Dr. Christian Selected for 2022-2023 National Public Voices Fellowship Led by OpEd Project

The Public Voices Fellowship (PVF) at the University of Illinois System is part of a prestigious national initiative to change who writes history. The 2022-2023 cohort for the system-wide PVF were announced on September 15 by Avijit Ghosh, executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs for the University of Illinois System.

The PVF is a unique opportunity led by The OpEd Project and designed for tenure-system faculty. The program is part of a national initiative to help faculty amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public conversations about pressing issues. The internationally acclaimed curriculum and method explore leadership, power, and action in an unfair world. Using time tested methods of transformational learning, fellows will explore how credibility works, how ideas spread, when and why minds change, and how ideas play out over time and space. 

Now in its fourth year, the program traditionally hosted 20 slots to tenured faculty. For the first time ever, this year two of those slots were reserved for non-tenured faculty at the three universities, which include the University of Chicago (UIC), University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I/UIUC).  

The faculty chosen for the 2022-2023 cohort includes the following:

Chicago

• Xóchitl Bada, Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Cynthia Blair, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Director of the African American Cultural Center
• Margena Christian, Media Scholar, Journalist, Author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Michael Jin, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History,
  Global Asian Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Julie Maslowsky, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
• Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research
  Associate, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Christine Park, Professor of Anesthesiology and Medical Education,
  College of Medicine
• Laurie Jo Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Art, School of Art and Art History
• Jessica Shaw, Assistant Professor and Community Psychologist, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Springfield

• Jennifer Martin, Associate Professor, School of Education
• Sean McCandless, Assistant Professor, School of Public Management and Policy
• Amy McEuen, Associate Professor, School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health

 Urbana-Champaign

• Catherine Corr, Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
• Marc Doussard, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts
• Leonard McKinnis, Assistant Professor of Religion and Black Studies, Department of Religion and Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Rachel McMillian, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
• Lissette Piedra, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
• Imanni Sheppard, Teaching Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Thread, Medical Education Facilitator, Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
• Helga Varden, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Lesley Wexler, John D. Colombo Professor of Law, College of Law