
Spend the summer writing with a peer group and a 1:1 Scholarly Coach
Writing Academy is a career development program designed to advance scholarship. A broad array of scholars at various points in their careers are immersed in a summer-long learning community with peers and senior colleagues to learn successful strategies focused on writing, reflection, and critical feedback. The interdisciplinary opportunities offered during the Academy catalyze interactions across the disciplines and often continue long after the end of the Academy experience. The goal of the Academy goes beyond writing and submitting scholarly pieces and grant proposals to helping participants build a vibrant scholarly life that contributes to the intellectual climate of UNH and beyond.

We've partnered with Howard University for the Writing Academy since it began in 2013. That first year, Howard University faculty participated. As Howard created their own version of Writing Academy focus shifted to include Howard University advanced doctoral scholars and recent PhD graduates in Writing Academy.
We are committed to this partnership which not only enriches the learning community for UNH and Howard scholars but also becomes an opportunity for nurturing future collaborations and synergies between our institutions.
2022 Writing Academy is full. 2023 Writing Academy nominations will begin in spring 2023.
Robert Arredondo |
Veronica Hupper Senior Lecturer Mathematics and Statistics College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Esmaeil Bahalkeh Assistant Professor Health Management and Policy College of Health and Human Services |
Jada Lindblom Associate Field Specialist Cooperative Extension |
Kay Chen Assistant Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders College of Health and Human Services |
Martin McKinsey Associate Professor English College of Liberal Arts |
Camille Dantzler Lecturer and PhD Candidate African Studies and Research Howard University |
Theresa Oehmke Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Burcu Eke Rubini Assistant Professor Decision Sciences Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics |
Anissa Poleatewich Assistant Professor Graduate Program Coordinator Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems COLSA |
Ngozi Enelamah Assistant Professor Social Work College of Health and Human Services |
Melissa Ryan Assistant Professor Coordinator of Music Education Music College of Liberal Arts |
Eleta Exline Associate Professor Scholarly Communication Librarian UNH Librarye |
Shadya Sanders Postdoc Sociology and Atmospheric Sciences Howard University |
Cristina Faiver-Serna Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar Women's and Gender Studies, Geography College of Liberal Arts |
Sherri Simmons-Horton Assistant Professor Social Work College of Health and Human Services |
Patricia Kelshaw Assistant Professor Kinesiology College of Health and Human Services |
Aisha Udochi PhD Student Howard University |
Julianna Gesun Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Penelope Whitman Assistant Field Specialist Community and Economic Development UNH Extension | College of Life Sciences and Agriculture |
Nicoletta Gullace Associate Professor History College of Liberal Arts |
Ethel Wolper Associate Professor History College of Liberal Arts |
C. C. Hendricks Assistant Professor Director of First Year Writing Communication Arts and Sciences Women's and Gender Studies University of New Hampshire at Manchester, College of Liberal Arts |
Melissa Aikens
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Cristy Beemer
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of English
Orly Buchbinder
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ellen Cohn
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Justice Studies and Psychology
Andrew Coppens
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Associate Department of Education
Leslie Couse
Executive Director
Engagement and Faculty Development
Dev Dutta
Faculty Fellow and Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Management
BoRin Kim
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
Nicholas Kirsch
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Delia Konzent
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Thomas Lippmann
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences, Ocean Engineering
Alynna Lyon
Faculty Fellow and Co-Chair, UNH Writing Academy
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Political Science
Lisa MacFarlane
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of English
Jill McGaughy
Senior Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Psychology
Barry N. Rock
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor Emeritus
Natural Resources and the Environment
Sarah Sherman
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor Emerita
Department of English
Michael Swack
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Nikhil Tomar
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Patricia Walsh
Program Coordinator
Engagement and Faculty Development
Scott Weintraub
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The vision for the University of New Hampshire's Writing Academy is to enhance faculty members' scholarly careers. We seek to broaden the number and diversity of faculty who publish their scholarship and are awarded proposals by external funders to enhance their scholarship and engagement agendas.
To support our vision, the Academy goals are to:
- Enhance faculty scholars' emerging or established scholarly agendas
- Catalyze interactions among scholars and scholarly coaches to create robust and productive scholarly agendas
- Provide information and access to colleagues with successful publication and grant records to learn about successful writing and/or proposal development strategies
- Encourage scholars to develop a team approach to enhance publication and grant writing success
- Provide information and access to on-campus scholarly and proposal writing and submission resources
- Create opportunities among faculty for multidisciplinary scholarship and engagement
2020 Scholars

