AWAC Board of Consultants

What is the Board of Consultants?

The AWAC Board of Consultants are AWAC members who have expertise in WAC program administration and pedagogy, and have been vetted by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and AWAC Executive Committee. These consultants may be contacted with invitations to lead WAC workshops, review WAC programs, and promote WAC program development.

The consultants set their own fees. AWAC is providing this list as a service to the field and does not directly benefit from consultations arranged between Consultant Board members and the institutions that hire them. Those interested in utilizing the Board of Consultants service can either email the board member directly or complete our Consultant Request Form.

Meet Our Board Members

Our Board of Consultant members have years of experience and expertise to share with others. Below are short bios for each of our members, an abbreviated CV, and a list of their areas of expertise:

Read Chris’ CV 

Email Chris at ude.uscn@nosnac 

Distinguished University Professor and Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor at North Carolina State University, Chris is Senior Strategic Advisor for the Campus Writing and Speaking Program. He has published 19 books and over 140 articles and book chapters relating to writing research and instruction, and has led faculty workshops in 35 countries. He is Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and will assume the position of Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. His full c.v. is at www.ansonica.net

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Communication across the Curriculum, Global WAC practice, Graduate-Student Communication, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Secondary and Post-Secondary WAC Connections, Starting a WAC Program, STEM/STEAM Disciplines, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Quality Enhancement Plans, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum, Progressive approaches to plagiarism and source use; writing to learn; WAC and digital technologies

Read Ann’s CV

Email Ann at ude.hcime@elsekalba 

Ann Blakeslee is Professor and Director of Campus & Community Writing at Eastern Michigan University. Blakeslee coordinates the writing center, WAC, Eastern Michigan Writing Project, and YpsiWrites. She is outgoing chair of AWAC and Associate Publisher for Books, Monographs, and Conference Proceedings for WAC Clearinghouse. She is an ATTW Fellow. In addition to WAC, her interests include workplace writing, learning transfer, community writing centers, writing assessment, secondary and post-secondary partnerships, qualitative research, and faculty professional learning. 

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Graduate-Student Communication, Health Sciences, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Secondary and Post-Secondary WAC Connections, Starting a WAC Program, STEM/STEAM Disciplines, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing Centers, Writing-Intensive Curriculum

Read Michelle’s CV

Email Michelle at ude.llenroc@522ctm 

Michelle (Cox) Crow, Ph.D., directs the English Language Support Office, a communication support program for international graduate students, in Cornell University’s Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. She is the inaugural chair of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, past chair of the CCCC Standing Group on WAC, and former chair of the Consortium on Graduate Communication. Her scholarship focuses on WAC theory and program administration, writing pedagogy, graduate writing, and multilingual writing.

Areas of Expertise

Graduate-Student Communication, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), International/Multilingual Communication, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing Centers

Read Tom’s CV

Email Tom at ude.nnocu@snaed.mot 

Tom Deans is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he leads efforts to promote writing across the curriculum and directs the writing center. He has expertise in writing-intensive courses and leads pedagogy workshops for faculty and teaching assistants across the disciplines. He is founding co-editor of the Oxford Guides to Writing in the Disciplines and is currently working on projects in STEM writing. Before coming to UConn, Tom was founding director of an interdisciplinary writing program at Haverford College, so he understands both small liberal arts colleges and large public universities.

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Secondary and Post-Secondary WAC Connections, STEM/STEAM Disciplines, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing Centers, Writing-Intensive Curriculum

Read Crystal’s CV

Email Crystal at ude.naivarom@cyerdof 

Crystal N. Fodrey is an Associate Professor of English and Writing Arts at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA where she currently serves as Founding Executive Director of the Center for Academic Excellence and directs the award-winning Writing at Moravian program. Her research is grounded in her dedication to well theorized and effective teaching and administrative practices as they relate to writing across the curriculum and has appeared in Across the Disciplines, Composition Forum, Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation and elsewhere.

Areas of Expertise

Accreditation (Middle States), Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Jeff’s CV

Email Jeff at ude.uaf@nilagj 

Jeffrey Galin is the founding director of FAU’s University Center for Excellence in Writing, WAC program, Professional English Language Support program, and Community Center for Excellence in Writing. His most recent co-authored book is Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, which provides a theoretical framework, methodology, strategies, and tactics for developing sustainable WAC programs. He has consulted for small, medium, and large institutions, including community colleges. 

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Community & Two-Year Colleges, Communication across the Curriculum, Global WAC practice, Graduate-Student Communication, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), International/Multilingual Communication, Online/Hybrid, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Quality Enhancement Plans, Writing Centers, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Alyson’s CV

Email Alyson at ude.etatsoloc@ffuh.a 

Like a unicorn, Alyson is a rare find in WAC. In addition to being the WAC Director at a two-year school for over a decade, a Founding Member of AWAC, a Writing Center consultant, and an IWAC Advisory Board member, she is also a Philosophy teacher! This interdisciplinary perspective fuels her passion for teaching and learning across disciplines and programs. 

