Limed: Teaching with a Twist
Season 4, Episode 4

Participants from the Center for Engaged Learning’s research seminar on Mentoring Meaningful Learning Experiences were invited to share their responses to several mentoring related questions. Karina Hamamouche (Butler University), Alexis Hart (Allegheny College), Katia Levintova (University of Wisconsin Green Bay), and Gabi Pleschová (Comenius University) recorded their responses to a few guided questions about practices and misconceptions in mentoring. This month, hear the first of their rapid responses and join us again next month for a few more ideas you can act on. 

View a transcript of this episode.

Meet Our Panel

Karina Hamamouche is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Butler University. At Butler, Dr. Hamamouche teaches a range of courses, including Child Psychology, Lifespan Development, and Research Methods and Statistics. Outside of the classroom, she collaborates with several undergraduate researchers to investigate children’s developing sense of time and number. Dr. Hamamouche is also part of the Faculty in Residence program and lives on Butler’s campus. From 2023-2025, Dr. Hamamouche participated in the Center for Engaged Learning’s 2023-2025 research seminar on Mentoring Meaningful Learning Experiences, which cultivated her research interest in mentoring in undergraduate settings.  

Alexis Hart, Chair and Professor of English and Director of Writing at Allegheny College, was a participant in the Center for Engaged Learning’s 2023-2025 Research Seminar on Mentoring Meaningful Learning Experiences and is the editor of How to Start an Undergraduate Research Journal (CUR, 2012). Hart and her co-author Roger Thompson were co-recipients of the 2017 Braddock Award for the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing published in College Composition and Communication for “Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education.” Her work has also appeared in Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research Journal (SPUR), CUR Quarterly, Pedagogy, Composition Forum, and several edited collections, including The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, Veterans Studies, and the Post 9/11 University: A Field Guide.  

Katia Levintova is a Professor of Political Science, Global Studies, and Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB) where she teaches courses on comparative politics, American elections, international relations, and first year as well as senior seminars. Levintova also directs student internships in her area. Her research interests and publications focus on political sociology of post-Communist societies and societal determinants of foreign policy. She is co-editor (with Alison Staudinger) of Gender in Political Science Classroom (Indiana University Press, 2018). Among her most recent publications are Scholarship of Teaching and Learning works examining student parents and HIPs, active learning about sustainability, problem-based learning, and patterns of global education. She is a recipient of University of Wisconsin Regents Award for Teaching Excellence (2021), UW-Green Bay Founder Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019), and Student Nominated Teaching Award for both experienced and early career teachers at UWGB. Levintova is involved with the UWGB Center for Civic Engagement and its signature Civic Scholars Program bridging the gap between campus and community through a high-impact community-based learning. 

Gabriela (Gabi) Pleschová leads the Centre for Scholarship and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia, where she serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pedagogical Sciences. She is the author of The Long-Term Effects of Educational Development Programmes. Collaboration, Trust, and Leadership (2025, Palgrave) and co-editor of Trust in and through Academic Development (forthcoming Routledge).

Episode Credits

This episode was hosted and edited by Matt Wittstein, and produced by Matt Wittstein in collaboration with Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning.

Themes and music composed and produced by Kai Mitchell, Elon University Music Production and Recording Arts class of 2024. Kai produces music and releases it across streaming platforms with the producer’s name KVI. You can follow Kai on Instagram @theofficial_kvi. 

Show art was created by Jennie Goforth and Matt Wittstein. 

The Center for Engaged Learning uses Rev.com to create transcripts for each episode.  

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