Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to announce the 2024-25 cohort for the Public Voices Fellowship with the University of Illinois System in its sixth year. The fellowship is a unique opportunity led by The OpEd Project. 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 20 faculty in this cohort will attend four sessions during the 2024-25 academic year and will be paired with a journalism mentor who provides one-on-one editing and coaching, to publish two or more op-ed pieces during the program.
Please join me in congratulating the following faculty who were selected for the 2024-25 program:
Chicago
- Wendy Bostwick, associate professor, population health nursing science, College of Nursing
- Gregory Larnell, associate professor, mathematics education, College of Education
- Teri McMurtry-Chubb, professor of law, director of critical race and gender studies, School of Law
- Sheetal Rao, internal medicine physician and assistant professor, department of medicine, College of Medicine
- Taylor Watterson, assistant professor, department of pharmacy systems, outcomes, and policy, College of Pharmacy
Springfield
- Pamela Twyman Hoff, professor of policy and equity, School of Education
- Youngjin Kang, associate professor, School of Public Management and Policy, College of Public Affairs and Education
- Neeraj Rajasekar, assistant professor, sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Isabel Skinner, assistant professor, School of Politics and International Affairs
Urbana-Champaign
- Annie Abbott, associate teaching professor, director of undergraduate studies, department of Spanish and Portuguese, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
- Rachel Adler, associate professor, School of Information Sciences
- Betsy Brandt, teaching associate professor, department of dance, College of Fine and Applied Arts
- Melita Garza, associate professor, department of journalism, College of Media
- Laurie Ruth Johnson, professor, department of Germanic languages and literatures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, director of Campus Honors Program
- Kyungwon Koh, associate professor, School of Information Sciences
- Meicen Sun, assistant professor, School of Information Sciences
- Stephanie Toliver, assistant professor, department of curriculum and instruction, College of Education
- Smitha Vishveshwara, professor of physics, the Grainger College of Engineering
- Asif Wilson, assistant professor, department of curriculum and instruction, College of Education
- Abigail Wooldridge, assistant professor and faculty fellow, department of industrial and enterprise systems engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Thank you to all who participated in the process, either as nominators or as candidates. We are fortunate to be part of a community with so many dedicated faculty who are interested in furthering their skills as well as making their voices heard.
My office will host the Public Voices Fellowship program again, and I strongly encourage faculty to apply.
Sincerely,
Nicholas P. Jones
Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs