CARBONDALE — In just their second year on Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s faculty, K. Allison Hammer’s deep commitment to advancing diversity, gender equity and inclusion both in the classroom and the community is making a positive difference.

Since arriving at SIU Carbondale in August 2023, Hammer, the university’s 2025 Excellence Award Emerging Leader recipient, is reinvigorating the women, gender and sexuality studies (WGSS) program with innovative and relevant curriculum in line “with the more contemporary and pressing issues” in today’s society, Sandy Pensoneau-Conway, an assistant professor and graduate coordinator in the School of Communication Studies, wrote in her nomination letter.

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