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Previous Affiliates

Hub Affiliates never stop being our partners but the year of their particular projects do come and go. On this page we honor our Hub Affiliates from the past two years or greater.

2024 Affiliates

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    Helet Botha
    Helet Botha is an Assistant Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the UM-Dearborn College of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia (2019), and does research at… Read More »Helet Botha
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    Shelly Jarenski
    Shelly is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Affiliate Faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, African and African American Studies, and the Foundations Programs at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The focus of her… Read More »Shelly Jarenski
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    Wessam Elmeleigi
    Dr. Wessam Elmeleigi is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the Department of Language, Culture, and the Arts, and the Director of the Center for Arab American Studies, as well as the director of the… Read More »Wessam Elmeleigi

2023 Affiliates

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    Amy Brainer
    Amy is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her Hub affiliate project is on teaching and learning under the conditions of political backlash to critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. The project focuses on how to preserve our learning communities and our collective wellbeing when… Read More »Amy Brainer
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    Bruce Maxim
    Dr. Bruce R. Maxim is Professor of Computer and Information Science and theNarasimhamurthi “Nattu” Natarajan Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University ofMichigan – Dearborn. His research interests include software engineering, user experiencedesign, serious game development, extended reality, artificial intelligence, and computereducation. His recent research publications have been in the areas of serious game development,… Read More »Bruce Maxim

2022 Affiliates

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    Emily Luxon
    Emily’s Affiliate project is focused on building campus practices around PBL and ungrading (separately and together). Both of these pedagogical approaches are learning centered, and focused on designing learning experiences so that… Read More »Emily Luxon
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    Grace Helms Kotre
    Grace Helms Kotre (she/her), MSW, is a lecturer teaching courses in stress management and social work in the Department of Health & Human Services at UM-Dearborn. She also serves as a lecturer… Read More »Grace Helms Kotre
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    Jill Darling
    Jill Darling (she/her) is a Lecturer II teaching composition & rhetoric and creative writing at UM-Dearborn, and has long been interested in critical and student-centered pedagogy, equity, access, and inclusion. Her project… Read More »Jill Darling
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    Patrick Beauchesne
    I am an associate professor of anthropology in the department of Behavioral Sciences here at UM Dearborn. I am a biological anthropologist by training and my work has emphasized how culture and… Read More »Patrick Beauchesne

2021 Affiliates

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    Alan Wiggins
    Alan’s affiliate project is centered on Open Educational Resources (OER)! He is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, an OER adopter since 2017, a creator of modest amounts of… Read More »Alan Wiggins
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    Carmel Price
    Carmel’s Affiliate project focuses on supporting working-class students. Her project is rooted in her research on food insecurity on college campuses, which is grounded inliterature on how college often exacerbates inequality (instead of… Read More »Carmel Price
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    Katie La Commare
    I am a Lecturer in Biology in the Department of Natural Sciences here at UM Dearborn. For my affiliate project, I will be exploring how case studies in combination with authentic assessment can… Read More »Katie La Commare
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    Maya Barak
    I am an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Studies and affiliate of Women’s and Gender Studies and Arab American Studies, as well as Director of the Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal… Read More »Maya Barak
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    Michael MacDonald
    Mike’s Affiliate project explores the concept of “labor-based grading,” or “ungrading,” as some call it. In an effort to address issues of accessibility, anti-racist teaching practices, and student-centered pedagogy, labor-based grading methods can… Read More »Michael MacDonald