CIE Staff

Chantal Levesque-Bristol, PhD

Executive Director

Chantal Levesque-Bristol received a B.A. in Psychology (1995), and a PhD (2000) in Social Psychology from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her primary areas of interests are teaching and learning, motivation, educational psychology, faculty development, and institutional change. She is the Principal Investigator on a First in the World Grant from the Department of Education.

David Nelson, PhD

Associate Director

Email: davenelson@purdue.edu

David Nelson received his PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine and has worked in CIE since 2008. He works on SoTL projects and teaching initiatives with faculty across the campus, and has particular interests in cooperative faculty development and research in computer science, especially initiatives to increase women with programming degrees.

Charles A. Calahan, PhD

Assistant Director, Global Learning Development

Email: calahanc@purdue.edu

Charles A. Calahan directs Global Learning Faculty and Student Development. Chuck is a member of the Teaching Academy, a Diversity Fellow, and a Service-Learning Fellow. His focus is on active and experiential learning using advanced and innovative technology. He is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory, a trainer for Sentio's Global Competence Certificate, Unconscious Bias certified, and Cultural Intelligence certified.

Karen S. Neubauer, MA

Assistant Director, Special Projects

Email: neubauer@purdue.edu

Karen S. Neubauer earned a B.S. (1978) in journalism from Iowa State University and was a print journalist and public relations executive before earning an M.A. (2005) in liberal studies from Indiana University. She taught journalism, communication, and composition at institutions including Purdue Northwest and Ball State University, where she earned an M.A. (2017) in rhetoric and composition. Her areas of interest are writing development and assessment, and instructional development and recognition.

Emily Bonem, PhD

Assistant Director, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Email: ebonem@purdue.edu

Emily Bonem received a B.A. in Psychology and Music from Williams College, and went on to earn her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She joined CIE in July 2014 where she focuses on consulting with faculty about their teaching, data collection and analysis for the IMPACT program, and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Emily’s main research interests include self-determination theory, course redesign, and assessing student learning.

Deb Felix

Administrative Assistant

Email: felixd@purdue.edu

Deb Felix has been a member of the CIE staff since December 2009. Deb has been an active member of the Purdue staff since August 1979 with roles in the Diversity Resource Office, Engineering Education, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Libraries. She received an Associate Degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue University in May, 2001.

Daniel Guberman, PhD

Assistant Director, Inclusive Pedagogy

Email: dguberman@purdue.edu

Daniel Guberman earned his Ph.D. in music from the University of North Carolina. Before coming to Purdue, he taught Music History and Theory at East Carolina University. His writings appear in Tyranny, Resistance and Music, American Music?, Tempo, and the Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness. His interests include inclusive, social justice, collaborative, and critical pedagogies, faculty learning communities, and bridging STEM fields with the arts and humanities.

Leslie A. Miller, PhD

Associate Instructional Developer Researcher

Email: millerles@purdue.edu

Leslie Miller earned an A.S. degree in Business Administration (2008, Ohio Dominican), a B.S. degree in Applied Psychology (2013, Franklin University), an M.A. degree in Sociology (2016, University of Oklahoma) and Ph.D. in Medical Sociology (2021, University of Oklahoma). Prior to joining CIE in 2022, Leslie’s research focused on experiences for people with invisible disabilities and the stigmatization in medical communication. In CIE, Leslie focuses on inclusive teaching, faculty development, and data collection and analysis. Her interests include collaborative efforts to teaching and learning, social justice and equity as they relate to students’ experiences in the classroom, with a particular interest in classroom experiences for students with invisible disabilities.

Lakshmy Mohandas

Associate Instructional Developer Researcher

Email: lmohanda@purdue.edu

Lakshmy Mohandas received her PhD (2022) in Engineering Technology from Purdue University, Indiana. She earned her Bachelors (2012) in Electronics & Communication Engineering and Masters (2014) in Communication Systems Engineering from India. Her research interests include the HyFlex learning model, student engagement, equitable learning using different modes of participation, student motivation and achievement goals.

Allison Russell

IMPACT Program Manager

Email: allisonrussell@purdue.edu

Allison Russell has a B.A. in Marketing (2009) from the University of Kentucky. She moved to Chicago in 2010 where she was a research program coordinator with the Health Literacy and Learning Program at Northwestern University. She started working with CIE in October 2017, where she enjoys working with people across campus in diverse ways and guiding faculty through the IMPACT program.

Hyun Jin Cho

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: hyunjin@purdue.edu

Hyun Jin Cho received a B.A. in German from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korea, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Purdue University. She joined CIE in August 2016 and continued to work on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL projects) as a post-doc. Hyun Jin’s primary research interests include self-determination theory, second language learning, beliefs about assessment, and course redesign.

Wonki Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: lee3065@purdue.edu

Wonki Lee received a Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum Instruction, Language and Literacy at Purdue University. She received her bachelor's and master's, specializing in Korean language education as a second/foreign language, from Seoul National University, South Korea. Her research interests are self-efficacy, culturally responsive teaching, and machine-learning in an educational setting.