Kelly A. Hogan, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kelly Hogan is the associate dean of instructional innovation for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s quality enhancement plan director, and a teaching professor in the College’s Biology Department. Since 2004, she has been teaching 400-seat classes using interactive teaching methods and technologies. Hogan's approach centers on the philosophy that, with the right practice, everyone is capable of learning. By demonstrating the effectiveness of her methods in large lecture classes, her work has received national attention in publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. As the co-author of several biology textbooks (Campbell Biology’s Concepts and Connections and Essential Biology), Hogan has reached hundreds of thousands of students globally. She has also been recognized through nine different campus, state, and national awards for teaching, mentoring, and advising. Recently, she teamed up with her colleague, Dr. Viji Sathy, doing workshops around the country and writing about inclusive pedagogy (inclusifiED.com). Hogan completed her undergraduate degree in biology at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey in 1996 and earned her Phd from UNC–Chapel Hill in 2001.