Global Fellows ProgRam

Applications are due in late September for the following academic year.

The Global Lab hosts Global Fellows to spend a term, with course release, working on a project that integrates creative media and visualization techniques to add new dimensions to their teaching, research or community engagement. The Fellowship offers recipients the opportunity to

learn, experiment, develop, innovate and reflect on ways that interactive, visual, and audio forms of media and storytelling can enhance course activities,
help students support project partners around the world with compelling deliverables, and
translate insights from research in impactful ways.

Fellows are invited to take advantage of the Lab’s resources and expertise to develop websites, podcasts, videos, serious games, immersive experiences, animations, and innovative data visualizations; to develop novel community engagement models, creative scholarhip strategies or innovative teaching resources; and to critically reflect on how creative media and visualization techniques can advance the goals of sustainability, resilience, and justice.

Meet The Fellows

2024-2025

Holger Droessler

Department of Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Assistant Professor

To Study and To Serve: Diversity and Belonging Among ROTC Students at WPI

Elizabeth Long-Lingo

The Business School

Associate Professor

Visualizing qualitative data and theory to foster co-creation and engagement

2023-2024

Roger Gottlieb

Humanities & Arts

Professor

Nature Spirituality after the Environmental Crisis

Joseph Aguilar

Humanities & Arts

Assistant Teaching Professor

Crossing Fronteras

Yunus Telliel

Department of Humanities & Arts Department of Professional Writing Departmnet of Interactive Media, Game Development Department of Robotics Engineering

Assistant Professor

Can Generative AI be an Ethical Media Practice?

Althea Danielski

Humanities & Arts

Associate Teaching Professor

Fostering Cross-cultural Partnerships at WPI

2022-2023

Katherine Foo

Department of Integrative & Global Studies Social Science and Policy Studies

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Regenerative and Reparative Food Systems

Melissa Belz

Department of Integrative & Global Studies

Associate Teaching Professor

“Place Road/ Exploring Everyday Landscapes in An Uncommon Way”

Snehalata Kadam

Department of Physics

Assistant Teaching Professor

Art of Living: Yoga through the lens of Physics

Carol L. Stimmel

Department of Integrative & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor

Large Language Models: Implications for Critical Thinking, Communication, and Creativity

2021-2022

Derren Rosbach

Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering Department of Social Science & Policy Studies Great Problems Seminar

Assistant Teaching Professor

Sustainability Knowledge Network

Lisa Stoddard

Department of Environmental & Sustainability Studies Department of International & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor

Renewable Energy Concentration and Collaborative Network

Laura Roberts

The Global School

“Action Oriented Learning Modules for the IQP”

Rudra Kafle

Department of Physics

Professor

Interactive Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning

Lorraine Higgins

The Global School

Teaching Professor

Advising Resources for the Global Project Experience

2020-2021

Sarah Stanlick

Integrative & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor

The Ways of Knowing Project: Myriad Approaches to Understanding and Assessing the Transformative Capacity of Community Engagement

John-Michael Davis

Integrative & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor

Toxic Livelihoods: A Transmedia Monograph

LinkedIn

Joshua Rosenstock

Interactive Media & Game Development

Associate Professor of Art & IMGD

“AR Pipelines for Site Specific Exhibition Development”

John Galante

Humanities & Arts

Assistant Teaching Professor

“Italian Migration Data Project”

Marja Bakermans

Biology/Integrative & Global Studies

Associate Teaching Professor

“Publishing student-authored Open Education Resources (OERs)”

LinkedIn

2019-2020

William San Martin

Humanities & Arts

Assistant Teaching Professor

Crafting Global Innovation: Assessing the Impacts of the IQPs in Transnational Knowledge and Technology Transfer

Courtney Kurlanska

Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor-Interdisciplinary

The Social and Solidarity Economy: Choose Your Own Adventure

LinkedIn

Michael Elmes

Business School

Professor

“A Website for Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Perspectives into Global”

LinkedIn

Aarti Madan

Humanities & Arts

Associate Professor

“Transmedia Storytelling for Transpacific Studies: Migrant Narratives from the Global South”

2018-2019

Soroush Farzin-Moghadam

Architectural Engineering

Assistant Teaching Professor

“The Epistemic Wall: An interactive art installation exploring the interface of physical reality and the digital word, with an application showcasing global projects”

Ingrid Shockey

Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor

“Climate Stories: Using transmedia storytelling to connect ethnographies of climate change across WPI project center sites”

Robert Hersh

Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Instructor/Lecturer – Interdisciplinary

“Using public art events to link project partners in Albania with the Albanian diaspora community in Worcester around the theme of cultural memory”

LinkedIn

Andrew C. Trapp

Business School

Associate Professor

“New Frontiers in Advanced Analytics for Global Humanitarian Decision-Making”

LinkedIn

Seth Tuler

Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Associate Professor -Interdisciplinary

“Developing transmedia strategies for representing and sharing information about climate hazards, their impacts, and opportunities to mitigate impacts, in collaboration with the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA)”

For more information or concerns related to the Global Fellowship, please contact us at gr-globallab@wpi.edu.