Writing Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3010
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1995)
Mass Communication (Focus: Education/Literacy Practices)
Dissertation: Reading Progress: Public Literacy in Progressive Era History Textbooks, dir. Hazel Dicken-Garcia
M.A., University of Minnesota (1991)
B.A., Macalester College (1985)
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Writing, Director of the Writing Program 2009-
Eastern Michigan University
Professor of English 2008-2010
Associate Professor of English 2003-2008
Assistant Professor of English 2000-2003
Director of First-Year Writing, 2000-2010
Faculty Advisor/Director, University Writing Center 2007-2010
Director, Inside-Out Project 2001-2005
Grant-funded project coordinating outreach and collaboration with local secondary school district.
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric 1997-2000
Writing Center Director 1997-2000
Director, Curriculum Revision Project 1999-2000
University of Minnesota
General College
Teaching Specialist in Composition 1994-1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Composition 1990-1994
Co-Director, Writing Program 1995-1997
Associate Administrator and University Liaison, General College/Penumbra Theatre-Fund for Improvement in Post-Secondary Education Grant 1991-1994
Transition program for students at risk of not successfully completing post-secondary education.
SCHOLARSHIP
(* indicates peer reviewed publication)
In Progress/Forthcoming
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Peggy O'Neill. Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning. Logan:Utah State University Press. Forthcoming, 2010.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. "Responsibility, Visibility, and Composition's Future in the 21st Century: Reframing “Accountability." Accepted for publication, College Composition and Communication special issue (60th anniversary publication).
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Agency, Identities, and Action: Stories and the Writing Classroom." In Texts of Consequence, eds. Christopher Wilkey and Nicholas Mauriello. Under contract, Hampton Press.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. "Basic Writing: Margins, Access, Standards." Accepted for inclusion in Kelly Ritter, ed. Defining Composition Studies: Research, Scholarship, and Inquiry for the 21st Century. Forthcoming, Utah State University Press.
Books
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers. Logan: Utah State UP, 2008.
Winner, Council of Writing Program Administrators 2008-2010 Best Book Award
*Adler-Kassner, Linda, ed. Reading and Writing the College Experience. New York: Longman Publishers, 2005.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. Basic Writing as a Political Act: Public Conversations about
Writing and Literacies. Creskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2002.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Gregory Glau, eds. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing.
New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2002. (2nd ed, 2005)
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington, eds. Questioning Authority: Stories Told In School. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2001.
Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, eds. Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Higher Education/NCTE, 1997.
Articles and Book Chapters
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "The WPA as Activist: Systematic Strategies for Framing, Action, and Representation." In Shirley Rose and Irwin Weiser, eds. Going Public: The WPA as Advocate for Engagement. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2010. 216-236.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "The Activist Academic: Teaching Writing (and Communication) as Public Work." In Beyond the Ivory Tower: Essays in Honor of Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia. Spokane: Marquette Books. 73-82.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. "Building Community Through Writing Program Assessment." In Bob Broad, Ed. Organic Writing Assessment: Theory Into Practice. Utah State University Press, 2009. 14-35.
Janangelo, Joseph and Linda Adler-Kassner. "Common Denominators and the Ongoing Culture of Assessment." In Marie C. Paretti and Katrina M. Powell, Assessment of Writing. Assessment in the Disciplines series, v. 4. Tallahassee, FL: Association for Institutional Research, 2009. 11-33.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda, Chris Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard. "Framing Plagiarism." In Carolyn Eisner and Martha Vicinus, Eds. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Collection. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2008. 231-246.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. "In the Here and Now: Public Policy and Basic Writing" Journal of Basic Writing (Spring 2007): 27-48. (Invited submission)
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. "Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom." WPA Journal (Fall/Winter 2007): 35-47.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. "Reaching Out from the Writing Classroom: Research Writing as a Situated, Public Act." In Writing in Context(s): Textual Practices and Learning Processes in Sociocultural Settings, ed. Triantafillia Kostouli. New York: Springer, 2005. 229-246.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. "Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field." In The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement, ed. Susanmarie Harrington et al.
