Past Adams Academy Fellows

2024-2025 Adams Academy

  • Isola Brown
    Assistant Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine
    browniso@msu.edu
  • Rebecca Gonzalez Cifaldi
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
    cifaldi2@msu.edu
  • Laura MacDonald
    Assistant Professor, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
  • Scott Matteson
    Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
    mattes25@msu.edu
  • Nick Schumacher
    Assistant Professor, College of Music
    schum161@msu.edu
  • Barret Wessel
    Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
    wesselba@msu.edu

2023-2024 Adams Academy

  • Andrea Bierema
    Specialist, College of Education
    abierema@msu.edu
  • Kelley Blanck
    Instructor-Fixed Term, College of Social Science
    kblanck@msu.edu
  • Eddie Boucher
    Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
    bouche50@msu.edu
  • Julie Christensen
    Instructor, College of Human Medicine
    jachris@msu.edu
  • Kathryn Clements
    Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
    vadnais3@msu.edu
  • Karenanna Creps
    Assistant Professor Fixed Term College of Education
    kcreps@msu.edu
  • Karen Kangas-Preston
    Senior Academic Specialist, College of Arts & Letters
    kangaspr@msu.edu
  • Robey Shah
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
    rshah@msu.edu

2022-2023 Adams Academy

2021-2022 Adams Academy

  • Piril Atabay
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Pia Banzhaf
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Tyler Becker
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Lorelei Blackburn
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Brandy Ellison
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Social Science
  • Nicole Geske
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Sadam Issa
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Raven Jones Stanbrough
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Education
  • Marty Jordan
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Social Science
  • Jiahang Li
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Education
  • Garth Sabo
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
    sabogart@msu.edu
  • Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Natural Science

2020-2021 Adams Academy

  • Jameel Al-Haddad
    Instructor Fixed-Term, College of Natural Science
  • George H. Berghorn
    Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Alissa Cohen
    Academic Specialist-Teaching, College of Arts and Letters
    cohenal@msu.edu
  • Roozbeh Dargazany
    Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
  • Allison Eden
    Associate Professor, Communication Department, Michigan State University
  • Crystal L. Eustice, Ph.D.
    Academic Specialist-Teaching, Agriculture and Natural Resources
    mill1879@msu.edu
  • Fayyaz Hussain
    Associate Professor, College of Social Science
  • Huey-Wen Lin
    Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science
  • Nicole McCleese
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts and Letters
  • Amol Pavangadkar
    Senior Specialist and Professor of Practice, School of Journalism
  • Rajiv Ranjan
    Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts and Letters
  • Catherine Ryu
    Associate Professor of Japanese Language & Culture and Director of the Japanese Studies Program, Michigan State University
  • Alyssa Winslow
    Academic Specialist and Advisor, Veterinary Nursing Program

2019-2020 Adams Academy

  • Denise Acevedo
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Saul Beceiro-Novo
    Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science
  • Marisa Brandt
    Academic Specialist, Lyman Briggs
  • Dustin DuFort Petty
    Academic Advisor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Mehrnaz Ghamami
    Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
  • Ricardo Guimaraes
    Academic Specialist, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
  • Troy Hale
    Professor of Practice/Senior Specialist, School of Journalism
  • Lindsey Jenny
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Juli Liebler
    Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
  • Sarah Prior
    Associate Professor, Sociology, College of Social Science
    priorsar@msu.edu
  • Marty Spranger
    Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science

2018-2019 Adams Academy

  • Kate Birdsall
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Kevin Brooks
    Academic Specialist for Diversity and Civic Engagement, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
  • Casey Henley
    Director of Online Programs & Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program, College of Natural Science
  • Bree F. Holtz
    Assistant Professor, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
    bholtz@msu.edu
  • Yore Kedem
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Wei Li
    Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Kristen Mapes
    Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
  • Emilia Marcyk
    Instructional Technology/Teaching & Learning Librarian, MSU Libraries
  • Deric McNish
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Geoffrey Recktenwald
    Academic Specialist – Teaching, College of Engineering
  • Daniel Smith
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Jonathan Weaver
    Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
    weaver71@msu.edu

