Core Faculty & Learning Team Facilitators
The institute was led by CTE faculty as well as several highly experienced facilitators from UVA and other institutions with diverse backgrounds and pedagogical interests.
John Alexander, Information Technology Services, UVA
John is a UVA Collab Support Specialist in Information Technology Services. This work necessitates his immersion in many interesting projects at the University, a prospect not unlike the proverbial briar patch. John’s educational background in the humanities, his experience teaching at four institutions of higher education, and his experiences as a general manager at UVA for over 40 years have almost prepared him for these responsibilities.
Since 2012, John has been an active member of an intentionally diverse group of volunteers, Hoos Brave, offering highly interactive workshops on diversity and inclusion.
Dorothe Bach, Center for Teaching Excellence, UVA
Dorothe is the associate director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence and holds a Ph.D. in German Literature. Growing up in Germany, her interest in addressing intergenerational trauma and injustice has deep biographical roots and has shaped her teaching and educational development work. Particular pedagogical interests include inclusive course design, relational imagination, reflective practice, and student-faculty partnerships for learning. She has co-taught undergraduate courses for Comparative Literature, German, Religious Studies, Nursing, and Psychology and regularly facilitates faculty development workshops nationally and internationally. Dorothe looks forward to learning from you and her co-facilitators.
Rose Buckelew, Sociology, UVA
Rose is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at UVA. She holds a doctorate from Duke, having specialized in the sociology of race and racism. Her research explores the role of race in the social construction of crime and safety and she teaches courses on racism and crime. In her teaching, she is committed to crafting and implementing an intentionally anti-racist pedagogy that de-centers whiteness in the classroom and builds course learning centered on principles of Black feminist and Chicanx pedagogy. Her experiences as a first-generation college student and Chicana inform her teaching and approach to research. She looks forward to joining this learning community at UVA.
Elizabeth Dickens, Center for Teaching Excellence, UVA
Elizabeth is an assistant director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence. She leads the CTE’s curriculum design work and is particularly interested in the structural and systemic contexts that affect what happens in the classroom: from intra-institutional connections such as those between individual courses and the wider curricula, or between academic and student affairs, to the broad and deep-rooted inequities that characterize the entire higher education landscape. Her Ph.D. is in English Literature, and this disciplinary imprinting has made her especially interested in pedagogies in the humanities. She regularly teaches undergraduate literature courses that address intersections of gender, sexuality, and race alongside valuations of cultural and knowledge production.
Tabitha Enoch, Office of the Dean of Students, UVA
Tabitha serves as an Associate Dean of Students in the Office of the Dean of Students, helping to shape the diversity and inclusion efforts of the Student Affairs Division and providing support to UVA’s first-generation and low income students. In her previous roles as Assistant Dean in the Office of the Dean of Students and Director of Orientation and New Student Programs, she worked to develop an inclusive and welcoming experience for new undergraduates with a team of student leaders. Tabitha and her team worked on Summer Orientation, Wahoo Welcome, Opening Convocation and Honor Induction, Grounds for Discussion (a peer-theater production), Transfer Student Programming, and Family Weekend. Tabitha is also part of the Hoos Brave crew.
Emily O. Gravett, Religious Studies & Center for Faculty Innovation, JMU
Emily is an assistant director in the Center for Faculty Innovation and an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. An alumna of UVA, she earned her doctorate in Religious Studies in 2013. Since joining the faculty at JMU, Emily has been involved in a number of initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, such as co-creating and co-facilitating an annual institute on Preparing Faculty to Be Inclusive Teachers. She routinely publishes on gender, sexuality, and disability--and integrates difficult conversations about identity, position, privilege, and marginalization into her teaching. She is grateful for the opportunity to explore thorny but beautiful topics with her committed colleagues.
Claudrena Harold, History, UVA
Claudrena is a professor at UVA, where she teaches courses in labor history, African American history, and Black Studies. In 2007, she published her first book, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942. Her latest monograph, New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2016. In 2018, she co-edited the volume Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity.
As a part of her ongoing work on the history of black student activism at UVA, she has written, produced, and co-directed with Kevin Everson eight short films, which have screened at the National Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum, Berlin International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Black Star Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Filmadrid International Film Festival, and TIFF Lightbox.
Cortney McEniry, UVA Acts, UVA
Cortney is an applied theatre facilitator and community-based artist whose practice centers on facilitating agentive, asset-based artistic processes alongside communities. At UVA, she writes, directs, and facilitates all UVA Acts programming. In Milwaukee, WI, Cortney was the Director of Community Engagement at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and served as an instructor for the Student Artists in Residence program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before that, Cortney was in Austin, TX, where she was a teaching artist and facilitator for the Performing Justice Project, Drama for Schools, and Theatre for Dialogue program of Voices Against Violence, a nationally recognized violence prevention program.
Carl S. Moore, UDC
Carl is the Assistant Chief Academic Officer at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). He also serves as Certificate Faculty in Temple University’s Teaching in Higher Education Certificate program and Teaching Faculty for USC’s Equity Institute. He has taught and is frequently an invited speaker and consultant on inclusion, leadership, faculty development, course design, teaching with technology, and other teaching- and learning-related topics. He has taught graduate courses on urban education, social policy, foundations of American education, and teaching in higher ed. He has also taught undergraduate courses on youth cultures, service learning, and college success strategies.
Diane Ober, UVA Hoos Brave
Diane has had a varied 40-year career in a variety of disciplines. She is recently retired from a 17-year career at UVA with the last 8 years as a Learning and Development Specialist. Prior to UVA, she had careers in community-based and state corrections, small business ownership, and as a religious educator. Her continued passion in creating curriculum and leading facilitation around diversity issues reflects her dedication to a lifelong learning about white privilege and systemic racism. She continues to be an active member of Hoos Brave, offering workshops on diversity and inclusion at UVA.
Joshua Streeter, Theater Education, JMU
Joshua is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Education at James Madison University. His scholarship analyzes the pedagogies used in rehearsals and classrooms and considers the relationship between process and product in a learning experience. Joshua’s work centers on drama pedagogy, critical pedagogy, embodied learning, curriculum design and instruction, and early childhood education. Joshua was one of the twelve writers for the National Core Arts Theatre Standards and has worked as a consultant for numerous state departments of education. He is a proud graduate of Millikin University, Emerson College, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Adriana Streifer, Center for Teaching Excellence, UVA
Adriana is an assistant director at UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence and an assistant professor. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature. At the CTE, she has designed and facilitated workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching, and has led a discussion group for graduate students devoted to defining and problematizing those terms and their usage within the higher education landscape. As an educational developer, teacher, and researcher, Adriana is motivated by a desire to challenge and undo structures of marginalization and inequity in education. She teaches undergraduate literature and writing courses on race and religion in early modern drama, and women dramatists and feminist theater.