Logan: Utah State UP, 2005. 60-71.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. "Rethinking Researched Writing: Public Literacy in the Composition Classroom." WPA Journal 26.3 (Spring 2003): 119-131.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Literacy, Ecology, and 'At-Risk' Students: A Report from the Other Side." English Education (October 2002): 89-95.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Race in Class: Students, Teaching, and Stories." Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom. Dawn Skorczewski and Matthew Parfitt, eds. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 2002: 69-80.
Gray-Rosendale, Laura and Linda Adler-Kassner, et. al. "Basic Writing’s Past, Present, and Future: A Discussion of Problems and Possibilities." Composition Studies (Fall 2001): 37-70.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Structure and Possibility: New Scholarship about Students-Called-Basic-Writers." College English (November 2000): 229-243.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "'Just Writing, Basically:' Basic Writers on Basic Writing." Journal of Basic Writing (Fall 1999): 69-90. Reprinted in Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2002.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. Cyberbrief: "Incorporating Service-Learning Into the Composition Classroom." Cyberbriefs for New Teachers. (Invited publication). Cyberbriefs: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999; reprinted in Reflections 1.1 (1999): 14-15.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda, Tom Reynolds, and Robert DelMas. "Studying a Basic Writing Program: Problems and Possibilities." Research and Teaching in Developmental Education (1999): 33-40.
*Harrington, Susanmarie and Linda Adler-Kassner. "'The Dilemma That Still Counts:' Basic Writing at a Political Crossroads.” Journal of Basic Writing (Fall 1998): 1-24.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "The Shape of the Form: Working Class Students and the Academic Essay." In Teaching Working Class, ed. Sherry Linkon. Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 1999: 85-105.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "'Why Won’t You Just Read It?': Children, Comic Books, and Community in 1950s" America." Reader (Spring 1998): 83-97.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Ownership Revisited: An Exploration in Progressive and Expressivist Composition" Scholarship." College Composition and Communication 49, 2 (May 1998): 208-233.
Guest Editor, Reader. Special issue on reader response-based approaches to popular culture research. (Spring 1998).
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Tom Reynolds. "Computers, Reading, and Basic Writers: On-Line Strategies for Helping Students with Academic Texts." Teaching English in the Two-Year College (October 1996):170-178.
*Adler-Kassner, Linda and Terence Collins. "Arts Internships as Transition Experiences for At-Risk Students." Proceedings of the National Conference for Developmental Education (January 1996).
*Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Reading Progress: Historians and Public Literacy in the Progressive Era." Paradigm 18 (December 1995): 12-28.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Digging a Groundwork for Writing: Community Service Courses and Underprepared Students." Interchange, College Composition and Communication 46, 4 (December 1995): 552-555.
Selected Conference Presentations
Reframing 'Accountability': Responsibility and 21st Century Writing Assessment - Presenter
Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Louisville, KY March 2010
Isness/Oughtness: Embracing Contraries and Taking Action - Respondent (and Panel Chair)
Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association
Philadelphia, PA December 2009
Engaging Parents in Literacy Learning - Presenter
National Council of Teachers of English
Philadelphia, PA November 2009
Reframing Writing Assessment - Presenter and Chair March 2009
Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, CA
Reframing Writing Assessment: Accountability, Transparency, Consistency - Presenter and Chair
Annual Meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators July 2008
Denver, CO
Changing Stories through Film - Presenter and Chair
Annual Meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators July 2008
Denver, CO
A Sense of Where You Are: Policy Challenges and Responsibilities - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication
New Orleans, LA April 2008
The Shape of Things to Come: Higher Education in the Aftermath of the Spellings Commission Report -
Presenter
Featured presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication
New Orleans, LA April 2008
Reading, Writing: The Movies! - Presenter and Chair
Featured presentation, National Council of Teachers of English November 2007
New York, NY
Framing Education: The Spellings Commission Report - Presenter
Featured presentation, National Council of Teachers of English November 2007
New York, NY
Strategic Planning of a Different Kind: Developing Relationships Through WPA Work - Presenter
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ July 2007
Toward a National Conversation on Writing - Presenter and Chair
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ July 2007
Enacting DCM for Community-Based Assessment - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY March 2007
Dynamic Criteria Mapping and Writing Assessment - Presenter
National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN November 2006
Working from a Point of Principle - Presenter and Chair
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Chattanooga, TN July 2006
Building Community through Writing Program Assessment - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL March 2006
Framing the SAT Writing Exam - Presenter
Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association
Washington, D.C. December 2005
Representations of Students, Technology, and Writing in News Stories about Plagiarism - Presenter
Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
Ann Arbor, MI September 2005
