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.
May 22-26 – Writing Retreat 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Friday until noon), Hamilton Smith Hall
May 23 – Dinner 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM, optional, local off-campus
July 17 – Power Hour 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Zoom
August 14 – Power Hour 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Zoom
Scholarly Writing Coach 1:1 meeting 2 hours in June, in July, and in August by mutual agreement
September 15 – Closing Ceremony and Lunch 12:00 noon – 2:00 PM, Holloway Commons
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Aylin Aykanat |
Ben Lee |
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Jessica Charpentier |
Linqing Li |
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Andrea Clarke |
Sahitya Maiya Assistant Professor Human Development and Family Studies College of Health and Human Services |
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Fikirte Erda |
Matthew Mauntel |
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Banafsheh Ferdousi |
Nathan Musoke Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar Physics and Astronomy College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
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Danielle Grogan |
Theresa Oehmke |
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Robin Hackett |
Karina Sanchez |
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Lauren Harris |
Won Suh Assistant Professor Life Sciences College of Professional Studies |
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Michele Kroll |
Lauren Taylor Research Fellow Sociology and Criminology Howard University |
2023 Scholarly Coaches and Leaders
Debra Brucker
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Research Associate Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Benjamin Chandran
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Feixia Chu
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences
Leslie Couse
Executive Director
Engagement and Faculty Development
Dev Dutta
Faculty Fellow and Co-Chair, UNH Writing Academy
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Sherine Elsawa
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences
Amy Keesee
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Nicholas Kirsch
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Delia Konzett
Senior Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Sociology
Adrienne Kovach
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Lina Lee
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Anne Lightbody
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alynna Lyon
Faculty Fellow and Co-Chair, UNH Writing Academy
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Political Science
Barry N. Rock
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor Emeritus
Natural Resources and the Environment
Karen Van Gundy
Scholarly Coach, UNH Writing Academy
Professor
Department of Sociology
Patricia Walsh
Program Coordinator
Engagement and Faculty Development
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
2023 Scholars
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Aylin Aykanat |
Ben Lee |
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Jessica Charpentier |
Linqing Li |
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Andrea Clarke |
Sahitya Maiya Assistant Professor Human Development and Family Studies College of Health and Human Services |
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Fikirte Erda |
Matthew Mauntel |
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Banafsheh Ferdousi |
Nathan Musoke Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar Physics and Astronomy College of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
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Danielle Grogan |
Theresa Oehmke |
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Robin Hackett |
Karina Sanchez |
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Lauren Harris |
Won Suh Assistant Professor Life Sciences College of Professional Studies |
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Michele Kroll |
Lauren Taylor Research Fellow Sociology and Criminology Howard University |
2022 Scholars
Writing Academy class of 2022
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Robert Arredondo Esmaeil Bahalkeh Kay Chen Camille Dantzler Burcu Eke Rubini Ngozi Enelamah Eleta Exline Cristina Faiver-Serna Patricia Kelshaw Julianna Gesun Nicoletta Gullace C. C. Hendricks |
Veronica Hupper Jada Lindblom Martin McKinsey Theresa Oehmke Anissa Poleatewich Melissa Ryan Shadya Sanders Sherri Simmons-Horton Aisha Udochi Penelope Whitman Ethel Wolper |
2021 Scholars
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Mike Alvarez Selina Anosike Yunshil Cha Alison Chen Maeve Dion Molly Donovan Ryan Gibson Briana Hyman Chung Jeong Kristen Johnson Emerald Jones Christos Kastrisios |
Patricia Kelshaw Fabian Kislat Jonathan Lee Lisa Miller Tarkington Newman Amin Rafiei Zachary Scola Sandhya Shetty Shannell Thomas Ermira Zifla |
2020 Scholars
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nora Draper Dev Dutta Cindy Hartman Tyler Jamison Vanessa Levesque Emilie Reagan |
Robert Ross Samantha Seal Sheree Sharpe Edward Song Mark Wiley |
2015 Scholars
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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
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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
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Reagan Baughman Jessica Bolker Jade Cains 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
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Melissa Aikens Sajay Arthanat Cristy Beemer Debra Brucker Tricia Bent-Goodley Julie Bryce Orly Buchbinder Kathy Cataneo Benjamin Chandran Feixia Chu Ellen Cohn Andrew Coppens Leslie Couse Todd A. DeMitchell Michele M. Dillon Kurk Dorsey Mark Ducey Devkamal Dutta Sherine Elsawa Burt Feintuch Rebecca Glauber Karen J. Graham Nivedita Gupta Elyse Hambacher Paul Harvey Amy Keesee BoRin Kim Nancy E. Kinner Brad L. Kinsey |
Nicholas Kirsch Delia Konzent Adrienne Kovach Dain LaRoche Dexter Lee Lina 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 Karen Van Gundy 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
