Engaged Listening Project fellows doing an exercise in a circle.
ELP Cohort leader Lida Winfield leads a hands-on workshop demonstrating the dispositions of Conflict Transformation.

Spring 2025

  • Nicole Anderson (CARE Management)

  • Michelle Audette (Students/Community Standards)

  • Megan Brakeley (The Knoll (Sustainability and Environmental Affairs))

  • Minna Brown  (Climate Action Program, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs)

  • Natalie Chwaliz (Political Science)

  • Michelle Dube (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

  • Miguel Fernandez (Luso-Hispanic Studies)

  • Cynthia Gao (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies)

  • Anne Goodsell (Physics)

  • Crystal Jones (Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

  • Shelby Kimmel (Computer science) 

  • Zahra Moeini Meybodi (The Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious life)

  • Jennifer Molineaux (Public Safety)

  • Leila McVeigh (Counseling)

  • Diane Munroe (Environmental Studies Program and Center for Community Engagement)

  • Kristin Mullins (Center for Community Engagement)

  • Evie Munier (French and Francophone Studies)

  • Fulya Pinar (Anthropology)

  • Sarah Rogers (History of Art and Architecture)

  • Loren Scott (International Student and Scholar Services)

  • Casey Schine (Biology)

  • Mary Jane Simpson (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

  • Becky Tang (Mathematics and Statistics)

Fall 2024

  • Therese Baks (French and Francophone studies)
  • Rebecca Bennette (History)
  • Pam Berenbaum (Global Health)
  • Susan Desimone (Biology)
  • Justin Doran (Religion)
  • Lisa Gates (CTLR)
  • Karin Gottshall (English/Creative Writing)
  • Viola Huang (Black Studies)
  • Ron Makleff (First year seminar)
  • Otilia Milutin (Japanese studies)
  • Timothy Page (Language Schools)
  • Lana Povitz (History)
  • Sarika Sharma (First year seminar/Sociology)
  • Ryan Sheldon (English)
  • Kai Zhang (Chinese)

Facilitators

  • Dima Ayoub (Arabic)
  • Brian Lind (Student Affairs)
  • Jonathan Miller-Lane (Education Studies)
  • Lida Winfield (Dance)

Spring 2024

  • Cihan Artunc (Economics)
  • Mez Baker-Medard (Environmental Studies)
  • Tanya Byker (Economics)
  • Jen Crodelle (Mathematics and Statistics)
  • Nikolina Dobreva (Film and Media Culture)
  • Suzanne Gurland (Psychology)
  • Guntram Herb (Geography)
  • Rachel Joo (American Studies)
  • Tracy Himmel Isham (Center for Careers and Internships)
  • Matt Lawrence (Sociology)
  • Rebecca Mitchell (History)
  • Alexis Mychajliw (Biology and Environmental Studies)
  • Katherine O’Brien (Center for Community Engagement)
  • Amit Prakash (International and Global Studies)
  • Peter Tarjanyi (French and Francophone Studies)
  • Danielle Stillman (Scott Center)
  • Linda White (Japanese Studies)
  • Catharine Wright (Writing and Rhetoric; Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies)

Facilitators

  • Michole Biancosino (Theater)
  • Will Nash (American Studies)
  • Chong suk Han (Sociology)
  • Lida Winfield (Dance)

Fall 2023

  • Dima Ayoub (Arabic)
  • Ian Barrow (History)
  • Carolyn Dash (Biology)
  • Natalie Eppelsheimer (German)
  • Ellery Foutch (American Studies)
  • Daniel Fram (Political Science)
  • Summer Jack (Theatre)
  • Allison Jacobel (Earth and Climate Sciences)
  • Marc Lapin (Environmental Studies)
  • Michelle Leftheris (Studio Art)
  • Shannon Lyford (Center for Community Engagement)
  • Craig Maravich (Beyond the Page)
  • Ben Powers (Innovation Hub/Oratory Now)
  • Kristina Shrestha (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Andrea Vaccari (Computer Science)
  • Mark Williams (Political Science)

Facilitators

  • Michole Biancosino (Theater)
  • Will Nash (American Studies)
  • Sebnem Gumuscu (Political Science)
  • Lida Winfield (Dance

Spring 2023

  • Joe Antonioli (Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry)
  • Phil Chodrow (Computer Science)
  • Chong-suk Han (Sociology)
  • Khuram Hussain (Education Studies)
  • Jon Isham (Economics and Environmental Studies)
  • Mike Leonard (Athletics and  Compass)
  • Elsa Mendoza (History)
  • Sarah Rogers (Art History)
  • John Schmitt (Mathematics)
  • Martin Seehuus (Psychology)
  • Gina Thomas (Psychology)
  • David Torres (Global Health and Posse)
  • Gyula Zsombok (French)

