Caleb Lee González is a fifth-year PhD student specializing in Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy. He is a 2022 national recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award in Higher Education from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He has supported the Department of English as the administrative assistant (2021-2022) for the Minor in Professional Writing. Furthermore, he was a consultant for Writing Across the Curriculum (2022-2023) and an associate coordinator (2021-2022) for the Writing Center in the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW). Currently, he is a Graduate Enrichment Fellow through the support of the Graduate School. He also serves on the Editorial Board and Publications Review Board of the WAC Clearinghouse.

His work is shaped by his undergraduate education as a first-generation, transfer and commuter student at three Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and two emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (eHSIs) in Colorado and Texas. His research examines how first-year writing programs at HSIs and eHSIs both shape and are shaped by their designation through programmatic practices such as the design of writing objectives and goals, placement procedures, curricula & instruction, instructor training activities and assessment. As a committed researcher-teacher-administrator, his interests are motivated by programmatic practices of education that support and sustain equity, inclusion and transformation.

Selected Publications

• Kelly, Megan J., Heather Falconer, Caleb L. González and Jill Dahlman, editors. “Adapting the past to reimagine possible futures: Celebrating and critiquing WAC at 50.” The 15th Biennial International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, 2023. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1947
• González, Caleb. “Making Research Methods Visible through the Alternative Table of Contents.” Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration, edited by Leigh Graziano, Kay Halasek, Remi Hudgins, Susan Miller-Cochran, Frank Napolitano, and Natalie Szymanski, Utah State University Press, 2023, pp. 264-276.
• Doe, Sue, Lilly Halboth, Kira Marshall-McKelvey, Ross Atkinson, Caleb González, and Jennifer Owen. “How the Student Taught the Teacher in a Graduate Autoethnography Class.” Self+Culture+Writing: Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies, edited by Rebecca Jackson and Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Utah State University Press, 2021, pp. 145-157.
• Caleb González. “On Writing in Two Languages in the Creative Writing Workshop.” Writing on the Edge, vol. 30, no. 2, 2021, pp. 1-8. Honorable Mention for the 2020 Donald Murray Prize for Creative Nonfiction.