Abraham Khan, Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Khan is a scholar of rhetoric, sports, and race politics in the US. His research focuses on the historical and contemporary contributions of Black athletes to public and political life. In addition to publishing scholarship on athletes such as Curt Flood and Jackie Robinson and issues surrounding social movements and labor politics, Khan has engaged public audiences in such settings as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO and the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Nina McConigley, Associate Professor of English

McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. She earned her MA from the University of Wyoming and her MFA at the University of Houston. Her short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, O, Oprah Magazine, Parents, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and Ploughshares, among others. She is a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship.

Brittney Sly, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Director of CMPD, Program Director of MAPD, and Director, Medical Nutrition Therapy Laboratory

Sly is a registered dietitian nutritionist, assistant professor, and director of the Coordinated Master’s Program in Dietetics in the food science human nutrition department. Her research focuses on malnutrition in rural Rwanda and Zambia, particularly surrounding nutrition and agriculture practices using participatory action research methods while embracing women’s empowerment strategies. Sly is a mother, mountain climber, gardener, foodie, reader of everything and traveler to everywhere.

Jonna Yarrington, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Yarrington is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology. Her research focuses on social stratification and social, cultural, and economic liabilities in contexts of shifting ecological conditions. She has worked at sites in the Caribbean (Haiti, French Guyana) and in the Chesapeake Bay, on Tangier Island and in Norfolk, Virginia. Before coming to CSU, Yarrington held a postdoc at the University of Virginia where she directed the Environmental Justice Policy Clinic at the Karsh Institute of Democracy.

Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies

Anderson examined the discourse of the Harris/Walz campaign, focusing on how their rhetoric is reshaping the U.S. presidency’s gender norms. She will translate that research for diverse public audiences, writing articles for The Conversation, producing short videos for social media and working on a book intended for both academic and lay readers.

Carrie Chennault, Assistant Professor of Geography

Chennault began a long-term project to engage incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to locate and tell frontline stories of contemporary farming behind bars throughout the United States. This effort will be one of “counter-archiving,” calling into question and offering alternative narratives to the existing archive and narrative around prison agriculture.

Tobi Jacobi, Professor of English, Director of the CSU Community Literacy Center and Assistant Chair of the English Department 

Jacobi co-created, piloted, and assessed a new literacy project featuring movable story exchange walls with CSU interns and community writers in Larimer County, including clients at Community Corrections, patrons of the Poudre River Library, and customers at the nonprofit FoCo Cafe in Old Town and other cultural institutions in Fort Collins. Her project’s goal is to promote engaged conversation on contemporary social issues and invite intentional valuing of different life experiences and identities through story exchange.

Jessica Barbata Jackson, Associate Professor of History, Director of Social Studies Teaching

Jackson developed History Matters in partnership with the Poudre School District. This grant-funded education, outreach, and engagement project will co-create (with teachers, students, community members, and subject-matter experts) research-based, culturally responsive, hyperlocal, place-based history curriculum for local P-12 classrooms.

Emily Moore, Associate Professor of Art History at CSU, Associate Curator of North American Art at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art

Moore worked with Taant’a kwáan Tlingit community members to document southern Tlingit art and history, which is poorly represented in Northwest Coast Native art scholarship. This project is a part of her ongoing work with Lingít (Tlingit), Xaadas (Haida), and Tsm’syen (Tsimshian) communities to document their rich art histories in Southeast Alaska.

Tori Arthur, Journalism and Media Communication

Ryan Claycomb, English, Theater, and College of Liberal Arts Deans Office

Marciela DeMirjyn, Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies

Katie Knobloch, Communication Studies

Kit Hughes, Communication Studies

Ken Shockley, Philosophy