Lisa Keranen, Ph.D.

University of Colorado, Global Education Coordinator

Lisa is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Denver. Her award-winning teaching of undergraduate and graduate students led to her being named one of the University of Colorado’s Distinguished Teaching Fellows. Her award-winning scholarship includes Scientific Characters, a book about breast cancer research misconduct; she is one of the co-editors of Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in the Age of Globalization; for over a decade has taught classes in China; and has published widely on bioethics in medical and health controversies.