Key Team Members

A cross-disciplinary team of faculty leaders provides sustained leadership for the grant. The team shapes its questions, cultivates a community of inquiry around them, and turns those questions into concrete opportunities for teaching, research, and institutional learning. Please feel free to reach out to any team member at any time with ideas you might have to support our collective endeavor.

In addition to developing workshops, reading groups, events, and convergences, the team reviews funding proposals (course development, module development, and student-faculty research), and iterates shared definitions of Critical Language Inquiry and Critical AI Literacy as evidence from practice emerges.

Ryan BaƱagale, PhD

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Associate Professor, Music; Assistant Dean of the Faculty; Director of the Crown Center for Teaching

rbanagale@coloradocollege.edu 

Ryan's bio

Nene Diop, PhD

Nene Diop

Associate Professor & Chair, French

ndiop@coloradocollege.edu  

Nene's bio

Natalie Gosnell, PhD

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Associate Professor & Chair, Physics

ngosnell@coloradocollege.edu  

Natalie's bio

Nadia Guessous, PhD

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Associate Professor, Arabic, Islamic, & Middle Eastern Studies, Feminist & Gender Studies

nguessous@coloradocollege.edu  

Nadia's bio

Steve Hayward, PhD

Steve Hayward

Professor, English; Director of the Journalism Institute

shayward@coloradocollege.edu 

Steve's bio

Dhanesh Krishnarao, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Physics

dkrishnarao@coloradocollege.edu 

DK's bio

Cory Scott, PhD

Cory Scott 

Associate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science

cbs@coloradocollege.edu 

Cory's bio

Christiane Steckenbiller, PhD

Christiane Steckenbiller

Associate Professor, German; Chair of Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, & Russian Studies 

csteckenbiller@coloradocollege.edu 

Christiane's bio

Jessica Hunter, PhD

Jessica Hunter

Associate Director of the Crown Center for Teaching; Lecturer

jhunter@coloradocollege.edu 

Jessica's bio

 

Evelina Fisher

Evelina Fisher

Program Coordinator of the Crown Center for Teaching

efisher2024@coloradocollege.edu 

Evelina's bio

 

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