Janet Lawler
Honors College Faculty
Email: jmlawler@central.uh.edu
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Janet Lawler is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Honors College, where she supports civic and community engagement and teaches for the College’s interdisciplinary minors. She writes on ethical and normative questions at the intersection of digitality and democracy and frequently contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning. She earned her PhD in Politics from the University of Virginia and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the University of Houston in Fall 2023. She currently directs the Community Advocacy & Responsive Engagement (CARE) program.