Honors Program Directory

Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities

Why Honors? As a teacher, I believe strongly in the power of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to provide students with exceptional educational experiences, both by building bridges between things they already know and new content and by demonstrating the connections... (more)

(801) 422-7891| julie_allen@byu.edu | 3025 JFSB

Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities

Why Honors? The Honors program is a wonderful opportunity to get out of our normal academic comfort zones and dialogue with others while thinking together about fascinating and thorny questions, the kinds of questions...

(801) 422-1616 | michael_j_call@byu.edu | 3039 JFSB

Program Assistant, Honors Program | Economics & Spanish

Britton is an Honors student from Meridian, Idaho studying Economics and Spanish with a minor in Mathematics. He loves the honors program because it challenges his thinking...

(801) 422-3036 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Biology | Life Sciences

Why Honors? I love the intersection of disciplines as it allows us to see information in a new way. The Honor’s program allows me to help students discover this amazing space for learning.

(801) 422-6207| mary_davis@byu.edu |3129 LSB

Associate Professor, Experience Design & Management | Marriott School

Why Honors? I love BYU’s Honors Program because it’s a space for individuals from diverse disciplines to come together and wrestle with interesting questions...

(801) 422-3834 | duerden@byu.edu | W435 TNRB

Associate Professor, English | Humanities

Why Honors? The interdisciplinarity, the chance to team teach with a good friend, and (so I’m told since I’m new to the program) the amazing students. I’m excited to teach...

| emron_esplin@byu.edu | 4148 JFSB

Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities

Why Honors? Honors classes are simply more fun. They are less bound by the expectations of a major or minor program and involve professors (and students) trying out creative and collaborative approaches... (more)

(801) 422-6246| mhesplin@byu.edu | 3050 JFSB

Advisement Supervisor, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education

Vika manages all aspects of student advisement for the Honors Program. She is in charge of organizing different advisement workshops and student related events. She supervises the student-to-student advising and works directly with students...

(801) 422-1997 | vika_filimoeatu@byu.edu | 102B MSRB

Student Advisor, Honors Program | Humanities, International and Area Studies

Diana is a senior studying international relations. After graduation, she plans to travel and learn about the cultures of the world. She is either planning on going to law school or getting her MBA. She loves the Honors program because she is able to meet cool people every day.

(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Professor, School of Technology | Engineering & Technology

Why Honors? My undergraduate honor's experience opened my eyes to what a broad and integrated education could be and set me on a path of interdisciplinary scholarship that continues to this day. We need more scholars and thinkers who can see the world holistically as they swap and combine different disciplinary lenses.

(801) 422-7467 | dlhansen@byu.edu | 265 B CTB

Associate Professor, French & Italian| Humanities

Why Honors? Because Honors classes push us all--students and professors alike--to test new ideas, re-evaluate what we already know, and integrate that knowledge into our own realm of experience.

(801) 422-8179| jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu | 3139 JFSB

Student Advisor, Honors Program | Engineering and Technology, Physical and Mathematical Sciences

James is a sophomore majoring in Physics. Someday, he hopes to obtain a PhD and teach in am university as a professor because he loves learning and education. He loves the Honors Program because he feels like it creates a community...

(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Assistant Professor, History | Family, Home and Social Sciences

Why Honors? As global citizens we will need to prepare for future challenges. Through honor’s classes students may learn to analyze options in more innovative ways using the skills of asking questions of the evidence to elicit accurate understandings of our world, past, present, and hopefully future.

(801) 427683 | cisom-verhaaren@byu.edu | 2146 JFSB

Program Assistant, Honors Program | Pre-Business

Alexandra is pre-business hoping to major in Finance. She loves working in the Honors Program and being able to meet a variety of students...

(801) 422-3036 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Associate Professor, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science | Life Sciences

Why Honors? Because I like a challenge. I like the challenge of teaching and learning in a new way. I enjoy interacting with students and faculty that think differently than I do. It helps me to be more well-rounded and thoughtful about the difficult problems I am trying to solve in my research.

(801) 422-6671| jason_kenealey@byu.edu | S-249 ESC

Professor, Psychology | FHSS

Why Honors? Because my nerdy obsessions don’t respect disciplinary bounds. I love talking about the neuroscience and psychology of memory, but I also love learning and talking about music, literature, animal behavior, home canning, etc. The Honors program is a great way to explore new interdisciplinary connections.

