Faculty Accomplishments March 2023

research presentation
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Rarely do we take time to pause and realize all that we have accomplished. WEST Faculty certainly are an active, dedicated group of scholar-teacher activists!

Dr. Abby Ferber

Presentations

  • “Attacks on Higher Education: Putting The Pieces Together” at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (January 2023)
  • “Autotheory, Autoethnography and Restorative Justice for Sexual Assault” at the Western Social Science Association (2023)

Virtual Transformation in Teaching & Learning Institute - June 14-16, 2023

  • Knapsack Institute - three-day virtual institute that provides the latest knowledge, tools, strategies, and support to build an inclusive and equitable learning and working environment. Anyone following the news knows that Colleges and Universities are under attack for DEI efforts, teaching about race or LGBTIQ+ content, and more. What began as the vilification of Critical Race Theory has expanded. You don’t want to miss this opportunity! *Scholarships available to UCCS Faculty & Staff* – Early bird ends May 1 – don’t delay, apply today!

Dr. Andrea Herrera

Award

  • Heller Center for the Arts and Humanities Inaugural Residency Award

Publications

  • (2022) “Beyond the Boundaries of the Past - The Cartography of Displacement.” Caribbean Quarterly 68(3): 370-381.
  • “Exploring the self-identified mentoring needs of conditionally admitted first-year students” co-authored with S. L. Mendez, et al. Journal of Student Affairs (forthcoming)
  • “A Cuban Portrait” in Cuban Studies (forthcoming)

Presentation

  • “The Matrix Framework: Approaching Privilege & Oppression from an Intersectional Lens” at the Spanish Association for American Studies in Granada, Spain (March 2023)

Dr. Julie Torres

Award

  • UCCS Faculty Revitalization Fellowship Program

Dr. Ilaheva Tua'one 

Publication

  • (2023) “HMS Dolphin: The Ship That Lost Its Integrity and Found the Myth of the Nail.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 56(2): 261-284.

Media Tour

Dr. Tre Wentling

Award

  • UCCS Faculty Revitalization Fellowship Program

Publication

Presentations

  • “The Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ Oral History Project & High-Impact Teaching Practices” UCCS Faculty Resource Center (February 2023)
  • “Critical Race Theory: Pedagogies on Fire” at the American Studies Association (November 2022)

Media