Carol Subiño Sullivan, Ph.D.
Associate Director
As the Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Subiño Sullivan creates opportunities for instructors at Georgia Tech to engage in professional learning opportunities and community that strengthen their commitment to and skill in creating learner-centered, evidence-based learning experiences for their students. She believes in creating joyful, creative professional learning experiences for all instructors, whether they are new to teaching or highly experienced instructors. As part of this work, she leads and contributes to signature programs, including Celebrating Teaching Day and Course Design Studio, organizes faculty recognition of teaching through the Center’s faculty teaching awards and several USG Regents Teaching Excellence Awards, fosters leadership in teaching and learning through the Provost Teaching and Learning Initiatives and Leaders in Teaching and Learning, supports instructors through consultations, workshops, and other projects, and engages with the higher ed community within and beyond Georgia Tech through the Teaching with the SDG Multi-Institutional Community of Practice and the POD Network. Subiño Sullivan contributes primarily through the faculty teaching and learning team and collaborates with the Learning and Technology and TA and Future Faculty Teams to support their initiatives and cross-team collaboration. Subiño Sullivan earned her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Indiana University in 2012 where her research focused on a Mexican community dedicated to the practice of traditional Guinean dance and drumming.
csubino@gatech.edu
Office
Clough 457
Teaching Interests
Pedagogy and Course Design
Mentoring and Educational Outcomes
Cultural Anthropology and Performing Arts
Courses: CETL 8717 Course Design in Higher Education and HTS 2813 Near Peer Mentoring: An Experience in Urban Education
Research Interests
Flexible Assessment Design
Well-Being and Learning
TA Preparation
Effective Teaching Practices
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Tech
Ph.D. Anthropology, Indiana University
M.A. Anthropology, Indiana University
B.A. Anthropology, University of South Florida
B.A. Dance Studies, University of South Florida
Recent Publications
Subiño Sullivan, Carol. (2022) “The Serendipitous Detour: Finding my way into educational development.” In Teaching as if Learning Matters: Next Generation Faculty Reflect on Community and Scholarly Teaching in Higher Education. Jennifer Meta Robinson, Katherine Kearns, Valerie Laughlin, and Laura Plummer (Eds). Indiana University Press.
Alicea-Muñoz, Emily, Carol Subiño Sullivan, and Michael Schatz. 2021. Transforming the preparation of physics graduate teaching assistants: Curriculum development. Physical Review Physics Education Research. 17, 020125. https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020125
Gormally, Cara, Carol Subiño Sullivan, and Nadia Szeinbaum. 2016. “Uncovering Barriers to Enacting Inquiry Teaching: Inconsistent facilitation techniques, student resistance, and reluctance to share control over learning with students.” Journal for Microbiology and Biology Education. 17(2):215-224. http://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/jmbe/10.1128/jmbe.v17i2.1038;jsessionid=fmonhtlclc1i.x-asm-books-live-01
Utschig, Tristan T. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, and Carol Subiño Sullivan. 2014. “Helping Teaching Assistants Foster Student-Centered Learning.” International Journal of Process Education. 6(1): 3-20.
Kearns, Katherine and Carol Subiño Sullivan. 2011. “Resources and practices to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows write statements of teaching philosophy.” Advances in Physiology Education. 35(2): 136-145.
Kearns, Katherine, Carol Subiño Sullivan, Valerie O’Laughlin, and Mark Braun. 2010. “A Scoring Rubric for Evaluating Statements: A Tool for Inquiry into Graduate Student Writing About Teaching and Learning.” Journal of College Teaching Excellence, 21(1), 73-96.
