Honors College faculty members are some of the most high-achieving teachers and researchers on the University of Wyoming campus. Their areas of expertise span the academic disciplines and departments at UW. Some of our faculty have primary homes in the Honors College and teach exclusively for Honors. Others have primary homes all over UW and typically teach one or two courses for us each year in addition to courses in their home departments.
In every case, Honors faculty are caring, inspirational individuals who enrich students’ education and expand their understanding of the world. We invite you to check out their profiles, learn about their accomplishments, and get a sense of what inspires their passions.
Assistant Instructional Professor, Science Initiative
SIB, 3017D| (307) 766-4186 | kmurph17@uwyo.edu
Research: Dr. Karagh Brummond's interests are rooted most in the scholarship of teaching and learning in both the undergraduate classroom and in K-12/community settings. She enjoys studying how bridging gaps between the university and statewide groups through science outreach can increase STEM literacy in youth and community members. She is also interested in unique and emerging applications of neuroscience research, such as neuroscience and law.
Assistant Instructional Professor & Honors Capstone Co-Coordinator
Research: Dr. Joslyn Cassady is a Medical Anthropologist with a great interest in understanding the body in cross-cultural perspectives. She lived with the Inupiat in Arctic Alaska for several years and has expertise in Inuit Studies, Critical Medical Anthropology, and Public Health. Her interests include animism, ethnographic fiction, artistic responses to outbreaks and pandemics, and indigenous strategies for social justice.
Associate Lecturer, Honors, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
RH 140 | 307-766-2776 | tfall2@uwyo.edu
Research: Tyler Fall holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in History, and a Master's Degree in Creative Writing. He teaches in both the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the Honors Program. His main interests are the history of world religions, literature (both ancient and modern) and religion, and religion and modern culture. In the Honors College, he teaches courses on Eastern Thought and American Culture, and Religion and Unbelief. He is currently planning another course about Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi.
Assistant Instructional Professor & Honors Capstone Co-Coordinator
GH 212 | (307) 766-4110 | tgrant4@uwyo.edu
Research: Dr. Tom Grant's research has always related to plants and managing ecological systems, although he shared that as he has aged his focus has broadened. He is interested in collaborative approaches to natural resource management that supports resilience, natural systems, sustainable human communities, and stable economic policies. His approach is to implement ecological restoration that includes both humans and natural systems to address our world’s intertwined social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Assistant Instructional Professor
GH 03 | (307) 766-4430 | lhowe@uwyo.edu
Research: Dr. Lori Howe holds an M.F.A. in Poetry and a Ph.D. in Education. She is an Existential Phenomenologist, the author of two books of poetry, a co-creator of the new poetic form, the cadralor, and Editor in Chief of its flagship literary publication, Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor. To learn more, visit her website at lorihowe.com.
Assistant Instructional Professor
GH 204 | hosanna.krienke@uwyo.edu
Research: Dr. Hosanna Krienke's work explores how history and literature, particularly that of 19th century Britain, can offer new models of thinking through pressing modern-day issues in medicine, technology, and science. Specifically, her research explores the meeting-point between the humanities and the sciences by showing how narrative expectations shape ideas of physical recovery, both in the Victorian era and now. Her fields of expertise include literary theory, disability studies, medical humanities, and the history of science/technology.
Assistant Instructional Professor, Honors, Theatre and Dance
slass@uwyo.edu
Assistant Lecturer
Assistant Instructional Professor
GH 211 | anadaliz@uwyo.edu
Research: Dr. Ahmad Nadalizadeh specializes in the modern cinema, literature, and culture of the Middle East, and works extensively in Persian, English, Arabic and French. His research and teaching cut across film and critical media theory, postcolonial and transnational literary theory, and philosophy and aesthetics.