FACETs of Teaching at IU

Michelle J. Eady is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is a HERDSA and ISSOTL fellow, and a SFHEA. Michelle, the President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), holds a national teaching citation for her work in quality teacher preparation. Her research interests include the Scholarship of Teaching an...

Jeanette Heidewald, Class of 2022, Teaching Professor of Business Communication at IU Bloomington.

Adam Maksl, Class of 2020, Manager, eLearning Innovation and Associate Professor of Journalism & Media, IU Southeast.

Meghan Porter, FACET Class of 2021, is the inaugural fellow for the Leah Savion Fellowship. This fellowship annually funds a non-tenure-track (NTT) FACET member’s research in pursuit of continuous improvement as a scholarly teacher.

Shari Fowler, FACET Class of 2021, Assistant Professor of Accounting at IU East

Sumreen Asim, FACET Class of 2023, Professor of Science and Technology Education

Susan Batchelder, FACET Class of 2022, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, IU Bloomington Kelley School of Business

Meganne Masko, FACET Class of 2023, Associate Professor of Music Therapy at IU Indianapolis.

Mohammad Merhi, FACET Class of 2021, Professor of Decision Sciences at IU South Bend

Dr. Paul Hanstedt is the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Innovation at University of Minnesota Rochester. Hanstedt is a nationally recognized leader in teaching and learning innovation. His recent books include, "Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World" and "General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty."

Dr. Dawn Tamarkin is a Professor of Biology at National University. She is also the founder and CEO of CellZone, a company that strives to make Universal Design for Learning (UDL) biology products available to more classrooms so that more students can learn about biology.

Brenda Bailey-Hughes, FACET Class of 2023, Teaching Professor of Business Communication at IU Bloomington.

Katie McCarthy, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Bachelor's of Social Work Program Director and Assistant Professor at IUPUI.

Melinda Stanley, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Lecturer in Health Care Management at IU Kokomo.

Sarah Rose Cavanagh is a psychologist, professor, and Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning at Simmons University, where she teaches classes on affective science and mental health, researches the intersections of emotion, motivation, and learning, and provides educational development for faculty.

Suparna Mukhopadhyay, FACET Class of 2022, Lecturer of Biology at IU Southeast.

Janet Decker, FACET Class of 2022, Associate Professor of Education at IU Bloomington. She primarily researches legal and policy issues in special education, but also studies the legal literacy of educators and administrators.

Hannah Haas, FACET Class of 2022, Senior Lecturer in English at IUPUI. Her academic interests include designing instructional materials that help students and employees move beyond the fundamentals to become skilled, sophisticated, persuasive writers.

Andrew Swain, FACET of 2023, Assistant Professor of Business Law at IU South Bend. His research interests include State and local tax overlap and interact with International Tax, and the interplay between tax and corporate social responsibility.

Maureen Rutherford, FACET Class of 2020, Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology. Her research lab studies the impact of drugs and environmental stressors on the physiological and behavioral expression of stress responses in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model.

Niki Weller, FACET Class of 2021, Associate Professor of Sociology at IU Kokomo. Her research is to better understand how sociodemographics influence an adolescent’s exposure to, or protection from, deviant behaviors, with a particular emphasis on risky behaviors such as drug use/abuse and sexual health behaviors.

Allen Davis, FACET Class of 2021, is a Teaching Professor and the Director of the Basic Language Program in Spanish. His research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, especially the role of musical aptitude in pronunciation learning and individual differences in language acquisition. He earned both his Ph. D. and M.A. in Spanish Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, and B.A. in Spanis...

Jason Organ, FACET Class of 2021, is an Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. His research examines how the structure of bone and muscle influences how they work. He earned his PhD in Functional Anatomy & Evolution from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and MA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri.

Shelly Burns, FACET Class of 2023, is a Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing and Health Sciences at IU East. Her current teaching interests include building first-year nursing students classroom and clinical experiences through simulations. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from IUPUI, Master of Science in Nursing Education from Ball State University, and Bachelor of Nursin...

Carrie Mier, FACET Class of 2022, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at IU East. Carrie's area of research is drug trends; community risk and resilience to substance issues; stigma; and, risk and protection to violence and victimization. She received her B.S. in public affairs from IPFW (now Purdue Fort Wayne), and master's and doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from Florida...