Meet The Team

Dr. Winkelmes is the Founder, Director, and Principal Investigator of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed), which promotes direct conversation with students about methods of teaching, learning, advising, and mentoring and helps educators to choose practices grounded in evidence about students' learning shared across institutions and countries on six continents. The impact of this project on students' learning and persistence in college has been the focus of Winkelmes's publications in the National Teaching and Learning Forum, Project Information Literacy, the National Education Association's Higher Education Advocate, and the AAC&U's Liberal Education and Peer Review, as well as interviews and podcasts, book chapters, peer reviewed articles, and the book Transparent Design in Higher Education Teaching and Leadership. Her work to improve higher education learning and teaching, especially for historically underserved students, has been recognized nationally by the Chronicle of Higher Education and the POD Network's Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Education Development.

Dr. Winkelmes has provided hundreds of keynote addresses and invited workshops at colleges, universities, philanthropic institutions, and learning organizations in the U.S. and abroad, working with students, instructors, staff, and leadership to support small, evidence-based changes to education and institutional planning that yield significant success.

Dr. Winkelmes has held senior leadership roles in the campus teaching centers at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Brandeis University. She has offered instruction as a member of history and art history departments at most of those institutions. She has consulted and provided professional development programming and analyses for the Lilly Endowment's higher education grant-making and teacher-training programs, and for teaching centers and learning organizations in the U.S. and abroad. She has also served two terms as a senior fellow of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and as an executive board member of Nevada Humanities, an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Professional Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), and chair of its Research Committee.

Winkelmes has also published on the history of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy, Benedictine church design and decoration, acoustics, and religious architecture. She has received numerous teaching awards as well as grants for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kress, Delmas, and Mellon foundations.

Winkelmes holds a PhD from Harvard University.