(801) 422-2532 | kirwan@byu.edu |1074 KMBL

Associate Professor, History | FHSS

Why Honors? It is like a giant factory outlet mall for all the best that the university has to offer (at an affordable price…).

(801) 422-2145 | gmadsen@byu.edu| 2145 JFSB

Adjunct Faculty, Leadership | Honors Program & Marriott School

Why Honors? Each of us is a leader in multiple capacities, whether we have the title or not: family, church, business, community... the list goes on. Most of our opportunities to lead...

(801) 515-6500 | tmm@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Leadership Development Coordinator, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education

Rory works with students to help them identify opportunities to fulfill the Honors Leadership Development Experience requirement. He is the instructor for the affiliated practicum course - HONRS 390R, and manages the pre-approval and reporting...

(801) 422-8176 | rory_mcwhorter | 102 MSRB

Teaching Professor, Chemistry | Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Why Honors?

(801) 422- 4312| jennnifer_nielson@byu.edu | C-412 BNSN

Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese | Humanities

Why Honors? I know of no other program on campus as dedicated to tackling the pressing issues facing our world. The Honor’s program brings together faculty and...

801-422-2176 | rex_nielson@byu.edu | 3149 JFSB

Student Advisor, Honors Program | Business | Family, Home, and Social Sciences (Economics)

Kelsi is a junior studying Experience Design and Management with a minor in music. She loves to find unexpected connections, especially between design and business. She has grown to love the Honors Program and has developed a deep passion...

(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Student Advisor, Honors Program | Fine Arts & Communications, Education, Student Life

Rachel is a Music Education major with a Choral emphasis. She enjoys the interdisciplinary courses in the Honors Program that have balanced her college experience and expanded her interests beyond music. Rachel loves learning new languages,...

(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB

Teaching Professor, Theatre & Media Arts| Humanities

Why Honors? Because nowhere else on campus can you crash ideas from the most unexpected places against each other and harvest the coolest epiphanies. Nowhere else can you hang out with so many bright minds from so many far flung disciplines and crack open so much in common and such endless potential!

(801) 422-8130 | jeff_parkin@byu.edu |F-442 HFAC

Associate Professor, Biology | Life Sciences

Why Honors? Honors is about becoming more complete, compassionate, and able to think in new ways. The ability to think creatively, passionately, and spiritually matters in so many professions. The Honors program is about becoming someone who can examine problems outside of the box, which allows excellence to bubble out of who we are as we become someone richer in spirit and hope.

(801) 422-4145 | steven_peck@byu.edu | 4145 LSB

Assistant Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education

Julie manages the operational and academic functions of the Honors Program. She works directly with faculty, Alcuin Fellows, Department Coordinators, graduate assistants, Honors communications team, program staff and TAs. She is the liaison...

(801) 422-3038 | julie_radle@byu.edu | 102A MSRB

Professor, Music | Fine Arts & Communications

Why Honors?

(801) 422-6115 | stevericksmusic@gmail.com | C490 HFAC

Associate Professor, English | Humanities

Why Honors? Honors introduces students to the kind of curiosity, creativity, and interdisciplinary thinking required to address the type of “wicked problems” with which we will be grappling for the foreseeable future.

(801) 422-8968 | jamin_rowan@byu.edu| 4143 JFSB

Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities

Why Honors? The strength of the Honors program comes from the wide range of students who want to challenge themselves in new and interesting ways. Every class is filled with thought-provoking questions and comments that push all of us in ways we never expected at the outset. I always come away from the experience feeling inspired by how much our students will contribute to the world.

(801) 422-9078|csederholm@byu.edu | 3008-B JFSB

Associate Professor, Math Education | Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Why Honors? I love when my search for understanding pushes me to see the world in new ways, and I can’t think of a better way to do this than interacting with students and faculty...

(801) 422-3640 | atanner@mathedu.byu.edu | 187 TMCB

Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy | Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Why Honors? I feel that we, as a global society, need individuals who can think for themselves, following after truth wherever it leads and by whatever skills are required. We need...

(801) 422- 2111| verhaaren@physics.byu.edu | N247 ESC

Student Advisor, Honors Program | Life Sciences, Nursing

Lucy is a Biology major pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriott School of Business. She appreciates how the Honors program fuels her love for learning and challenges her to think in non-traditional ways. She enjoys hiking, playing pick-up...

(801) 422 - 5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB