Sunwall, Lane

Teaching, Learning and Technology Consultant
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Lane Sunwall has served as a Teaching, Learning and Technology Consultant at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) since 2018. At CETL, Lane leads initiatives to enhance faculty development and teaching practices, including the Active Teaching Lab, a weekly workshop for faculty to share innovative teaching methods. In addition, he leads the annual New TA Orientation, launched the UWM Teaching Fellowship, which supports teaching assistants in their educational development, and co-developed the Educators Institute, a semester-long pedagogy course for faculty.

As an instructor, Lane has taught courses in history, religious studies, and pedagogy at UW-Milwaukee, UW-Madison and at Minot State University. In all of his courses (face-to-face, blended, or online) Lane strives to facilitate active student engagement with course content, create clear learning objectives, and foster a classroom environment that encourages students to engage critically with course material. His course design involves rigorous research, iterative design, and a willingness to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

Lane is also a historian of modern Britain and contemporary Christianity. His work explores religion and immigration in contemporary UK, the conflicted relationship between faith and ideas of modernity, as well as the development of transnational evangelicalism.

Additional information about Lane and his work can be found at www.lanesunwall.com.