Facilitators

  • Nic Poppe (Luso-Hispanic Studies)
  • Rob Moeller (Psychology)

2022

In 2022 we did an advanced training with Essential Partners with following participants: 

  • Robert Moeller (Psychology)
  • Nicholas Poppe (Luso-Hispanic Studies)
  • Michole Biancosino (Theatre)
  • Lida Winfield (Dance)
  • Shawna Shapiro (Writing and Linguistics)
  • Will Nash (American Studies and English)
  • Florence Feiereisen (German)
  • Sebnem Gumuscu (Political Science)
  • Sarah Stroup (Political Science)

Spring 2021, Cohort A

  • Sandra Carletti, Italian
  • Martha Woodruff, Philosophy
  • Alex Draper, Theater
  • Natalie Eppelsheimer, German
  • Marybeth Nevins, Anthropology
  • Julia Berazneva, Economics
  • Linus Owens, Sociology
  • Chris Herdman, Physics
  • Genie Giaimo, Writing and Rhetoric

Facilitator

  • Sarah Stroup (Political Science)

Spring 2021, Cohort B

  • Cynthia Packert, History of Art and Architecture
  • Jane Chaplin, Classics
  • Florence Feiereisen, German
  • Irina Feldman, Spanish
  • Robert Moeller, Psychology
  • Sebnem Gumuscu, Political Science
  • Jenn Ortegren, Religion
  • Lida Winfield, Dance
  • Alex Lyford, Mathematics

Facilitator

  • Sarah Stroup (Political Science)

Fall 2020

  • Carrie Anderson: FYSE 1186, Printmaking in the time of Rembrandt
  • Ian Barrow: HIST/IGST 473, The 1940s
  • Erik Bleich: PSCI 219, Free Speech v. Racist Speech in US and Europe
  • Susan Burch: AMST 307, Issues in Critical Disability Studies
  • Luis Castañeda: SPAN 339, Peru: Identity, Ethnicity, History
  • Jason Grant: CSCI 454, Biometrics
  • Heidi Grasswick: PHIL 214, Science and Society
  • Jason Mittell: FMMC 104, Television and American Culture
  • Elizabeth Morrison: RELI 225, Chinese Religions
  • Michael Sheridan: ANTH 450, Anthropology of Development

Facilitator

  • Sarah Stroup (Political Science)

Spring 2020

  • Michole Biancosino (THEA), ARDV 116, The Creative Process
  • Mike Leonard (Baseball, Commons Head), Midd Baseball Team
  • Shawna Shapiro (WRPR), WRPR 206, Narratives in the News Media
  • Gary Winslett (PSCI), PSCI 304, International Political Economy
  • Joyce Mao (HIST), HIST 435, American Conservatism after 1932
  • Jamie McCallum (SOCI), SOCI 105, Society and the Individual
  • Gloria Estela Gonzalez Zenteno (SPAN), SPAN 318, Resistencia Latinex
  • Timothy Billings (ENAM), ENAM 103, Reading Literature
  • Amy Briggs (CSCI), CCSI 150, Computing for the Sciences
  • J Finley (AMST), AMST 210, Modern American Culture, 1830-1919

Facilitator

  • Steve Viner (Philosophy)

Fall 2019

  • Tara Affolter (EDST), EDST 215, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
  • Dima Ayoub (ARBC), ARBC 235, Gender Politics in the Arab World
  • Dan Brayton (ENVS), ENAM 243, Maritime Literature and Culture
  • Christal Brown (DANC), FYSE 1441, The Good Body
  • Will Nash (AMST), AMST 252, African American Literature
  • Nicolas Poppe (SPAN), SPAN 0370, Stars and Stardom in Latin America
  • Erin Sassin (HARC), HARC 341, Faust’s Metropolis: Berlin
  • Rebecca Tiger (SOAN), SOCI 288, Deviance and Social Control
  • Tracy Weston (EDST), EDST 206, Environmental Education

Facilitator

  • Steve Viner (Philosophy)

Spring 2019

  • Jonathan Miller-Lane (Ed Studies): EDST 115, Education in the USA
  • Edward Vazquez (History of Art and Architecture): HARC 100, Monuments and Ideas in Western Art
  • Antonia Losano (English/ American Literature and Gender Studies): ENAM 205, Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory
  • Ata Anzali (Religion): RELI 258, The Qur’an
  • Maggie Clinton (History): HIST 475, Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Asia
  • Chong-suk Han (Sociology): SOAN 376, Politics of Identity
  • Kemi Fuentes-George (Political Science): PSCI 372, Gender of International Relations
  • Martin Abel (Economics): ECON 405, Economics of Discrimination
  • Carly Thomsen (Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Studies): GSFS 289, Introduction to Queer Critique

Facilitator

  • Steve Viner (Philosophy)