Office of Faculty Development

The Office of Faculty Development is staffed by senior and junior faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in all three categories of teaching, active scholarship or creative work, and service. They represent different disciplinary divisions and seek to share their wisdom and experience as teachers, scholars, and active community members with all faculty members. 

Carla Arnell, Senior Faculty Associate

Carla Arnell is a professor of English, Assistant Director of the Master of Liberal Studies Program, Director of Community Education, and on hiatus from serving as associate dean of faculty and director of the Office of Faculty Development. She has received the Bird Award, given to a member of the Lake Forest College community who demonstrates special intellectual fervor and commitment, and the William L. Dunn Award for outstanding scholarship and teaching. She is an active scholar, having recently published her book, Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel in Twentieth-Century England (State University of New York Press, 2026). She chaired the English department for two terms and has served on numerous College committees, including ARRC, PTS, and FPPC. 

Enrique Treviño, Senior Faculty Associate

Enrique Treviño is the Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2023 Great Teacher Award, and current chair of the department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Enrique is an active and prolific scholar, who collaborates regularly and internationally with other scholars, sharing his work at important conferences and publishing over 40 articles. In 2017, Enrique translated a book called Cuban Mathematical Olympiads, and he has two new articles about to appear, one on “Dynamical Systems Proof of an Elementary Number Theory Result” for The College Mathematics Journal and the other on “Partitioning Powers into Sets of Equal Sum” for The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. 

Rob Lemke, Senior Faculty Associate

Rob Lemke is a professor of economics, the Morten Professor of Public Policy, a former chair of the largest department on campus, winner of the 2019 Great Teacher Award and the 2017 Trustee Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership, and frequent member of major governance committees such as ARRC, FPPC, and PTS. He has carried high student advising loads, mentored countless senior theses and Richter scholars as well as a recent Rocco project on economic disparities between First-Nations and non-First Nations Australians. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and has a recent article in Managerial Economics, co-authored with Professor Nancy Tao and two Lake Forest College students, called “Examining the Complementary Relationship between Peer-to-Peer Lending and Traditional Banks in the United States."

Kimiko Matsumura, Junior Faculty Associate

Kimiko Matsumura is an assistant professor of art history. She is an outstanding teacher, whose teaching excellence was on display for all who attended her faculty colloquium presentation last year. Although she has been at the College only since 2023, she has already published her scholarly work and is very active in presenting her scholarship at conferences and symposia. Kimiko’s work integrates her background in biology, technology, and art, all of which inform the book she is working on, Modalities of Nature: The Habitat Diorama and Contemporary Art. Kimiko notes that she was inspired to participate as a junior fellow this year because of the positive impact the new tenure-track seminar had on her and because she is “attuned to current issues in higher ed teaching and willing to voice perspectives on the humanities and minority experiences.” 

Nora McLean, Junior Faculty Associate (Spring Semester)

Nora McLean is an assistant professor of psychology. Although she has been at Lake Forest College only since 2023, she is a seasoned, successful teacher and an active scholar, with fourteen peer-reviewed articles to her credit, reflecting her division-spanning interdisciplinary interests in psychology, biology, economics, and neuroscience. Her article “Psychosocial stress, hormones, and impulsivity/risk-taking in economic decision-making” just appeared in the 2024 Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Prior to coming to Lake Forest, Nora taught at nearby Carthage College, where she chaired the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee, which helped faculty in developing research in a small liberal arts college environment and provided and recommended funding. She notes that her teaching and research experience along with balancing two parental leaves position her well to mentor new faculty members.