2017-2018 Adams Academy

  • Kathy Forrest, MSN, MA, RN
    Instructor, Coordinator of Professional Programs, College of Nursing
  • Peter Hoffman
    Instructor, English Language Center, College of Arts & Letters
  • Xinqiang Li
    Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, College of Arts & Letters
  • Ryan Maccombs
    Academic Specialist, Teaching, Mathematics, College of Natural Science
  • Adán Quan
    Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Social Science
  • Tsveta Sendova
    Director, Math Learning Center, College of Natural Science
  • Erica Shifflet-Chila
    Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator of Academic Technology, School of Social Work, College of Social Science
  • Laura Smith
    Assistant Professor, Art, Art History and Design, College of Arts & Letters
  • Ryan Tubbs
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Ben Van Dyke
    Associate Professor, Art, Art History and Design, College of Arts & Letters
  • Bei Zhang
    Academic Specialist, Biomedical Diagnostics Laboratory, College of Human Medicine

2016-2017 Adams Academy

  • Nicolas Gisholt
    Academic Specialist, Center for Integrative Studies, College of Social Science
  • Kathryn Houghton
    Academic Specialist, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, College of Arts and Letters
  • Patrick Johnson
    Instructor, Music Theory, College of Music
  • Rachel Morris
    Academic Specialist, Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics, College of Natural Science
  • Shawna-Marie Nantais
    Academic Specialist, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Natural Science; College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Lynn Nee
    Clinical Instructor, Social Work, College of Social Science
  • Michaela Oldfield
    Academic Specialist, Food, Science and Human Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Amy Radford-Popp
    Assistant Director, Residential Business Program Community, Broad College of Business
  • Michael Ristich
    Academic Specialist-Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, College of Arts and Letters
  • Ronald Stokes-Schwartz
    Academic Specialist, Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Letters
  • Arthur Ward
    Academic Specialist, History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Lyman Briggs College
  • Mary Wever
    Academic Specialist, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, College of Education

2015-2016 Adams Academy

  • Irma Bartolo
    Instructor, College of Arts and Letters
  • Samantha Cass
    Academic Specialist, Lyman Briggs College
  • Frances Pouch Downes
    Professor, College of Natural Science
  • Maddalena Fanelli
    Academic Teaching Specialist, College of Engineering
  • Benjamin Oberdick
    Librarian II/ Head of Information Literacy, MSU Libraries

2014-2015 Adams Academy

  • William Arnold
    Assistant Professor-Fixed Term, College of Education, Department of Educational Administration
  • Carmen Delorenzo
    Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Monaca Eaton
    Academic Specialist, College of Social Science
  • Taylor Epp
    Instructor, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Laura Genik
    Academic Specialist, College of Engineering
  • Christopher Kaiser
    Academic Specialist, College of Education
  • Stephanie LaRose
    Associate Clinical Professor, College of Law
  • Jane Merrills
    Assistant Professor-Fixed Term, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Kirsten Parkin
    Assistant Professor-Fixed Term, College of Human Medicine
  • Patricia Rogers
    Assistant Professor-Tenure System, Residential College in Arts and Humanities
  • Mary Smania
    Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

2013-2014 Adams Academy

  • Jana Aupperlee
    Assistant Professor, College of Education, Counseling, Education Psychology and Special Education (CEPSE)
  • Adele Denison
    Associate Professor, College of Natural Science-Physiology
  • Julie Farman
    Clinical Instructor, College of Social Science, Social Work
  • Helen Mayer
    Instructor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Technology
  • B. Nadine Roya
    Academic Specialist, College of Arts and Letters, English Language Center
  • Patricia Thurston
    Academic Specialist, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • Valeta Wensloff
    Academic Specialist, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media

