Jennifer Martin

Dr. Jennifer Martin is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Martin worked in public education for 17 years, 15 of those as the department chair of English at an urban alternative high school for students labeled at-risk for school failure in metropolitan Detroit.

Layne Morsch

Awards and Honors

2024-25 University of Illinois President's Executive Leadership Program

2023-24 Illinois Academy for Leadership and Development

2020-2023 Center for Faculty Excellence Faculty Associate

2019 UIS Pearson Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching

2018 UIS Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award

2017 College of Liberal Arts and Science Excellence in Teaching Award

Peter Boltuc

SPECIALIZATION: philosophy of AI; machine consciousness

COMPETENCE: philosophy of mind, applied ethics (computer, business, healthcare, environmental), political philosophy, social capital; managemenr theory at the age of AI

SPECIAL INTEREST: cognitive science; e-learning; Artificial General Intelligence


Kristi Barnwell

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy…Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions…." --bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress


Dr. Kristi N. Barnwell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in History in 2011. She has published works on the creation of the United Arab Emirates, British imperialism and American-Jordanian relations.


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