Dr. Leila Brammer is Director of Curriculum at the University of Chicago’s Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression and a leader in democratic pedagogy, assessment design, and institutional implementation. She received national recognition for civic-learning curriculum design from both the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the National Communication Association. She co-developed AAC&U’s VALUE rubric for Civic Engagement, served as a Higher Learning Commission reviewer, and designed national faculty-development seminars andassessment instruments for the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
Among her multiple teaching honors are the International Communication Association’s Outstanding Teacher Award and the President’s Civic Engagement Steward Award. Her scholarship includes Excluded from History: Matilda Joslyn Gage (Greenwood, 2000), articles in Communication Education and Teaching Communication Across the Disciplines, and a chapter in Deliberative Pedagogy and Democratic Engagement (MSU Press, 2017). She authored educational deliberation guides for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument.
Recent engagements include fellowships at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute and the University of Melbourne; invited panelist at the American Enterprise Institute/Johns Hopkins Civic Thought and Practice.
