Faculty Fellows Program

Amanda Apgar

Amanda Apgar (PhD Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles) is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in Health & Society. Professor Apgar's research and teaching interests are in the interdisciplinary field of feminist disability studies with a focus on disability life-writing, narratological methods, and the intersections of disability with gender in cultural concepts of childhood. Apgar's research is driven by an abiding fascination with memoirs about raising disabled children. Her first book, The Disabled Child, Memoirs of a Normal Future, was published in 2023 with University of Michigan Press as part of the Corporealities series on disability. She has since published an open access database of all U.S.-based, English-language parental memoirs at www.disabledchildmemoirs.com. Her work has also appeared in Journal of Lesbian Studies and Journal of Narrative Theory. Professor Apgar is a founding member of the LMU & LLS Disability Justice Working Group, and co-creator and curator of the Hannon Library digital collection Cura Personalis: Lions with Disabilities. She also serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the Society of Disability Studies. Professor Apgar's past collaborations with The Center for Teaching Excellence include several disability-related workshops and talks, including the Access Pedagogy FLC (2021-2022) and Disability Justice and Access Pedagogy for the Teaching Towards Justice series.

Elizabeth A. Drummond

Elizabeth A. Drummond (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Associate Professor of History and affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts; she also directs the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Studies/History. Professor Drummond is a social and cultural historian of modern Central Europe, with a focus on national identity, nationalist mobilization, and the experience of national conflict in the German-Polish borderlands. More recently, she has begun a project focused on the Weimar artist Max Thalmann. She is also a member of the team that founded and maintains the interdisciplinary digital project the German Studies Collaboratory. Professor Drummond teaches broadly in modern European and world history and increasingly in public history. She has just received a National Endowment Humanities Humanities Initiatives grant to establish a Public Uses of the Past Summer Institute for rising high school seniors. In 2022, Professor Drummond received the President’s Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award from LMU and a Teacher Eddy Award from the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce. She has previously served as chair and associate chair in the Department of History, chair of the BCLA College Council, Faculty Senate President, CTE Faculty Fellow for Teaching Excellence, co-coordinator of the German Studies Association's Teaching Network, and on the board of the Central European History Society. 

Ivy Fofie

Dr. Ivy M Fofie studies media from a critical, postcolonial, and decolonial perspective. Her research lies at the nexus of journalism, media studies, media history, political economy, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. All her teaching and research centers on these broad themes and interrogates the power relationship that exists within these various intersections. Before coming to LMU, she worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Oregon and as an assistant professor at the University of Ghana, teaching courses in journalism, media and diversity, identity, media history, global media, and gender studies. Her current research explores the history, political economy, and gendered content of women working in local language media in the global south. Her work has appeared in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Journal of African Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and several edited books. She is currently editing a special issue for Feminist Media Studies titled “Gender, Media, and Sexuality in Africa.” She has received top papers at the International Communication Association (ICA) and the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), as well as several scholarships and grants, including from the prestigious Sylff Organization and the Margaret McNamara Organization (MMEG). She serves on the board of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) and as Internationalization Officer for the Feminist Scholarship Division at the International Communication Association.

Keisha Chin Goosby

Keisha Chin Goosby is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Academic Program Director of the General Education Intern/Resident/Practitioner teacher credential program in the School of Education. Her personal experiences as a formerly undocumented immigrant, first generation college graduate, and parent of two young adults inform her work as a scholar-practitioner. Dr. Chin Goosby intentionally centers the advancement of anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in her teaching, mentoring, and research in education. She has published and forthcoming work that addresses: preparation of historically excluded students for graduate school, an unorthodox support model to mentor undocumented students, higher education classroom practices that promote equity, voicing the experiences of leaders of color in education, and a practical guide for educators to support undocumented students. Her career in education includes elementary and secondary teaching in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, teaching and mentoring of K-12 teachers, and preparing undergraduate students for graduate school. She enjoys working with and learning from her students.