Emily Hunt-Hinojosa
Director of Academic Excellence Initiatives
Assistant Clinical Professor of Civic Formation and Social Innovation
Emily serves as the Director of Academic Excellence Initiatives in the Office of Engaged Learning. Collaborating closely with communities, her work primarily facilitates high impact academic experiences that integrate academic coursework with the world and enhance student learning beyond the classroom, with the goal of forming an engaged and conscious citizenry. Emily teaches classes in the Philanthropy and Public Service Program at Baylor where she helps students understand the longings and limits of civil society to achieve social change. She leads Baylor’s involvement in the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative, a community of practice committed to creating just inclusive, and sustainable communities through experiential learning.
As a member of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina, she is inspired by the political, spiritual, and communal dimensions of indigenous life in North America and how indigeneity relates to our contemporary conceptions of citizenship and "the good life." Her recent publications are related to paradigms and postures of civic and moral education, including an article responding to critiques of the New Civics Movement in Teachers College Record and Imagining Structural Stewardship: Lessons from The Highlander Folk School in Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy. She practices intersectional work across the academy and the community, values multiple ways of knowing, and embraces critical pedagogy. She is currently working on her first book about Kinship and the Ivory Tower.
Her previous roles have included leading a residential service-learning program at Creighton University, a research fellowship at Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, a fellowship at the Ormond Center at Duke Divinity School, and serving Prosper Waco as the Director of Research and Community Impact.
She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Baylor University and a Masters in Higher Education and Student Development from Taylor University.