DEI Fellowship Facilitators

Kelly Duquette, Dean’s Teaching Fellow at the CFDE, PhD Candidate

Kelly Duquette is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow at the CFDE and a PhD candidate in the Department of English. At the CFDE, she focuses on indigenous and anti-colonial pedagogies. Her dissertation, “War Pastoral: Martial Eco-spaces in Early Modern Literature” examines representations of colonial conquest in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lenses of ecofeminism, queer theory, and Radical Black ecology. She holds an M.A. in English from Boston College and a B.A. in English from the University of Florida.

Cecilia Gómez, Associate Director of Teaching and Pedagogy, CFDE

Cecilia Gómez is associate director of teaching and pedagogy. She leads and collaborates with teaching and pedagogy programs, workshops, consultations, and academic learning communities, partnering with faculty and graduate students to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. Prior to joining Emory, Cecilia worked as a faculty developer at the Center for Educational Effectiveness at the University of California, Davis, where she led professional development programs around online/hybrid education, inclusive and equitable pedagogies, active learning, and course redesign with a focus on large enrollment, STEM courses (350+ students in class).

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cecilia brings a multicultural and international focus to her work, having implemented teacher education programs at the Argentinian Federal Department of Education, managed online education programs at the School of Education of UADE Virtual, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses for six years as an associate professor at several private universities (including Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, and Universidad del Salvador.)

Cecilia has a Ph.D. in education, with a concentration on teacher education and applied linguistics (Spanish/English), from UC Davis (2013); a master’s in applied linguistics/teaching English to speakers of other languages from San José State University (1999); and a bachelor’s in public relations from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (1994). She is bilingual in English and Spanish and bicultural.

Ed Lee III, Senior Director of Faculty Inclusivity

Ed Lee III, EdD is the Senior Director of Inclusivity for Emory College of Arts and Sciences. With an emphasis on organizational communication, culture formation, and enhanced collaboration, Ed works directly with academic unit chairs to develop and facilitate department/program level programming and discussion on DEI-related issues across the College of Arts & Sciences. This work is driven by a commitment to cultivate workplace and campus encounters that are more participatory, productive, and engaging.

Ed has a Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Georgia’s Institute for Higher Education (IHE), a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Alabama, and is currently studying the interconnections between religion, justice, and peace building at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

Donna Troka, Director of Diversity and Inclusive Pedagogy

Donna Troka is director of diversity and inclusive pedagogy. She heads up all teaching and pedagogy programs as well as the university course initiative and academic learning communities. As adjunct faculty in the Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA), she teaches special topics courses in American studies and interdisciplinary studies. Her publications include the co-edited volume The Drag King Anthology, and articles titled “Archivists and Faculty Collaborative Course Development” in Provenance, “Critical Moments: A Dialogue Toward Survival and Transformation,” in The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and “‘You Heard My Gun Cock’: Female Agency and Aggression in Contemporary Rap Music” from African American Research Perspectives.

Donna has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Emory University (2007), a master’s in women’s studies from The Ohio State University (1998) and a BA in English from University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign (1995). For more about her teaching, research, activism please see her website.

Eric Weeks, Director, CFDE, and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Eric Weeks is the director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics.  As Director, he collaborates with others in the CFDE and at Emory to support the success of faculty throughout the university.  Eric came to Emory in January 2001 as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics (Emory College of Arts and Sciences), and served as Chair of that department from 2013-18. His research specialty is “experimental soft condensed matter” which means he studies squishy materials like foam, sand, and paste. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. At Emory he has taught classes ranging from introductory level (300+ students) to small graduate seminars. He won an Emory Crystal Apple teaching award and an Emory College CTC teaching award. Eric has a long-standing commitment to engaging and supporting faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars in teaching, research and professional development; due to this he received Emory College’s 2018 George P. Cuttino Award for Excellence in Mentoring. In addition to his important role as a member of the Emory faculty, Eric created and led the Science Education Research Journal Club, which brings together students and faculty from Emory and other Atlanta universities to analyze and understand research approaches to science education.  Eric started as Director of the CFDE in July 2018.

Eric has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin (1997), and a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University prior to coming to Emory.