Writing about Writing for Non-Writing Audiences - Presenter July 2005
Annual meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators,
Anchorage, AK
Situating Reading in the Writing Classroom- Presenter and Chair March 2005
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
San Francisco, CA
Multigenre Reading - Presenter and Chair
Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, IN November 2004
Possibilities of Being Proactive - Presenter and Chair July 2004
Annual meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Newark, DE
Multigenre Teaching - Presenter March 2004
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
San Antonio, TX
Collaborating Across Boundaries: The Inside-Out Project - Presenter and Chair November 2003
Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA
Writing Across Programs at Eastern Michigan University - Presenter and Chair July 2003
Annual conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Grand Rapids, MI
Collaboration and Consensus - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY March 2003
Reaching Out from the Writing Program - Presenter and Chair
Annual conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators
Park City, UT July 2002
Activist Writing Program Administration - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL March 2002
Student Self-Positioning in the Basic Writing Classroom - Presenter
Bi-annual Meeting of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands July 2001
Working from Strength: Commenting on Student Writing from a Non-Deficit Perspective - Presenter
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO March 2001
Rethinking Basic Writing - Presenter
Fourth Global Conference on Language and Literacy, Utrecht, The Netherlands August 2000
Defining Basic Writing in Basic Writing Programs - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN April 2000
Examining ‘Basic Writing’ in Basic Writing Courses and Syllabi - Presenter
Annual conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, West Lafayette, IN July 1999
Basic Writers on Basic Writers - Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA March 1999
“Same Old Story?” What the ‘Academic Essay’ Is in Progressive, Expressivist, and Contemporary Composition Textbooks – Presenter and Chair
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL April 1998
Students on the Students’ Right: The Subjects Speak - Presenter November 1997
National Council of Teachers of English, Detroit, MI
Service Learning: Laying the Foundations for a Successful Course - Presenter March 1997
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ
Do I Have to Read This?: Basic Writing Students and Complex Reading - Presenter March 1996
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI
'Why Won't You Just Read It?': E.C. Comic Books and Community in the 1950s - Presenter August 1995
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.
Multiple Literacies: History Textbooks and Meaning" - Presenter March1995
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C.
Reading Progress: Historians and Literacy in the Progressive Era - Presenter March 1994
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN
Contested Ground: Points of Confluence and Divergence in the Literacy Histories April 1993
of Writing Students and Their Teachers - Presenter
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA
Selected Workshops
Shaping Stories, Shaping Programs
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA March 2009
Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action – Presenter
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY March 2008
Developing the Network for Media Action/National Conversation on Writing
Conference on College Composition and Communication March 2006, 2007
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference July 2006, 2007
Media Strategies for Composition Work – organizer and facilitator July 2004; March 2005
(CCCC and WPA)
Conference on Basic Writing Pre-Conference CCCC Workshop – co-facilitator 1999-2002
Service-Learning in the Basic Writing Class March 1999
Conference on Basic Writing Pre-Conference Workshop
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA
Consulting/Invited Presentations/Workshops
Responsibility and Visibility: Reframing Accountability in Assessment
Developing End-of-Year Celebrations for Writing Programs January 2010
Invited workshops, Youngstown State University
Using Writing for Assessment/Dynamic Criteria Mapping
Invited workshops, University of New Mexico April 2009
Community-based Writing Program Assessment
Invited workshop, AAC&U Assessment Conference February 2009
Baltimore, MD
Teaching Writing (and Communication) as Public Acts
Invited presentation, Symposium Honoring Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia September 2008
Advocacy in Troubling Times: Assessment and the Work of First Year Writing
Invited workshop, Bedford-St. Martins Composition Symposium, University of Pittsburgh September 2006
Assessment and Framing the Work of First-Year Writing
Invited workshop, Bedford-St. Martins Publishers October 2006
Communicating with Publics September 2005
Teaching Composition Listserv leader
Reaching Out Through Research Writing
Teaching Composition Listserv leader March 2003
Using Portfolios for Basic Writing Courses September 2002
Workshop, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Compositions and Contexts
Keynote presentation, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Detroit, MI January 2001
Class and Composition
Invited workshop, Center for Working Class Studies Conference, Youngstown, OH June 1999
Service Learning: Complications and Contexts February 1999
Keynote presentation, Syracuse University Spring Conference
Integrating Service-Learning in the Classroom
Invited workshop, Minnesota Campus Compact, Minneapolis, MN November 1998
Selected (Attributed) Publications for Broader Audiences
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. “Reframing the Accountability Debate.” Inside Higher Education (April 23, 2009). http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/04/23/adler
Adler-Kassner, Linda. “My Turn.” Exemplar magazine (2006).
