Big Ten Academic Alliance ALP Fellows

Big Ten Academic Alliance - Academic Leadership Program Fellows

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (BTAA ALP) offers faculty members the opportunity of a robust, year-long program that explores elements of leadership on college campuses. Participants meet with leaders on their campuses and attend three two-day seminars on leadership topics held on a rotating basis at BTAA campuses.

College deans nominate faculty, and each year the Office of Academic Affairs selects Fellows. Ohio State’s BTAA ALP Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year include:

Carlos Castro

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Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

castro.39@osu.edu

Professor Castro received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering both from the Ohio State University and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was post-doctoral fellow at the Technische Universität München working in structural DNA nanotechnology. Dr. Castro joined OSU in 2011 as a faculty member and is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and he serves as Program Director for the Mechanical Engineering Program.

Maria Gallo

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Associate Dean of Research

Epidemiology

gallo.86@osu.edu

Maria Gallo is Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Public Health at Ohio State University. She received her PhD in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining OSU in 2013, she worked at research organizations and the CDC. Maria is a sexual and reproductive health epidemiologist who has contributed to the development and application of semen biomarkers to improve the measurement of sexual behavior. Funded by NIH and foundations, she has led research in Jamaica, Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Vietnam, Cambodia and the US.

Douglas Jackson-Smith

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Professor and Associate Director

School of Environment and Natural Resources

jackson-smith.1@osu.edu

Dr. Jackson-Smith is a professor and Associate Director in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University. He also directs the Agroecosystem Management Program at OSU. Trained as a rural sociologist and agricultural economist, his research has focused on building interdisciplinary and engaged teams to tackle complex agro-environmental problems. He serves on the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and is past-President of the Rural Sociological Society.

Stephen Quaye

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Professor

Educational Studies

quaye.13@osu.edu

Stephen John Quaye is a Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program at The Ohio State University; Editor of The Journal of Higher Education; and Past President of ACPA: College Student Educators International. His research concentrates on engaging students in difficult dialogues about privilege, power, and oppression, and the strategies educators use to facilitate productive dialogues about these topics. His current work focuses on student and scholar activism, as well as the strategies Black educators and students use to heal from racial battle fatigue.

Anne Ralph

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Morgan E. Shipman Professor in Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Moritz College of Law

ralph.52@osu.edu

Anne Ralph teaches Civil Procedure, Advanced Legal Writing, Legal Analysis and Writing (LAW) I and II, and Pretrial Litigation. She also oversees curriculum and teaching matters as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Law. Before joining the faculty in 2011, she practiced with law firms in Washington, D.C. and Columbus, Ohio. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law, procedure, and narrative. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia. https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/anne-e-ralph

Karl Whittington

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Associate Professor and Chair of History of Art

History of Art

whittington.78@osu.edu

Karl Whittington is Associate Professor and Chair of History of Art at Ohio State. His research focuses on European medieval art and architecture, gender and sexuality, and the history of science.