Our People
The CBL Office
Faculty Director of CBL & Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Alessandra Del Conte Dickovick
Associate Director of CBL
Assistant Director of CBL
Administrative Assistant
Our Liaison
The CBL Collaborative: 2022-2023 Members
Michael Berlin, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program
Madhumita Chakraborty, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geology
Holly Shablack, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
Angela Sun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Steven Woodruff, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering
Learn more about The Collaborative.
CBL Senior Fellow
Stephanie Sandberg, Assistant Professor of Theater
CBL Course Designation and Course (re)Design Grant Committee
Marisa Charlie, Associate Director of the Shepherd Program
BreAnne Rogers, Prevention Services Program Manager, Rockbridge Area Community Services
Paul Youngman, Associate Provost
CBL Course Grant Recipients
These faculty and community partners received a grant from the CBL Office to design or redesign an existing course to meet CBL criteria.
Dayo Abah & Project Horizon, JOUR 273: Principles of Public relation
Holly Pickett & Heritage Hall, WRIT 100: Introduction to Writing
Nandini Bhalla & Rockbridge Area Conservation Council, JOUR 227: Public Relations Writing
Marisa Charley & TBA, POV 103: A Community-Based Introduction to Poverty Studies
Leah Naomi Green & Boxerwood Nature Center, ENGL 293G: Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
Faculty Who Teach CBL-Related Courses
Accounting: Jack Bovay
Biology: Sarah Blythe
Business: Stephen Lind, Lloyd Tanlu, and Jeff Schatten
Economics: Art Goldsmith
Education: Eric Moffa and Haley Sigler
English: Leah Naomi Green and Holly Pickett
Engineering: Jon Erickson and Joel Kuenher
Environmental Studies: Kim Hodge
Film: Stephanie Sandberg
Geology: Chris Connors
Journalism: Dayo Abah
Latin: Rebecca Benefiel
Law: Allison Weiss
Politics: Rebecca Harris
Poverty Studies: Marisa Charley and Howard Pickett
Sociology and Anthropology: Sascha Goluboff and Krzysztof Jasiewicz
Spanish: Ellen Mayock
Meet the faculty and community partners who laid the foundation for CBL at W&L
These faculty and community partners worked alongside the Office of Community-Based Learning to develop the standards of CBL at the University, including common definitions, student learning outcomes, and course criteria.
Faculty
Marisa Charley, Associate Director of the Shepherd Program, Bonner Program Director, Instructor or Poverty Studies
Jon Erickson, Associate Professor of Physics and EngineeringRebecca Harris, Professor of Politics
Ellen Mayock, Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish
Karla Murdock, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
Howard Pickett, Associate Professor of Ethics and Poverty Studies, and Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability, and Adjunct Professor of Law
Community Partners
Rockbridge County Public Schools (Martha Gilchrist)
Rockbridge Area Community Services (Juliann Smith)
YMCA (Bobbie Wagner)
Virginia Cooperative Extension (Rebecca Wilder)