Jill Abney

Associate Director

Dr. Jill Abney is the associate director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching where she directs CELT’s Teaching Innovation Institute and serves as the associate director of the UK-JHF Holocaust Education Initiative. She also teaches courses for UK’s department of history such as history research methods and war and society. Dr. Abney’s pedagogical research interests include fostering belonging in the classroom and inclusive teaching. As a historian she has a background of research in gender, rhetoric, politics, and power. Prior to arriving at UK she held positions as an assistant teaching professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a secondary social studies teacher in Madison County, Kentucky.

• PhD History, University of Kentucky
• CELTic since 2019