Editorial Team

Dr. Katy Chapman is an Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and serves as the Director of Sustainability at the University of Minnesota Crookston. She has published in several journals including the Journal of Environmental Quality, Agronomy Journal, Soil Science, Ecological Engineering, Chemosphere, Botany Research Journal, Bioresource Technology, to name a few. Chapman has also been recognized by UMN Crookston many times with the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award, 2017 Outstanding Support for International Students, and at the University of Minnesota with the 2016 C. Eugene Allen Award for Innovative International Initiatives; she is also an educator with the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. She has also not only been a participant in the University of Minnesota’s Internationalizing Teaching and Learning Cohorts but has also served as a mentor to other faculty in this program a number of times and been an International Teaching and Learning Fellow. Through these activities Chapman internationalized not only her classes, but also both the Environmental Science and Biology Programs at the University of Minnesota Crookston.  

Dr. David Beard is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has published in the International Journal of Listening, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Southern Journal of Communication, and Enculturation, among other venues. With Richard Enos, he co-edited Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Parlor Press). With Heather Graves, he co-edited The Rhetoric of Oil (Routledge). Like Chapman, he has won awards for advising and for teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth and been a participant in the University of Minnesota’s Internationalizing Teaching and Learning Cohorts, a mentor to other faculty in this program, and an International Teaching and Learning Fellow; he is also a Fellow with the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. Beard is most proud of internationalizing courses that students don’t expect to internationalized, integrating international perspectives into courses in the history of literacy, in board game design, and on Minnesota writers.