Graduate Student Teacher of the Year

The School of Graduate Studies seeks nominations from colleges for outstanding graduate students to be considered for the Graduate Student Teacher of the Year. Submissions can only be made by the college deans’ offices, and each college may nominate only one student for this recognition.

This award is presented at the Robins Awards each spring. 

Dorcas Anabire

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | English

Dorcas Anabire is a Ph.D. candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow at Utah State University. Anabire has taught writing courses across two countries. At USU, she has taught a variety of courses, including general education and advanced major courses in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. She values experiential and collaborative learning. Dorcas actively partners with university centers such as the Writing Center and the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research, as well as international not-for-profit organizations, to enhance students' learning experiences. Her students work directly with these organizations and centers through these collaborations to produce real-world documents, and students can apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world scenarios. Among her favorite courses to teach are TCR 4210: Visual Communication Design, TCR 3100: Workplace Research, and TCR 2100: Introduction to Technical Communication. Her research focuses on ways design can address social justice issues in workplace and academic settings. Specifically, she is interested in how specific design practices can improve usability, user experience, and accessibility, especially in cross-cultural contexts and marginalized communities. She also researches inclusive recruitment practices for recruiting minoritized students, specifically international students in higher education.