Faculty Fellows Program

About Faculty Fellows
The Faculty Fellows Program, started in 2026, builds on the previous Community Engaged Faculty Research Fellows program, which supported community-engaged research efforts from 2019-2024. (Read more about that effort in the research fellows tab.) Beyond fostering individual projects, the program cultivates a vibrant community of practice, bringing together faculty from across campuses and disciplines to share ideas, support one another, and champion community engagement throughout UAA.
The time commitment for this fellowship is about 40 hours (or 1 hour per week on average) across the academic year. This opportunity is open to all UAA faculty, including adjuncts!
Benefits of being a CCEL Faculty Fellow include:
- A merit bonus upon completion of your project
- Professional development support
- Peer support from fellow faculty innovators
- Community with other faculty fellows
- Formal recognition as a CCEL Faculty Fellow
Application
The CCEL Faculty Fellows application goes out in Spring semester. The 500-1000 word application asks faculty to share a project idea that creates a durable resource and/or supports community-engaged research and/or teaching at UAA.
Potential approaches might include, but are not limited to: A toolkit, training, partnerships database, best-practices guide, ethics training, AI and engagement, STEM outreach, internship pipelines. The possibilities are wide open! We're not looking for a full project plan. We're looking for a good idea and the commitment to see it come to life.
Be the first to hear when these applications open by subscribing to the CCEL newsletter and . If you have any questions, email uaa.ccel@alaska.edu.
Past Faculty Fellows
- 2025-26
Rei Shimizu
Project: From Tension to Repair: Navigating Conflict in Research Teams
Amy Bishop
Project: Community Partners for the Environmental Sciences
Past Community Engaged Research Fellows Program
The Community Engaged Faculty Research Fellows program (2019-2024) was created to support community-engaged research efforts at UAA, with the goal of supporting faculty through an exchange of ideas and knowledge about partnership development, community engaged research methodologies, and research dissemination. This program connected faculty from across campuses and disciplines and encouraged peer-to-peer support through brown bag presentations, design clinics, individual research consultation, and writing support.
Community Engaged Research Fellows
- 2023-24
Fellows:
- Kristin Riall
- Amanda Glazier
- Vanessa Meade
- Tammalivis Salanoa
- Jennifer Meyer
- Rebecca Van Wyck
- Parisa Lotfi
- Michelle Mishaan
- Jennifer (Jenny) Poon
- Guruprasad Gadgil
- Steffi Kim
- Nathan Rabang
- Sunny Mall
- Tamara M Douglas
- Jennifer Bernard
- 2022-23
Faculty co-leads: Dr. Ruby Fried & Dr. Amanda Walsh
Fellows:
- Vanessa Hiratsuka
- Deborah Mole
- Lisa Schwarzburg
- Nathan West
- Aaron Enriquez
- Guruprasad Gadgil
- Jennifer Aschoff
- Matthew Cuellar
- Gregory Hartley
- Allex Mahanna
- 2021-22
Faculty co-leads: Dr. Britteny M. Howell & Dr. Sara Buckingham
Fellows:
- Carrie Aldrich
- Sally Carraher
- Joel Condon
- Adam Dunstan
- Ruby Fried
- Travis Hedwig
- Sarah Prielipp
- Jennifer Stone
- Angelia Trujillo
- Amanda Walch
- 2020-21
Faculty co-leads: Dr. Britteny M. Howell & Dr. Hattie Harvey
Fellows:
- Donna Aguiniga
- Sara Buckingham
- Herminia Din
- Amana Mbise
- Gabriela Alejandra Olmos Rosas
- Heidi Brocious
- Yvonne Chase
- Ian Hartman
- Jennifer McCurdy
- Publications
- Brocious, H., Trawver, K., Demientieff, L. (under review). Managed Alcohol: One community鈥檚 innovative response to risk management during COVID-19. Submitted to Journal of Harm Reduction.
- Brocious, H., Demientieff, L., & Erisman, M. (2020). Thawing out: understanding adjustment to housing first through an ecological and trauma-informed lens. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1-21.
- Brocious, H., Trawver, K., Griffin, R. (2021). Growing a Statewide CASA Program: An Examination of Current Strengths and Barriers. (In Press). Juvenile and Family Court Journal.
