My instructional practice focuses on graduate student professional development, leadership, and career planning in Planning, Public Policy & Management. I also love working with our undergraduate students!
In my courses, students engage in applied and experiential learning to prepare them for the professional, leadership, and career goals they have identified. They have opportunities to build specific knowledge bases, skill sets, and professional practices. I encourage students to explore significant concerns around the interdisciplinary nature of and power dynamics of managing and administering, critiquing and interpreting, writing and researching. I support and guide students through plans for their professional life, including development of skills, knowledge, and experience through internship, fellowships, jobs, and other career opportunities.
I have served in roles such as the Director of UO Common Reading, an invited member of the Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the international Association of Arts Administration Educators, the Education Excellence Committee for the DKG International Women Educators Group - Oregon, general and asistant managers of local theatre companies, and advisory boards for ArtCore, the Oregon Cultural Advocacy Coalition, and the Oregon Arts Commission, among many other roles.
Current UO Courses
PPPM 412: Professional Development & Internship
PPPM 494: Practice of Leadership & Change
PPPM 604: Internship
PPPM 604: Internship Nonprofit
PPPM 605: Reading
PPPM 606: Special Problems
PPPM 623: Professional Development I
PPPM 663: Professional Development II
Past UO Courses
AAD 199: Portable Life Museum
AAD 199: Art Meets Science: Making the Invisible Visible
AAD 199: Creative Collaborations
AAD 250: Art & Human Values
AAD 251: Art and Visual Literacy
AAD 252: Art and Gender
AAD 301: Understanding Arts & Creative Sectors
AAD 312: Arts Management
AAD 421/521: Cultural Programming
AAD 471/571: Performing Arts Management
Courses at Prior Institutions
Theatre Across the Disciplines
Writing Across the Disciplines
Costuming for the Stage
Theatre History I
Makeup for the Stage
Theatre Projects
Managing and Organizing Your Time
Introduction to Professional Writing and Communications
Awards and Recognitions
UO Sustainability Teaching Award, June 2023
UO Sustainability Fellowship, June 2022 - June 2023
UO Leadership Academy, June 2021- June 2022
UO Global Justice Program Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace Grant: Elevating Black and Indigenous Communities April 2021-June 2022
UO Communities for Accelerating the Impact of Teaching (CAITS/pre-CAITS) Faculty Member:
- Career Readiness, June 2020-June 2021
- Working Group on Inclusive and Intercultural Teaching, 2017-2018
- Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group, 2016-2017
UO Teaching Academy, since 2017
UO Williams Fellow for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence 2017-2018
UO Rippey Innovative Teaching Awards, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
My current research interests include experiential learning for professional and career development in public and nonprofit sector settings; systems of access, marginalization, and belonging in public and nonprofit workplace settings; and active and engaged teaching and learning for public and nonprofit sector students. I have special interests in issues related to pedagogy, gender, the working class, and art alongside various elements of performance, process, and production of identity.
I have studied and written on arts and culture in recreation and leisure settings, the state of arts education policy and practice in Oregon, representations of comic book superheroes, and the history of large-scale theatrical pageants in the City of Eugene, Oregon. I have published in the following peer-reviewed journals: DKG International Journal for International Educators; American Journal of Arts Management; Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society; Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics; Willamette Valley Voices; and Northwest Theatre Review. I also published a book chapter (2018) on arts and culture in parks and recreation settings for an introductory textbook and am working on a revised edition for the 4th edition of this text.
I have served on the editing team for Studies in Art Education, am Past Editor for CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts & Culture Workers, and was a lead reviewer for a text on Women Cartoonists published by Canadian Scholars, and was editro for the Teaching Notes section of the American Journal of Arts Management.
UO Distinguished Teaching Professor, June 2024
UO Sustainability Teaching Award, June 2023
DKG Intl. Oregon State Organization Huston Award, March 2023
UO Sustainability Fellowship, June 2022 - June 2023
UO Leadership Academy, June 2021- June 2022
UO Global Justice Program Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace Grant: Elevating Black and Indigenous Communities April 2021-June 2022
UO Communities for Accelerating the Impact of Teaching (CAITS/pre-CAITS) Faculty Member:
- Career Readiness, June 2020-June 2021
- Working Group on Inclusive and Intercultural Teaching, 2017-2018
- Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group, 2016-2017
UO Teaching Academy, since 2017
UO Williams Fellow for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence 2017-2018
UO Rippey Innovative Teaching Awards, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Memberships
National Association of Colleges and Employers
NASPAA/Public Administration Career Professionals
National Career Development Association
Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers
Oregon Academic Advising Association
American Association of University Professors
DKG International Women Educators
American Association of University Women
Oregon Women in Higher Education
UO Career Leaders Forum