Brad Bilsky comes to UNC Asheville by way of Brevard College, and has been teaching for 10 years. A lecturer in management and accountancy, Bilsky is excited to teach at a liberal arts college and live in Asheville. He's especially looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues.
Fun Fact: Moved to Las Vegas after college to play blackjack professionally (and soon after decided accounting was a little bit more stable of a career choice).
Camila Filgueiras joins UNC Asheville as the Biology Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity. She's taught for four years at Cornell University, and came to UNC Asheville for the opportunity to participate in an organization that values teaching undergraduates. She's looking forward to meeting her students and sharing the amazing world of insects with them.
Fun Fact: Is an EMT does rope rescue.
Ramin Vandaie, a lecturer in management and accountancy, has been teaching for eight years, and most recently taught at SUNY-Buffalo. His love of teaching brought him to UNC Asheville, and he's looking forward to engaging with his students.
Alumna Meghan McGreal is returning to UNC Asheville as a lecturer in chemistry, by way of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, where she taught and served as a teaching assistant during grad school. McGreal says she loved her time at UNC Asheville as a student, and is grateful for the opportunity to give back to her alma mater. She's looking forward to "working with the faculty members in the chem department who inspired me to pursue a PhD in chemistry when I was a student, and hopefully helping students find their passions in the way the faculty and staff at UNCA helped me."
Fun Fact: Was in the UNC Asheville pep band for four years playing piccolo, and was at the infamous NCAA tournament game when the Bulldogs nearly beat Syracuse.
Mario Herrera, the Psychology Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, has taught for three years, most recently at the University of Southern Mississippi. He's looking forward to starting his memory distortion research, recruiting research assistants, and further developing and enhancing his teaching skills.
Fun Fact: Used to be the local audio engineer for friends who were aspiring musicians.
Diamond Forde, the English Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, has taught for seven years, most recently at Florida State University. She's most excited about exploring her own agency in the classroom and bringing a multimodal approach to her pedagogy.
Fun Fact: Can recite the entirety of Keats' "Ode to the Nightingale."
Jessica Casimir-Vadeboncoeur is the Sociology and Anthropology Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity. She has five years of teaching experience; she earned her Ph.D. at University of Florida and worked as a research assistant at Eastern Carolina University. Casimir-Vadeboncoeur is excited to be teaching at a small liberal arts college—the mountain views and restaurants are an added bonus. She's looking forward to connecting with students in her department, coordinating service learning initiatives with MAHEC and other health-related organizations, and collaborating with faculty across campus.
Fun Fact: Is currently undergoing the process of becoming a certified herbalist. Her long term goal is to open an online apothecary on the side providing supplementary plant medicine for individuals living with chronic illness.
Blu Buchanan, also the Sociology and Anthropology Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, comes to UNC Asheville by way of University of California, Davis, and has been teaching for about 10 years. Buchanan says they were drawn to UNC Asheville as a public liberal arts institution, and by the students. "I get to work with folks who are deeply familiar with and connected to the problems facing us as a community right now," Buchanan said. "What we work on together, what we learn together, matters at a grassroots level. These are students who I see bringing the lessons of the classroom out into the various streets, homes, and political spaces they enter." Buchanan says they're looking forward to facilitating conversations with their students, and is excited to dive into what sociology can offer students as they face new problems (locally, nationally, and beyond), and how they can face those problems with an empirically sound toolkit based on research, ethics, and a keen understanding of power.
Fun Fact: Has lived in seven different U.S. states and worked in two foreign countries.
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