- Salmon, V., Brocious, H., Demientieff, L.M. (2020). When Delivery Means Departure: Describing the Impacts of Mandated Maternal Transport In 麻豆无码版. (In Review). Submitted to Journal of Rural Mental Health.
- Trawver, K., Brocious, H. (2020). Investing in public child welfare workforce: A process evaluation of a statewide mentoring program (In Review). Submitted to Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance.
- Galvin, K., Brocious, H.(under review). Workplace enforcement of immigration policy in the United States: Variation in E-Verify implementation and impact on employment outcomes. Submitted to Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.
- Brocious, H., & Erisman, M. (2020). The Impact of Housing First in a Small Town: Emergency Service Use and the Changing Community Attitude. Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice, 3(1).
- Brocious, H. (2020). RurAL CAP Project Venture Evaluation Report. Rural Community Action Program, Resilient 麻豆无码版 Youth.
- Buckingham, S. L., Schroeder, T., & Christensen Fullmer, A. (2021). Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to produce meaningful and useful research: The 麻豆无码版 Native Cultural Identity Project. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE.
- Buckingham, S. L., Langhout, R. D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chavez, N. R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V. E., & Olson, B. (2021, in press). The roles of settings in supporting immigrants鈥 resistance to injustice and oppression. American Journal of Community Psychology.
- Buckingham, S. L.,& Brodsky, A. E. (in press). Relative privilege, risk, and sense of community: Understanding Latinx immigrants鈥 empowerment and resilience processes across the United States. American Journal of Community Psychology.
- Hartman, I. & The Anchorage Museum. (Apr 鈥 Nov 2021). Black Lives in 麻豆无码版: Journey, Justice, Joy Exhibition. Anchorage, AK:
- Harvey, H., & Kinavey-Wennerstrom, E. (2020). Hearing their voices: Parents perceptions of preschool special education evaluations with dual language learners. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education.
- Harvey, H., Piece, J., & Hirshberg, D. (2020). Guidelines for Culturally Responsive Reflective Practice in Birth to Five Settings. Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
- Howell, B.M., Buckingham, S.L.,King, C., and Kelly, T. (under review). 鈥淎 little bit fun, A little bit frustrating:鈥 Utilizing Photovoice to document student responsibility during a global pandemic. Submitted to Educational Action Research.
- Howell, B.M.,Hanson, B.L., and Wanner. S. (under review). Friendships forged in fitness: An ethnography of older women鈥檚 social experiences at a community fitness center. Submitted to 麻豆无码版 Journal of Anthropology.
- Howell, B.M., Corbett, S., and Peterson, J.R. (under review). Where are all the men? A scoping review of the barriers, facilitators, and recommendations to older male participation in health promotion interventions. Submitted for special volume on gender in medicine in Ageing & Society.
- Howell, B.M.,Seater, M., Davis, K.E., & McLinden, D. (2021). Determining the importance and feasibility of various aspects of healthy aging among older adults using concept mapping. Ageing & Society. DOI:
- Hutchinson, J., & Buckingham, S. L.(under review). The impact of higher education on 麻豆无码版 Native students鈥 cultural identities. Journal of American Indian Higher Education
- Mbise, A., Buckingham, S.L., Chen, T.C., Kuhn, S. Gat, N., and Kimmel, M. (in press). Welcoming cities: Skilled immigrant integration and inclusion in a United States City. In R. Baikady (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
- Mbise, A., (2020).Birth Certificates, Birth Registration and the Denial of Human Rights: Evidence from Tanzania National Panel Data 2010/11. 28(2): 243鈥257.
- Olmos, G.A.(2021). Hispanics In 麻豆无码版: Lost In Translation. Zenger News, 3/16/2021:
- Olmos, G.A.(2020). The Taqueria at the End of the World: At the Top of 麻豆无码版, Try the Tamales. Newsweek, 10/4/2020:
- Olmos, G.A., & Springer Staten, S.M. (2020). Let Us Dream With Open Eyes. Anchorage, AK: Keys to Life.
- Olmos, G.A., & Springer Staten, S.M. (in press). Freedom to Dream (book.art exhibition).
- Green & Gold 2020 feature article on J. Yang鈥檚 work: Harvard report on plastics highlights biotechnology patented by UAA researchers. Click here for link to article.
Faculty Success
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