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Community & Two-Year Colleges, Health Sciences, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Online/Hybrid, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Writing Centers, alternative forms of assessment (i.e., holistic assessment)

Read Sandra’s CV

Email Sandra at ude.werd@oseimajs 

Sandra Jamieson is Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Drew University, where she works with faculty developing and teaching WAC courses and directs an undergraduate writing fellows program. In addition to reviewing programs and consulting on QEPs, she runs workshops across the US on all aspects of writing, information literacy, and academic integrity. Her publications include the Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, and Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines.

Areas of Expertise

Accreditation (Middle States), Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Quality Enhancement Plans, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Mike’s CV

Email Mike at ude.etatsoloc@tsiuqmlap.ekim 

Mike Palmquist is Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing. He is founding editor and publisher of the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu), a publishing collaborative that provides open access to more than 175 scholarly books, more than a dozen refereed journals, and a wide range of instructional and professional resources. In 2021, he was named Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.

Areas of Expertise

Global WAC practice, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program

Read Tiffany’s CV

Email Tiffany at ude.ccls@lucsuort 

Tiffany Rousculp is the founding director of the Salt Lake Community College Writing Across the College program which she developed within praxis and pedagogies derived from her work and scholarship regarding community writing centers. The WAC program supports student learning by providing SLCC faculty, staff, and administrators with a wide variety of resources to confidently engage with writing in their teaching and professional activities and by leading equitable college-wide writing assessment practices.

Areas of Expertise

Community & Two-Year Colleges, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing Centers

Read Shawanda’s CV 

Email Shawanda at ude.uth@trawetsjs 

Shawanda Stewart teaches writing and rhetoric courses in the Dept. of English and Communication at Huston-Tillotson University, a private liberal arts HBCU. Her primary research interests include rhetoric, language ideology and culture, anti-racist writing pedagogy and assessment, and first-year composition pedagogy. Stewart has a genuine interest in research and scholarship that examines and promotes writing transfer and identity authenticity through language in the college composition classroom.

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Online/Hybrid, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Chris’ CV 

Email Chris at ude.sivadcu@ssiahtjc 

Christopher Thaiss, Professor Emeritus of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of California, Davis, serves regularly as a consultant and program reviewer, including internationally as a Fulbright Specialist. Thaiss coordinated the International Network of WAC Programs (2005-2015). At UC Davis, he directed the University Writing Program, directed the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, coordinated the cross-disciplinary First-Year Seminar Program, and chaired the PhD emphasis in writing and rhetoric. Until 2006, he taught at George Mason University, where he chaired the English Department and directed the composition and WAC programs and the university writing center. Thaiss has written, co-written, or edited fourteen books, most recently Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (Broadview, 2019) and A Short History of Writing Instruction, 4th ed. (Routledge, 2020). For more information, see http://thaiss.ucdavis.edu 

Areas of Expertise

Accreditation (SACSCOC, WASC), Communication across the Curriculum, Global WAC practice, Graduate-Student Communication, Online/Hybrid, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, STEM/STEAM Disciplines, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Molly’s CV

Email Molly at ude.nmu.r@nesebbum 

Molly E. Ubbesen, Ph.D. (she/they) is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at University of Minnesota Rochester. She applies critical disability studies to writing studies to support accessible and effective teaching and learning. Dr. Ubbesen has published work in Writing Program Administration, Composition Forum, and Disability Studies Quarterly. She is on the editorial team for the follow-up of the foundational text Disability and the Teaching of Writing, and she is also working on a research project about accessible assessment. 

Areas of Expertise

Assessment Processes, Inclusive and Equitable Practices (including teaching and administrative practices that emphasize inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility), Online/Hybrid, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs

Read Elizabeth’s CV

Email Elizabeth at ude.hoimaim@aeeldraw 

Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University, where she takes primary responsibility for faculty development initiatives. She was previously department chair and director of writing programs at the University of Central Florida. She has co-authored five books about writing instruction and program design and won numerous teaching awards and been recognized for leading two writing programs of excellence. 

Areas of Expertise

Communication across the Curriculum, Graduate-Student Communication, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Read Terry’s CV

Email Terry at ude.umg@ikcawazt 

Terry Myers Zawacki is an emerita professor and former WAC and Writing Center director at George Mason University. She speaks and consults on building and sustaining WAC programs, developing and assessing WAC-focused QEPs, mapping and assessing writing in the disciplines; and working with second-language writers across disciplines. Prof. Zawacki’s co-authored/co-edited publications include Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines, WAC and Second Language Writers, Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, and Re/Writing the Center: Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center, as well as articles on a range of teaching-with-writing topics related to WAC, writing centers, graduate student writing, and WAC and English L2 writers. 

Areas of Expertise

Accreditation (SACS), Global WAC practice, Graduate-Student Communication, International/Multilingual Communication, Pedagogy: Writing to Learn (WTL); Writing to Engage (WTE); Writing in the Disciplines (WID), Professional Development of Cross-Disciplinary Faculty/TAs, Program Assessment, Restarting or Revitalizing WAC Programs, Starting a WAC Program, Sustaining/Developing a WAC Program, Quality Enhancement Plans, Writing Centers, Writing-Intensive Curriculum, Writing-Enriched Curriculum

Want to Join the Board?

Only AWAC members are eligible to serve on the AWAC Board of Consultants. Calls for new consultants go out every three years, with the next call scheduled for October 2025. Please email Mentoring Committee co-chairs with any questions related to the Board Members using the link below or complete our Consultant Request Form.