Honors Faculty & Postdoctoral Fellows
Honors College faculty work daily to ensure they provide unique courses at Purdue. Click on the person’s name to find their contact information.
Dean, John Martinson Honors College
Email: rphillips@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN | Office Phone: (765) 496-1238

Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs
Email: ntduncan@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1072 | Office Phone: (765) 494-2822
Associate Dean for Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion and Clinical Associate Professor
Email:manwer@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1091 | Office Phone: (765) 494-5986

Associate Dean of Research and Creative Endeavors
Email:bross@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1095

Assistant Dean for Leadership Development and Clinical Associate Professor
Email:aewatkin@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1093 | Office Phone: 765-494-1735

Assistant Director of Blue Sky Lab and Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:adeoye@purdue.edu
Office Location: DUHM 118
Director, Blue Sky Teaching & Learning Laboratory/Associate Professor of English
Email:elallen@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1151 | Office Phone: 765 494 9393
Clinical Assistant Professor; Faculty Fellow with Center for Global Soundscapes
Email:kbellisa@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1075 | Office Phone: 765-494-4973

Clinical Associate Professor & Director of Scholarly Project Grants
Email:britee@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1081 | Office Phone: 765-496-067

Professor of Practice for Philanthropy and Executive Director of Strategic Relations
Email:kdilwort@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1083

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:nfadelli@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1018 | Office Phone: 494-4160

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Research Accelerator Learning Community
Email:hfahning@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1018 | Office Phone: 765-496-4277
Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Interdisciplinary Sports Studies Research Generator
Email:djengell@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1087 | Office Phone: 765-496-0165

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion
Email:mejoseph@purdue.edu
Office Location: Wood 149

Clinical Associate Professor
Email:krish191@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRN 1065 | Office Phone: 765-494-4158

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:mmacgiol@purdue.edu
Office Location: Wood 114
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of PATTeRN Research Generator
Email:moore708@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1074
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:rahman17@purdue.edu
Office Location: LILY G-117
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:serranm@purdue.edu
Office Location: LIlY G 118 | Office Phone: 765-494-4401
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Email:cshee@purdue.edu
Office Location: LILY G-119 | Office Phone: 765-494-4914
Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Study Away
Email: swanso64@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1018 | Office Phone: 765-496-6316


Clinical Associate Professor and Director of International Student Engagement
Email: avanaik@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1091 | Office Phone: 765-496-4018

Clinical Associate Professor and Director of TREKS Research Generator
Email: jaware@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1083 | Office Phone: 765-494-2990

Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Tech Justice Lab
Email:lweinber@purdue.edu
Office Location: HCRS 1072 | Office Phone: 765-496-6317
Faculty Emeritus

Assistant Dean for Recruitment & Admission
Dr. Diane Facinelli has been with the Purdue Honors College since August of 2014, having spent the previous 21 years at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State. She was the first recipient of ASU’s Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Student Mentoring and was a finalist for the Professor of the Year Award. Dr. Facinelli earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in English with an emphasis... Read more
Courtesy Faculty

Ningning (Nicole) Kong is an associate professor of Library Science and a GIS specialist, who has teaching experience in the Honors College, the Department of Anthroplogy, and the School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She holds a Ph. D. in Ecology from Penn State University and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Geography from Peking University. Dr. Kong has won numerous research and teaching grants, and she publishes regularly on the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Clarence Maybee is an associate professor of Library Science and an information learning specialist. He is an expert on curriculum design and an advisor for IMPACT, on which his 2018 book, IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education, focuses. Dr. Maybee holds a Ph. D. from Queensland University of Technology and has won awards for his research. He is currently the Information Literacy Series Editor for Purdue University Press and the incoming chair of Purdue’s Undergraduate Curriculum Council (UCC).

David Nelson is the Associate Director of Purdue’s Center for Instructional Excellence and a leader in Purdue’s IMPACT program. Dr. Nelson, who has a Ph.D. in History from University of California, Irvine, has held research grants from NSF and NIH and a Fulbright fellowship. He publishes on the scholarship of teaching and learning, and he has taught many times in Honors College, both in the Evolutions of Ideas series and as the lead of our Institutional Data course series.