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Administrator, Research and Grant Development

Nancy Ellis is a Research and Grant Administrator with the Graduate Center’s Office of Fellowships.

Associate Director of the Graduate Center Office of Fellowships
Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab
Assistant Professor of Practice, Graduate College

Dr. Shelley Hawthorne Smith is an Assistant Professor of Practice who serves as the Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab and Graduate Center Office of Fellowships. Committed to supporting graduate students’ development as writers, she created and runs the Fellowship Application Development Programs for students applying for graduate level funding. She also supports graduate writers in Writing Efficiency Sessions and other programs. Dr. Hawthorne Smith earned an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona.

Graduate Assistant, Fellowship and Writing Support

Thais Rodrigues Cons works as a Graduate Assistant for the Graduate Center Office of Fellowships (GCOF) and the Graduate Writing Lab (GWL). With a Master's in Applied Linguistics, years of experience teaching English as an Additional Language, and expertise in editing, translating, and working with technical genres, Thais is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition & the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona. She previously served as a consultant and researcher at CAPA, the first Writing Center in her home country Brazil.