Mugmon
Associate Professor, Music
Associate Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
Advisory Board Member, CUES
2019 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2024 CUES Distinguished Fellows


Emily Jo Schwaller
Assistant Professor of Practice, University Center for Assessment, Teaching & Technology (UCATT)
Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
2024 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Teams

A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model
Shelley Staples, Professor, English; Professor, Second Language Acquisition/Teaching - GIDP; Julieta Fernández, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese; Christine Tardy, Professor, English; Associate Director, Writing Program; Ana Carvalho, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese; Professor, Second Language Acquisition/Teaching - GIDP; Cassidy Reis, Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese; Shelley Rodrigo, Writing Specialist, English; Senior Director, Writing Program

Teaching teams as communities supporting student belongingness and self-efficacy
Corin Gray, Assistant Professor of Practice, Molecular and Cellular Biology; Arin Haverland, Assistant Professor of Practice, Environmental Science; Emily Dykstra, Director, Introductory Biology Labs; Susan Hester, Assistant Professor of Practice, Molecular & Cellular Biology; Sarah Grace, Assistant Professor of Practice, Psychology; Elizabeth Eadie, Associate Professor of Practice, Anthropology; John Kanady, Senior Lecturer, Physiology; Daniel McNabney, Senior Lecturer, Physiology; Lisa Rezende, Associate Professor of Practice, Molecular & Cellular Biology; Allyson Roof, Senior Lecturer, Physiology; Alma Tejeda Padron, Assistant Professor of Practice, Psychology; Laura Van Dorn, Associate Professor of Practice, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2023 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Alex Braithwaite
Professor, School of Government & Public Policy
Associate Director, School of Government & Public Policy
2023 CUES Distinguished Fellow

2022 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Kathleen Kennedy
Associate Professor of Practice, Retailing & Consumer Sciences
2022 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Shelley Rodrigo
Associate Writing Specialist, Department of English
Senior Director, Writing Program
2022 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Caleb Simmons
Associate Professor, Religious Studies/Classics
Director, General Studies Program
2022 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team

Caitlyn Hall
Assistant Professor of Practice, Biosystems Engineering
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee

Nicole Antebi
Assistant Professor, Illustration and Animation
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee


Lysette Davi
Assistant Director, Honors Global Experience
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee

Laura Horley
Associate Director, Communications, W.A. Franke Honors College
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee

Kenneth Kokroko
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee
2021 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Jonathan Bean
Assistant Professor, Architecture & Sustainable Built Environments
Affiliated Faculty, Marketing & Architectural Engineering
2021 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Janine Hinton
Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing
Director, Steele Innovative Learning Center
2021 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Jessica Retis
Associate Professor, Journalism
Director, Master's in Bilingual Journalism
2021 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Aresta Tsosie-Paddock
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
2021 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2020 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Diana Daly
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Director, Undergraduate and Individual Studies, School of Information
2020 CUES Distinguished Fellow

William Paul Simmons
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Director, Human Rights Practice Program
2020 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2020 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team

Anne Boustead
Assistant Professor, School of Government & Public Policy
2020 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee

Victor Braitberg
Assistant Professor, W.A. Franke Honors College
Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology
2020 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee

2019 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Bryan Carter
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Director, Center for Digital Humanities
2019 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Matthew Mugmon
Assistant Professor, Music
Daveen Fox Endowed Chair (2017-19)
2019 CUES Distinguished Fellow

John Pollard
Associate Professor of Practice, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Assistant Dean, W.A. Franke Honors College
2018, 2019 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Shelley Staples
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
2019 CUES Distinguished Fellow
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellows

Mahmoud Azaz
Assistant Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Paul Blowers
University Distinguished Professor, Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Professor, Public Health
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Cheryl Lacasse
Clinical Professor, Nursing
Director, Teaching/Learning Practice and Evaluation
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Brian Mayer
Associate Professor, Sociology
Associate Professor, Public Health
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellow

Vignesh Subbian
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
2018 CUES Distinguished Fellow