Funso Afolayan Marcy Ainslie Laura Allen Matthew Argall Kathryn Aydelott Colin Campbell Kelly Giraud Safayat Hossain Marta Lima |
Caitlin Mills Kenesha Reynolds Adriana Romero-Olivares Felicia Ross Ebony Russ Michael Smith Nikhil Tomar Jamal Uddin Todd Young |
2019 Scholars

Denver Jn Baptiste Richmond Danso Mike Ferguson Jessica Forbes Kathryn Greenslade Ollie Jefferson Jeremiah Johnson Amy Keesee Kyle Kwiatkowski Ashley Lewis |
Jon Nash Shannon Rogers Ruth Sample Stephan Shipe Sarah Smith Mary Stampone Matt Tarr Jill Thorson Kate Zambon |
2018 Scholars

Jessie Bennett Kathryne Brewer Elizabeth Burakowski Andrew Conroy Alexandra Contosta Andrew Coppens Michelle Gibbons Young Jo Kim |
Christopher LeBlanc Alyssa O'Brien Amy Ramage Sarah Theimer Wenjuan Xie Se Young Yoon Lin Zhang Ann Zimo |
2017 Scholars

Mark Bonica Rachel Burdin Elizabeth Carter Ileana Chirila Jaed Coffin Jennifer Dijkstra Alyson Eberhardt Robert Eshbach John Gunn |
Jeff Halpern Shawna Hollen Smita Lahiri Weiwei Mo Kim Nesbitt Julia Rodriguez Jill Trumbell James Tucker Susan Drisko Zago |
2016 Scholars

Nora Draper Dev Dutta Cindy Hartman Tyler Jamison Vanessa Levesque Emilie Reagan |
Robert Ross Samantha Seal Sheree Sharpe Edward Song Mark Wiley |
2015 Scholars

Brigitte Bailey May (Xiaoyan) Bao Daniel Bromberg Eun Kyeong Cho Eshan Dave Harriet Fertik| Jennifer Franczak Lara Gengarelly Rebecca Glauber Keneshia Grant |
Lou Ann Griswold Boyd Hegarty Shameka Johnson BoRin Kim Amol Kulkarni Kyndra Middleton Diane Silva Pimentel Eleanne Solorzano Sean Tavares Harish Vashisth Kang Wu |
2014 Scholars

Cristy Beemer Nadine Berenguier Feixia Chu Vanessa Druskat Nivedita Gupta Robin Hackett Patricia Halpin Lori Hopkins Soo Hyon Kim Yannis Korkolis |
Alynna Lyon Dawn Meredith David Plachetzki Nicole Ruane Vidya Sundar Nathan Trauntvein HaiYing Wang Tom Weber Barbara White Reginald Wilburn |
2013 Scholars

Reagan Baughman Jessica Bolker Jade Lee Li-Jen Chen Leslie Couse Tat Fu Majid Ghayoomi Margaret Greenslade Lin Guo Michael Jonas |
Nicholas Kirsch Marko Knezevic Yaning Li Courtney Marshall Bryan Ness Rachel Trubowitz Cynthia Winston Martin Wosnik Qiaoyan Yu |
Alphabetical list of past Scholarly Coaches
Melissa Aikens Sajay Arthanat Cristy Beemer Debra Brucker Tricia Bent-Goodley Julie Bryce Orly Buchbinder Kathy Cataneo Feixia Chu Ellen Cohn Andrew Coppens Leslie Couse Todd A. DeMitchell Michele M. Dillon Kurk Dorsey Mark Ducey Devkamal Dutta Burt Feintuch Rebecca Glauber Karen J. Graham Nivedita Gupta Elyse Hambacher Paul Harvey BoRin Kim Nancy E. Kinner Brad L. Kinsey |
Nicholas Kirsch Delia Konzent Dain LaRoche Dexter Lee Thomas Lippmann Alynna Lyon Lisa MacFarlane Jill McGaughy David Pillemer Emilie Reagan Barry N. Rock Robert Ross Nathan A. Schwadron Sarah Sherman Jo Sias Erin Sharp Michael Swack Erik Swartz Louis Tisa May-Win Thein Rachel Trubowitz Nikhil Tomar Scott Weintraub Reginald Wilburn Julie E. Williams |
Testimonials
The Writing Academy was enormously beneficial for me to learn personalized strategies to support my writing. It created a supportive environment that I was able to translate into my daily practice. I cannot speak highly enough of this Academy!
Jill Thorson
Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Health and Human Services
"The UNH Writing Academy is an excellent component of faculty development for junior faculty striving for tenure. I would highly recommend the writing academy to any and all of my colleagues."
Michael Ferguson
Assistant Professor
Recreational Management and Policy
College of Health and Human Services