Community Purpose
The L&S Teaching & Learning Liaisons are a network of departmental teaching leaders who represent their units in a college-wide community dedicated to advancing teaching excellence. Liaisons bring their department’s perspectives and experiences to the network and help colleagues within their departments engage with useful ideas, examples, connections, resources, and opportunities. The community gives departments a way to navigate opportunities and challenges together, learn from promising work across L&S, and strengthen cultures that support excellent teaching.
Role Description
- Participate. Bring your department’s perspectives, questions, successes, and challenges to the community so others can learn from them. We have meetings scheduled each month. Calendar invitations are sent via our Community Google Group.
- Take useful ideas with you. Share relevant approaches, examples, resources, connections, and opportunities with colleagues in your department.
- Support local engagement. Help colleagues engage with teaching and learning questions, opportunities, and resources that matter in your department.
Flexibility is intentional. Departments operate differently, and liaisons hold different roles and have different opportunities to contribute. No action is too small, and no liaison is expected to do this work alone. The Liaison Community and the L&S Teaching & Learning Team are here to help.
References & Resources
Anna Andrzejewski
Credentials: Liaison, Art History
Position title: Frank Lloyd Wright Professor of Modern American Architecture, and Centennial Chair
William Aylward
Credentials: Liaison, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Position title: Professor
David Baum
Credentials: Liaison, Botany
Position title: Professor
Anthony Black
Credentials: Liaison, African American Studies
Position title: Assistant Teaching Professor
Ed Boswell
Credentials: Liaison, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Position title: Teaching Faculty
Duncan Carlsmith
Credentials: Liaison, Physics
Position title: Professor
Ellen Damschen
Credentials: Liaison, Integrative Biology
Position title: Professor
Pam Doolittle
Credentials: Liaison, Chemistry
Position title: Undergraduate Program Director
Misha Finney
Credentials: Liaison, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Position title: Teaching Faculty I
Carrie Francis
Credentials: Liaison, Physics
Position title: Dir Of Intro & Service Courses
Amy Gangl
Credentials: Liaison, Political Science
Position title: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Teaching Faculty
Nazan Gillie
Credentials: Liaison, Integrative Biology
Position title: Academic Program Director
Joel Gruley
Credentials: Liaison, Geography
Position title: Academic Advisor
Kiara Hibler
Credentials: Liaison, Legal Studies (Center for Law, Society, and Justice)
Position title: Lecturer
Matt Hitchman
Credentials: Liaison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Position title: Professor, Chair of AOS Curriculum Committee and Assessment Committee
Evelyn Howell
Credentials: Liaison, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Position title: Professor
Armando Ibarra
Credentials: Liaison, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, School for Workers and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies
Patrick Iber
Credentials: Liaison, History
Position title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jonathan Jibson
Credentials: Liaison, SuccessWorks
Position title: Career Education Instructor
Melanie Jones
Credentials: Liaison, Psychology
Position title: Undergraduate Program Director
Anna Kowalkowski
Credentials: Liaison, BioCore Curriculum
Position title: Teaching Faculty
Steven Kulig
Credentials: Liaison, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Position title: Associate Director
Nathan Larson
Credentials: Liaison, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Position title: Teaching Faculty II, Outreach Program Manager
Amy Lewis
Credentials: Liaison, Mead Witter School of Music
Position title: Professor
Melissa Lindsey
Credentials: Liaison, Mathematics
Position title: Teaching Professor
Jason Lopez
Credentials: Liaison, Communication Arts
Position title: Professor
Lyn Macgregor
Credentials: Liaison, Sociology
Position title: Academic Advisor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jana Martin
Credentials: Liaison, Language Institute
Position title: Associate Director
Nicholas McConnell
Credentials: Liaison, Astronomy
Position title: Teaching Faculty I
Maria Moreno
Credentials: Liaison, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Position title: Teaching Faculty III
William Morgan
Credentials: Liaison, Spanish & Portuguese
Position title: Director of the Spanish Language Program
Dianna Murphy
Credentials: Liaison, Language Institute
Position title: Director
Erika Petrie
Credentials: Liaison, Anthropology
Position title: Graduate Program Manager
Kristin Phillips-Court
Credentials: Liaison, French & Italian
Position title: Associate Professor
Dan Quint
Credentials: Liaison, Economics
Position title: Associate Professor
Karyn Riddle
Credentials: Liaison, Journalism & Mass Communication
Position title: Professor
Susan B. Ridgely
Credentials: Liaison, Religious Studies
Position title: Professor
Jeanne Schueller
Credentials: Liaison, German, Nordic, and Slavic+
Position title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
Rebecca Shields
Credentials: Liaison, Language Sciences Program
Position title: Instructional Administrator
Amanda Shubert
Credentials: Liaison, English
Position title: Teaching Faculty
Ellen Smith
Credentials: Liaison, School of Social Work
Position title: Clinical Professor
Jesse Steinberg
Credentials: Liaison, Philosophy
Position title: Teaching Faculty
Lisa Theo
Credentials: Liaison, Geoscience
Position title: Graduate Program Manager
Nina Valeo Cooke
Credentials: Liaison, Gender & Women's Studies
Position title: Academic Program Director
Gwen Walker
Credentials: Liaison, Mossed/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Position title: Associate Director
Rachel Weiss
Credentials: Liaison, Asian Languages and Cultures
Position title: Distinguished Teaching Faculty
Denise Wiyaka
Credentials: Liaison, American Indian & Indigenous Studies
Position title: Director
Andy Zimmer
Credentials: Liaison, Mathematics
Position title: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor
Previous Academic Years
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Academic Year 2025-2026
- Anna Andrzejewski, Professor of Art History
