Current Scholars

2026 Summer/Fall Teaching Scholars

Gargi Bhaduri

Fashion, Kent Campus

Gargi Bhaduri, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor (advancing to Professor in Fall 2026), Associate Director, and Undergraduate Coordinator for the School of Fashion. Her research explores the intersections of creative manufacturing, circular supply chains, and public education. Driven by the belief that empowerment stems from transparency, Dr. Bhaduri employs an information-processing approach to help supply chain constituents make conscious, ethical decisions.

A distinguished educator, Dr. Bhaduri has secured over $150,000 in external teaching grants to advance pedagogy. She finds her greatest professional joy in the classroom, fostering a collaborative environment where she learns alongside her students as they reach their full potential.

This commitment to lifelong learning extends to her life as a small business owner, gardener, and avid traveler. She views the garden as a master teacher in patience and incremental progress, learning to pivot based on the constant feedback of nature. Similarly, her travels serve as a vital tool for growth; she believes that exploring the world opens the mind, sparking the curiosity to ask better questions and discover innovative, diverse ways of solving problems.

Lynne Guillot Miller

Counselor Education, Kent Campus

I am an associate professor in the School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences. I am on the faculty in the Counselor Education and Supervision Program. While teaching courses associated with school counseling, counseling children, assessment in counseling, and College Teaching, I have developed a research interest in using collaborative group assignments and creativity in teaching and supervision. My teaching philosophy aligns with relational cultural and experiential theoretical approaches. I have a commitment to teaching and learning and have served on the curriculum committees for our Program and School and the University Teaching Council for several years.  

Bryan Jones

Psychology, Ashtabula Campus

Caitlin Kane

Theatre & Dance, Kent Campus

Mariana Romero Gonzalez

Modern & Classical Language Studies, Kent Campus

I have been a member of the Kent State University community for almost 16 years. I am a Spanish lecturer, as a non-tenure track faculty I have served as Elementary Spanish coordinator and taught lower and upper division courses. I am proud to be part of the KSU family, and I am grateful for all the opportunities I have found here at Kent State University.  One thing I really like as a faculty member is seeing my students learning and growing as individuals. I am interested in learning strategies that help students achieve goals in language learning. 

Lauren Vachon

Multidisciplinary Social Studies and Humanities, Kent Campus

Lauren Vachon is an Associate Professor of LGBTQ Studies and coordinator of the LGBTQ Studies minor program. Lauren’s research and teaching interests include fiction writing, LGBTQ history, queer pedagogy, and collecting LGBTQ oral histories. Lauren was a research assistant on the Queer Pandemic: Resilience in Times of Crisis project, which collected oral histories of LGBTQ people in the United Kingdom and is affiliated with the Queer Britain museum. Lauren also was a part of the faculty team that supervised student work on a 2019 Kent State theater piece titled “Stonewall +50: The Riot Continues.” The play was written and performed by Kent State students in March 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Lauren earned an MFA in creative writing from the NEOMFA.

When Lauren is not at work, she’s probably outside. Lauren’s hobbies include backpacking, knitting, sewing, and spending way too much time with her 3-ish cats (three indoor cats, one feral barn cat). Lauren is working on a novel draft that’s a genderqueer retelling of the 1915 feminist utopian novel Herland.

Jiahui Wang

Teaching, Learning & Curriculum Studies, Kent Campus

Dr. Jiahui Wang is an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Kent State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration in Educational Technology from the University of Florida. Her research investigates how individual learner differences shape the way students engage with STEM content in technology-rich environments, with a growing emphasis on the role of artificial intelligence in education. She examines the underlying cognitive and attentional processes that occur while students interact with educational technologies, using advanced process measures such as visual attention, neural oscillations, and digital trace data (e.g., mouse clicks). By analyzing these multimodal learning signals, Dr. Wang’s work provides insights into how AI-driven tools can adapt to learners’ needs and personalize instruction.