Selected Workshops
Eastern Michigan University
Writing Across the Curriculum Summer Workshop 2006, 2007, 2009, 2009, 2010
Commenting on Student Writing April 2006
Making “Plagiarism” a Non-Issue March 2005, January 2006, February 2006
Talking about Writing in the Writing Classroom January 2004
Using Reading in the Composition Classroom September 2003
Developing Proposals for CCCC January 2002, October 2005
First-Year Writing at EMU – WAC Summer Institute July 2001, 2002, 2003
Co-Facilitator, Summer Institute on the First-Year Experience May 2001
Commenting on Student Writing
Faculty Center for Instructional Effectiveness, February 2001
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Using technology in the classroom at University of Michigan-Dearborn August 1999
Working with Students in the Writing Center/Tutoring Students in Math and Writing
Workshop for Writing Center and Math Resource Center consultants
University of Michigan-Dearborn September 1999
What Junior Faculty Should Know about Teaching at University of Michigan-Dearborn August 1998
Putting Your Course On-Line/Using Computers in the Writing Classroom August 1998
University of Michigan-Dearborn
TEACHING AND ADVISING
Courses Taught - Eastern Michigan University
English 592 – Public Policy, Writing Instruction, and Public Writing
English 596 – Teaching Composition at the College Level
English 592/585 – Teaching Basic Writing at the College Level
English 121 – Composition II: Researching the Public Experience
English 328 – Writing, Style, and Technology
English 621 – Research Methods
(multiple sections of most courses)
Courses Taught - University of Michigan-Dearborn
Composition 099 – basic writing
Distance Education Composition 099 (Asynchronous, on-line course offered as part of on-line degree
program for auto workers in six states)
Composition 105 – Composition I
Composition 106 – Composition II
Composition 220 – Honors Composition II
Liberal Studies 566 – Investigating Academic Literacy (course in M.A. in Liberal Studies program)
English 327 – Advanced Expository Writing
Courses Taught - University of Minnesota-General College
Basic Writing/Educational Issues: Basic Writing/Communicating in Society:
Language and Education Writing about Popular Culture
Literacy and Education Media Literacy
Case Studies in Education Evaluating Community Service Organizations
Writing for Community Service Organizations
Graduate Advising
Director of 25 M.A. projects (Eastern Michigan University)
Member of 3 Ph.D. committees (Syracuse University, Wayne State University, University of California, Santa Barbara)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Service to the Profession
President, Council of Writing Program Administrators 2009-2011
Vice President, Council of Writing Program Administrators 2007-2009
Member, NCTE Nominating Committee 2006
Member, English Language Arts Standards Revision Committee (State of Michigan) 2005
Member, CCCC Research Grants Committee 2005
Executive Board Member, Council for Writing Program Administrators 2002-2005
Chair, WPA Media Committee 2003-2004
Coordinator, WPA Network for Media Action 2004-2008
Member, WPA Plagiarism Task Force; collaborative co-author, “Defining and Avoiding
Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices” 2002-2003
Member, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) VALUE Writing Rubric Team 2009
Co-Chair, WPA-NCTE Ad Hoc Joint Task Force on Assessment 2007-
Representative/participant, U.S. Department of Education Regional Hearings on Spellings Commission Report on the Future of Higher Education (Kansas City, MO) 2007
Mentor/Leader, Academy for Assessment of Student Learning, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities 2007-
Stage one proposal reviewer, CCCC 1994, 2003-2006, 2009, 2010
Online Coach, CCCC 2007, 2008, 2009
Co-Chair, Conference on Basic Writing 1998-2002
Executive Board member, Conference on Basic Writing 1995-2002
Member, CCCC Nominating Committee 1999-2000
Co-editor, Basic Writing e-Journal (BWe) 1999-2002
Featured presenter, Take 20 (Bedford-St. Martin’s professional development video) 2007
Editorial Board Memberships
Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series (Southern Illinois UP)
Journal of Basic Writing