- William Aylward, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Erlin Barnard, Distinguished Teaching Faculty of Asian Languages and Cultures
- David Baum, Professor of Botany
- Derek Bean, Teaching Faculty of Statistics
- Anthony Black, Undergraduate Advisor of African American Studies
- Ed Boswell, Teaching Faculty of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Will Brockliss, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Duncan Carlsmith, Professor of Physics
- Tej Chajed, Assistant Professor or Computer Sciences
- Nina Valeo Cooke, Academic Program Director of Gender and Women’s Studies
- Ellen Damschen, Professor of Integrative Biology
- Pam Doolittle, Undergraduate Program Director of Chemistry
- Misha Finney, Teaching Faculty of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Carrie Francis, Director of Intro & Services Courses for Physics
- Amy Gangl, Teaching Faculty of Political Science
- Nazan Gillie, Academic Program Director of Integrative Biology
- Joel Gruley, Academic Advisor of Geography
- Matt Hitchman, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Evelyn Howell, Professor of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Armando Ibarra, Professor of Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies
- Patrick Iber, Director of Undergraduate Studies for History
- Jonathan Jibson, Career Education Instructor of SuccessWorks
- Jenell Johnson, Professor and Academic Program Director of Communication Arts
- Melanie Jones, Undergraduate Program Director of Psychology
- Richard Keyser, Lecturer of the Center for Law, Society, and Justice
- Anna Kowalkowski, Teaching Faculty of BioCore
- Steven Kulig, Associate Director of La Follette School of Public Affairs
- Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
- Nathan Larson, Teaching Faculty and Outreach Program Manager of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Melissa Lindsey, Director of Instructional Staff Operations for Mathematics
- Lyn Macgregor, Academic Advisory and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Sociology
- Jana Martin, Associate Director of Language Institute
- Nicholas McConnell, Teaching Faculty of Astronomy
- Maria Moreno, Teaching Faculty of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- William Morgan, Director of the Spanish Language Program
- Dianna Murphy, Director of the Language Institute
- Erika Petrie, Graduate Program Manager of Anthropology
- Kristin Phillips-Court, Associate Professor of French & Italian
- Dan Quint, Associate Professor of Economics
- Karyn Riddle, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Susan B. Ridgely, Department chair and professor of Religious Studies
- Jeanne Schueller, Director of Undergraduate Studies for German, Nordic, and Slavic+
- Rebecca Shields, Instructional Administrator of the Language Sciences Program
- Amanda Shubert, Teaching Faculty for English
- Ellen Smith, Clinical Professor for the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work
- Jesse Steinberg, Teaching Faculty of Philosophy
- Gwen Walker, Associate Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Diana Wheeler, Student Services and Curriculum Manager for the Mead Witter School of Music
- Denise Wiyaka, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
- Andy Zimmer, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Mathematics
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Academic Year 2024-2025
- David Baum, Professor of Botany
- Jeff Beneker, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Anthony Black, Undergraduate Advisor of African American Studies
- Ed Boswell, Teaching Faculty of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Gudrun Buhnemann, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Duncan Carlsmith, Professor of Physics
- Tej Chajed, Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences
- Kathryn Ciancia, Director of Undergraduate Studies for History
- Nina Valeo Cooke, Academic Program Director of Gender and Women’s Studies
- Ellen Damschen, Professor of Integrative Biology
- Pam Doolittle, Undergraduate Program Director of Chemistry
- Misha Finney, Teaching Faculty of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Martha Fischer, Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Mead Witter School of Music
- Carrie Francis, Director of Intro & Services Courses for Physics
- Amy Gangl, Teaching Faculty of Political Science
- Nazan Gillie, Academic Program Director of Integrative Biology
- Joel Gruley, Academic Advisor of Geography
- Matt Hitchman, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Evelyn Howell, Professor of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Jonathan Jibson, Career Education Instructor of SuccessWorks
- Jenell Johnson, Professor and Academic Program Director of Communication Arts
- Melanie Jones, Undergraduate Program Director of Psychology
- Richard Keyser, Lecturer of the Center for Law, Society, and Justice
- Anna Kowalkowski, Teaching Faculty of BioCore
- Steven Kulig, Associate Director of La Follette School of Public Affairs
- Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
- Nathan Larson, Teaching Faculty and Outreach Program Manager of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Michael Light, Professor of Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies
- Lyn Macgregor, Academic Advisory and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Sociology
- Nancy Marshall, Professor of Art History
- Farid Masrour, Professor of Philosophy
- Nicholas McConnell, Teaching Faculty of Astronomy
- Maria Moreno, Teaching Faculty of Planning & Landscape Architecture
- William Morgan, Director of the Spanish Language Program
- Dianna Murphy, Director of the Language Institute
- Erika Petrie, Graduate Program Manager of Anthropology
- Kristin Phillips-Court, Associate Professor of French & Italian
- Dan Quint, Associate Professor of Economics
- Karyn Riddle, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Susan B. Ridgely, Department Chair and Professor of Religious Studies
- Jeanne Schueller, Director of Undergraduate Studies for German, Nordic, and Slavic+
- Rebecca Shields, Instructional Administrator of the Language Sciences Program
- Amanda Shubert, Teaching Faculty for English
- Ellen Smith, Clinical Professor for the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work
- Gwen Walker, Associate Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Denise Wiyaka, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
- Andy Zimmer, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Mathematics