Faculty Development

Jennifer Black, PhD is a lecturer in the English Department. She has been teaching at Boise State since 2001 and serving as an eQIP Faculty Associate since Fall 2008 to train and mentor online instructors. As a faculty member, she teaches courses in Renaissance literature, Humanities, and Composition, as well as in Foundational Studies. Her research interests include Early Modern women writers and artists, online and hybrid pedagogy, academic integrity, active learning strategies for literature courses and high-enrollment classes and the future of higher education. Jen especially likes “talking shop” with other online instructors and swapping ideas about effective teaching.

Kim Carter-Cram, PhD received her doctorate in French from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focus is on 20th century women’s personal narratives and philosophical texts in French and Francophone literature. Carter-Cram’s writings appear in works such as the Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography and in the Encyclopedia of Life Writing. In addition, she has published work on Simone de Beauvoir and Marcel Proust. Her conference presentations on the works of Assia Djebar, Simone de Beauvoir, feminism and religion and the use of the Internet in higher education attest to a wide range of expertise.

Patrick R. Lowenthal, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, where he teaches master’s and doctoral-level students in a fully online graduate program. He joined the eQIP team as a Faculty Associate in Spring 2014. Before moving to Idaho, Patrick worked as an Academic Technology Coordinator at the University of Colorado Denver as well as Assistant Professor at Regis University, where he began teaching online in 2003. Patrick is interested in problems of practice with teaching and learning online. He researches how faculty and students communicate using emerging technologies and specifically focuses on issues of presence, identity and community online.

Erik Hadley, PhD is a lecturer in the History Department and University Foundations, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in history as well as UF 100 and UF 200. He received his doctorate from the University at Buffalo (SUNY–Buffalo) in European and Atlantic World history. His research interests centers on commemoration of public ritual festivals in Francophone Belgium dating back to the 17th century. Hadley started teaching online courses at BSU in 2013 and has developed 100-level online courses for the Online Degree Pathway (ODP) program. He is particularly interested in active-learning pedagogies, including gaming in the classroom (live and virtual), particularly through games published by Reacting to the Past consortium. He also utilizes blogs, wikis, videos, and podcast projects in his online classes as means to further student interaction and learning.