Composition Studies
WPA Journal
In Review
Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Learning
Tenure case reviewer
Metropolitan State University
Beloit College
Arizona State University
University of Nebraska-Omaha
University of Minnesota
Manuscript reviewer
College Composition and Communication
College English
Journal of Advanced Composition
Journal of Basic Writing
Composition Studies
English Education
WPA Journal
St. Martin’s Press
National Council of Teachers of English Press
SUNY Press
Utah State University Press
W.W. Norton
Bedford St. Martins
University of California, Santa Barbara
Faculty Senate Council on Research and Instructional Practices
Educational Effectiveness in Undergraduate Programs Committee
Eastern Michigan University
University Service
Member, University Retention Council 2006-2009
Member, General Education Assessment Committee 2006-2010
Member, Undergraduate Advisory Board 2000-2008
Member, Undergraduate Experience Cross-Cutting Strategic Planning Committee 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Member, PASS Committee 2001-2002
Co-Facilitator, Community College Composition/Transfer Articulation Workshop 2002
Presenter/facilitator, New Student Orientation 2001-2004
Member, Teaching and Learning Resource Team 2000-2002,2004-5
Writing Consultant, Student Success Office 2001
Co-Coordinator, AQIP General Education Assessment Team 2006-8
Member, General Education Assessment Committee 2006-2009
Coordinator, McAndless Scholar visit 2006
Member, Carnegie Institutional Leadership Team 2006-2009
New Faculty Mentor 2004-2010
Departmental Service
Member, Curriculum Committee 2004-2008
Faculty Council Representative 2006
Coordinator, English Department Program Review 2004
Member, Graduate Committee 2000-2003
Member, Writing Committee 2000-2010
Chair, First-Year Writing Committee 2000-2010
Member, Department Coordinating Committee 2000-2010
Member, English Department Strategic Planning Committee 2000-2001, 2002-
Member, WAC search committee 2000-2001; 2001-2002
Panel organizer, chair, and presenter, English Department Diversity
Conference 2000
Panel organizer, chair, and presenter, English Department “Teaching Across
Boundaries” conference 2003, 2004, 2005,2006
University of Michigan-Dearborn
University Service
Co-Chair, Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable 1998-1999
Faculty Senate Diversity Committee 1999-2000
Member, Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable 1997-2000
Departmental Service
Member, Composition/Linguistics tenure-line Search Committee 1998-1999
Chair, Composition/Linguistics tenure-line Search Committee 1999-2000
Film Studies Advisory Committee 1997-2000
Composition Advisory Committee 1997-2000
University of Minnesota-General College Service
Mentor for Graduate Teaching Assistants, General College 1994-1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant Search Committee, General College Writing Program 1994-1996
Continuing Education and Extension Search Committee, General College 1992-1994
Service to the Community
Tutor trainer, 826 Michigan (non-profit writing tutoring/workshop center) 2004-
Member, 826 Michigan Board of Directors 2006-
Writing coach, Jewish Cultural Society of Ann Arbor 2000-
Board member, Jewish Cultural Society of Ann Arbor 2004-2006
Independent directed study, Community High School, Ann Arbor 1999-2000
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Eastern Michigan University
Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Service to the University Award 2009
Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave 2006-2007
Graduate School Research Grant 2005
Women of Excellence Award 2003
Distinguished Faculty Award, Division of Student Affairs 2002, 2005, 2006
Josephine Keal Development Fund Grant 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009
“Exceptional Contribution to Students at EMU” - recognition by EMU Ambassadors 2002
Strategic Planning Initiative: Inside-Out Project 2001-2007
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Provost’s Support Grants (2) 1999
Faculty Research Assistant Grant 1999
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters Immersion Grant 1997-1998
Horace H. Rackham Faculty Research Fellowship 1997-1998