2012-2013 Adams Academy

  • Leah Holck Addis
    Specialist / Teaching, College of Arts & Letters
  • Adolfo Ausín
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Jan Bukovac-Phelps
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences (now CAS)
  • Cheryl Caesar
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Maxine Davis
    Academic Specialist, Lyman Briggs College
  • Michael Everett
    Academic Teaching Specialist, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Dawnmarie Ezzo
    Instructor, College of Education
  • Diane Fischer
    Specialist / Instructor, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Jessica C. Garcia
    Visiting Professor, College of Social Science
  • Margo Glew
    Academic Specialist (Curriculum Development), College of Education
  • Sue McQuiston
    Instructor, College of Natural Science
  • Elizabeth Petsche
    Assistant Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Jennifer Rosa
    Associate Clinical Professor, College of Law
  • Debra Stieve
    DNP Instructor, College of Nursing
  • Laura Symonds
    Assistant Professor, Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, College of Natural Science

2011-2012 Adams Academy

  • Linda Campbell
    Instructor, School of Social Work
  • Stacy Hickox
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Social Science
  • Elizabeth Karcher
    Academic Specialist, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Sharon Ladenson
    Librarian II/Gender Studies and Communications Librarian, Department of Libraries, Computing, & Technology
  • Anthony Paganini
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Delores F. Rauscher
    Fixed-Term Instructor, College of Arts & Letters
  • Jennifer Rumler
    Academic Specialist, Managing Director, Sales Communication Specialization, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
  • Jon R. Stoltzfus
    Instructor, College of Natural Science
  • Judith L. Strunk
    Instructor, College of Nursing
  • Chrysoula Vasileiou
    Academic Specialist, College of Natural Science

2010-2011 Adams Academy

  • April Cognato
    Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science
  • R. Joy Durding
    Instructor, College of Arts and Letters
  • Adrienne Domas Goldsberry
    Instructor and Online Course Coordinator, College of Social Science
  • Justin Longsworth Jagger
    Academic Specialist, Eli Broad College of Business
  • Deanne Lawrence
    Associate Clinical Professor of Law, College of Law
  • James Lucas
    Curriculum Specialist, Undergraduate Education/College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Marci Mechtel
    Instructor, College of Nursing
  • Amy Pollock
    Academic Specialist, College of Natural Science
  • William Raphael
    Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Abdul Salau
    Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters
  • Wilma Novales Wibert
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Communication Arts and Sciences

2009-2010 Adams Academy

  • Heidi Bulich
    Assistant Professor, Eli Broad College of Business
  • Robert A. Chalou
    Academic Specialist, College of Engineering
  • Gary Ferenchick
    Associate Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Syed Waqar Haider
    Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
  • David Kozishek
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Tammy M. Long
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Natural Sciences
  • Karen T. Mills
    Academic Specialist, College of Social Sciences
  • Phillip D. Schertzing
    Academic Specialist, College of Social Sciences
  • Sandhya Shanker
    Coordinator for French, College of Arts and Letters
  • Steve Sharra
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters
  • Elizabeth Spence
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters
  • Amy Yang
    Assistant Professor, College of Osteopathic and Human Medicine

2008-2009 Adams Academy

  • Sarah Abood
    Assistant Professor/Coordinator, Student Programs, Small Animal Clinical Science
  • Bhavini Bhavsar
    Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Gretchen Clare Dubes
    Instructor, College of Nursing
  • Leigh Graves Wolf
    Instructor/Program Coordinator, College of Education
  • Timothy Hinds
    Academic Specialist, College of Engineering
  • Robyn Mace
    Specialist, School of Criminal Justice
  • Cathleen McGreal
    Associate Professor and Coordinator of Online Programs, College of Social Science
  • Coretta Patterson
    Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Darryll Patterson
    Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine
  • Amber Peters
    Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • David Poulson
    Instructor/Associate Director, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
  • Susan Stein-Roggenbuck
    Visiting Assistant Professor, James Madison College
  • Todd Tarrant
    Senior Academic Specialist/Assistant Director, Center for Integrative Studies–General Science
  • Stephen Thomas
    Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science
  • Korine Wawrzynski
    Specialist/Coordinator, College of Education/Provost’s Office