Contributors
Nadia Awaida is the academic director at Eckerd College ELS-ILSC, St. Petersburg, Florida. In this role, she oversees all aspects of academic operations, leveraging her extensive expertise in curriculum development and adult education.
Maha Bali is a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in education from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Dr. Karen Samantha Barton is a professor of geography, GIS, and sustainability at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on community resilience and deep adaptation in the wake of environmental disaster and global environmental change.
Niya Bond is an online educator, faculty development facilitator, and PhD student at the University of Maine studying online teaching and learning. Her publications focus on empowering online learners and educators, creating and sustaining virtual communities of practice (both formal and informal), and facilitating equitable, belonging, and inclusive educational experiences. Niya has presented nationally on using clarity, caring, and community-building in online education, increasing online learner engagement and success, and enacting feminist pedagogy in online teaching/learning spaces and places.
Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty member at Anadolu University, Türkiye. Dr. Bozkurt’s work focuses on empirical studies in areas such as distance education, online learning, networked learning, and educational technology.
Dr. Amy M. Collier connects digital learning possibilities to strategic academic priorities at Middlebury. She oversees Middlebury’s Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry.
Rebecca Cottrell is an online and hybrid course development analyst in the Social Work Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver. In this role, she works with faculty to develop online courses and to incorporate inclusive pedagogy in online spaces.
Clare Daniel is a senior professor of practice and the director of research at Newcomb Institute of Tulane University, where she teaches in the Department of Communication. She received her PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico. Her book Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has also appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online digital guide.
Rujuta Date is an anthropologist by training and has seven years of experience working as a researcher and faculty. She is currently interested in exploring digitally mediated humour in India through her research. She is also the co-founder of Academic-ish, an online platform that organizes reading and discussion sessions, workshops, courses, and seminars on works and issues from the Global South.
Kathryn E. Frazier is an associate professor of psychology at Worcester State University. She earned her Master’s and PhD degrees in developmental psychology from Clark University.
Staci Gilpin is a part-time faculty member at the University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin—Superior. She is dedicated to the advancement of teacher education, both at graduate and at undergraduate levels, employing various teaching methods to enrich her courses.
Ashley Glassburn is a President’s Indigenous Peoples Scholar at the University of Windsor and an active member of the Miami Nation of Indiana. In addition to research and teaching at the university, she organizes language reclamation efforts for the Miami Nation, including summer youth camps and teaching adult language and grammar workshops in Myaamia, a member of the Algonquian language family.
Letizia Guglielmo is a professor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University. Her writing and research explore feminist rhetoric and pedagogy, gender and pop culture, and professional development for students and faculty.
Nandita Gurjar is an assistant professor of elementary education at Rhode Island College. Nandita earned a PhD in education from the University of Central Florida.
Priya Gurjar is a research project manager at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center. She received her Master of Arts in women’s studies from the University of Florida, where her research centred on cultural formations of sexual violence and the stories of survivors that emerge in its aftermath.
Dr. Jo Hemlatha (they/them) is a writer-anthropologist trained in participatory, feminist, and ethnographic research methods. Jo is involved with multiple open-access projects bridging anthropology and advocacy; Almaarii (a visual anthropology of South Asian queer closets) and Trans/form (a project to understand anti-trans violence in India) among others.
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard is a professor of practice of data and the associate director of student engagement at the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science at Tulane University. She is a historian whose teaching, research, and mentoring work centres on digital humanities, critical data studies, data literacy education, surveillance studies, the history of empires and data information, and applying equitable data practices to learning spaces. She is a founding co-editor of the nationally recognized guide Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online and has published journal articles and chapters on social and cultural topics related to the history of science and technology studies and digital humanities labs.
Dr. Nadia V. Jaramillo Cherrez is a senior instructional designer at Oregon State University—Ecampus. She advises faculty members on the development of online and hybrid courses that incorporate innovative, learner-centred pedagogical approaches and interactive technologies.
Bridget A. Kriner teaches English and women’s and gender studies at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a PhD in urban education and an MA in English from Cleveland State University and a certificate in women’s and gender studies from the University of Toledo.
Steven James Mockler, MPA (he/they) is currently the assistant director of academic affairs for Verto Education. In their role, they oversee the implementation of academic technology, academic program evaluation, and training.
Dr. Jana Lo Bello Miller has been part of the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities community since 2012. Her scholarly interests include elementary teacher education, equity-based pedagogies, as well as identity constructions within formal and informal educational spaces.
Liv Newman is administrative assistant professor and associate director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching at Tulane University. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Florida and her MA in education policy from Stanford University. Dr. Newman has worked in higher education for nearly 25 years spanning both teaching and administrative roles. She has extensive experience improving undergraduate and graduate, on-the-ground, and online teaching through her faculty development positions and numerous leadership roles. Her scholarly interests focus on the intersection of race and class, inequities in education, and enhancing the online educational experience for faculty and students.
Ann Obermann is an associate professor of social work and the online education coordinator at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Ann loves engaging with her students on topics such as digital ethics, social work in a digital world, change and technology, and looking at social problems through the lens of social media.
Sarah Payne is an instructional designer with a particular focus on digital scholarship and the digital humanities. She has experience helping faculty to integrate digital scholarship assignments in the classroom, from semester-long projects to short in-class activities.
Chloe Raub is the manager of library research services at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and previously served as the head of the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection at Tulane University.
Dr. Xinyue Ren is an assistant professor of instructional design and technology at Old Dominion University. Previously, she had three years of experience working as an instructional designer in higher education. She is interested in advocating the use of open educational resources to design and develop courses to foster student engagement and retention in higher education.
Dana Rognlie is lecturer of philosophy at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She earned her MA and PhD in philosophy and a certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from the University of Oregon.
Dr. Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville. In her research and publications, she focuses on the exploration of emergent technologies that help to promote, practise, and implement effective and efficient learning experiences. She is particularly interested in informal and non-formal online learning, networked learning in online social communities, and learners’ and instructors’ digital literacy in higher education. She is the editor of the volume Research Methods in Learning Design and Technology published by Routledge. You can connect with Dr. Romero-Hall at https://
Saanchi Saxena is a final-year PhD candidate in urban geography at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, caste, informality, and the production of urban space in India. She is also the co-founder of Academic-ish, an online platform that organizes reading and discussion sessions, workshops, courses, and seminars on works and issues from the Global South.
Catharyn C. Shelton is an assistant professor of educational technology at Northern Arizona University’s College of Education. As a former high school Spanish and special education teacher, Catharyn is passionate about supporting teachers as leaders to realize equity and justice outcomes in education and what they see, produce, and engage with in such spaces.
Elizabeth A. Siler is a professor in the Business Administration and Economics Department at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. She teaches a range of management courses and is an advocate of open educational resources, using them almost exclusively.
Sukaina Walji is the director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town.
Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak leads a team of instructional designers focused on creating digital learning opportunities and environments that support learner agency, equity, and critical engagement with the digital.
Stephanie Rollag Yoon is an assistant professor of English education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches preservice and practising teachers in the areas of digital literacy, culturally responsive pedagogy, and writing pedagogy.