Dr. Dura’s interdisciplinary work centers on how health/advocacy/environmental change-related messages are structured most effectively in the design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of organizational, system, culture, and social change interventions or research.

• Placement on Fulbright Specialist Roster - U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (10/01/2023-10/31/2023)
• Chair of the Advisory Board - Texas Center for Legal Ethics (05/01/2022-05/31/2022)
• Best Webtext Award in Kairos Journal - Computers and Writing Conference (05/20/2022)
• Poster Award - Lung Association UNION North America (02/24/2012)
• Featured Member - Plexus Institute (01/01/2012-01/31/2012)

• Ph D in Eng Rhetoric & Composition, The University of Texas at El Paso (2011)
• MA in English , The University of Texas at El Paso (2006)

• Other - A Wicked Approach to Racial and Other Categories. (04/01/2023-04/30/2023). TEDx Talk. TEDx El Paso and El Paso Community Foundation. El Paso, Texas, U.S.. Lucia Dura.

• Place-Based Servingness at a Fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Call for Borderland Servingness AERA Annual Meeting (in press), Christina Convertino, Isaac Frausto, Lucia Dura.
• Pictorial Representations of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Views about Science Teaching and Learning Cultural Studies of Science Education 18 2 (2023), William Medina-Jerez, Lucia Dura, Maria Perez-Piza.
• Pictorial Representations of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Views about Science Teaching and Learning Cultural Studies of Science Education 18 2 (2023), William Medina-Jerez, Lucia Dura, Maria Perez-Piza.
• Challenging translingualism through panoramic ethos: Three transnational graduate students’ pathways across multiliteracies (2023), Corina Lerma, Moises Garcia-Renteria, Patricia Flores, Katherine W. Mangelsdorf, Lucia Dura.
• The border soundcapes project: Pursuing border identity through sound Kairos 26 1 (2021), Jose M. Flores, Lucia Dura.
• Wisdom in action—The positive deviance approach: An alternative conceptualization of communication and social change praxis Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), Arvind Singhal, Mohammed Shafique, Monique Sternin, Lucia Dura.
• Navigating messy research methods and mentoring practices at a bilingual research site on the U.S.-Mexico border Technical Communication Quarterly 29 4 (2020), Beau Pihlaja, Lucia Dura.
• Food Pedagogy as an Instructional Resource in a Science Methods Course Innovations in Science Teacher Education 5 3 (2020), William J. Medina-Jerez, Lucia Dura.
• Evaluation Report for the “Building Capacity—Specialized Foster Care Program” El Paso Center for Children (2020), Lucia Dura, Robert McCreary, Christopher Villa.
• Nutrition, Health, and Wellness at La Escuelita: A Community-Driven Effort toward Food and Environmental Justice Community Literacy Journal 14 1 (2020), Lucia Dura.
• Teaching and Researching with a Mental Health Diagnosis: Practices and Perspectives on Academic Ableism Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 3 2 (2020), Ann Green, A. , Lucia Dura, P. Harris, L. Heilig, B. Kirby, J. McClintick, E. Pfender, Rebecca Carrasco.
• When technical solutions are not enough: Engaging everyone in patient safety (2020), Lucia Dura.
• Nutrition, Health, and Wellness at La Escuelita: A Community-Driven Effort toward Food and Environmental Justice Community Literacy Journal 14 1 (2019), Victor J. Del Hierro, Valente F. Saenz, Laura Gonzales, Lucia Dura, William J. Medina-Jerez.
• Creating a bilingual, localized glossary for end-of-life decision-making (2019), Lucia Dura, Laura Gonzales, Guillermina Solis.
• Habits as building blocks for the resilience of vulnerable populations on the U.S.-Mexico border Health Promotion and Practice 20 6 (2019), Maria Sajquim de Torres, Lucia Dura.
• La salud en mis manos: Localizing Health and Wellness Literacies in Transnational Communities through Participatory Art and Mindfulness PresentTense 7 3 (2019), Patricia Flores, Ma I. Maier, Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, Lucia Dura, Laura Gonzales.
• Positive Deviance inquiry design: Challenging notions of stasis Journal of Business and Technical Communication 33 4 (2019), Lucia Dura.

• Considering Power Over, With, and To in Equity Conversations (2023), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• Play with Constraints: Improvisation to Elicit Explicit, Tacit, and Latent Knowledge (2023), Volume Denver, Colorado, Lucia Dura.
• What excites you about technical communication right now?” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference (2023), Volume Virtual, Felicity Carmichael, Huiling D. , Lucia D. , Cana Itchuaquiyak, C. Joyner, Y. Kong, April O'Brien, Nora Rivera, Gerald Savage, Cecilia Shelton, Jason Tham.
• From KAP to PAK in Gender, Communication, and Development (2023), Volume Kathmandu, Nepal , Lucia Dura.
• Rhetorics of Inquiry Design: Building Trust within Constraints in Human(e) Research (2023), Volume Arlington, Texas, Lucia Dura.
• Preparing for Career Diversity in the Humanities: Strategy + Passion (2023), Volume Arlington, Texas, Lucia Dura.
• Abara House Convening Using Liberating Structures (2022), Volume El Paso, TX, Lucia Dura.
• Liberating Structures: Design with Purpose & Accountability in Mind (2022), Volume Canutillo, TX, Lucia Dura.
• Designing for Reciprocity within Constraints: The Power of Micro Moves and Microstructures in Community and Organizational Contexts (2022), Volume Provo, Utah, Lucia Dura.
• Imagining Just Futures Grounded in Purpose and Accountability (2022), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• Preparing Larger-scale Grant Proposals through an Equity Lens (2022), Volume Virtual, Bill Hart-Davidson, Lucia Dura.
• Co-Authoring Course Expectations with Students (2022), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• The Work of the Hispanic Servingness Research Council at UTEP (2021), Volume UTEP, Convertino Christina, Dura.
• Launching UTEP's Hispanic Servingness Research Council (2021), Volume UTEP, Christina Convertino, Jesus Cisneros, Lucia Dura, Danielle Morales, Azuri Gonzalez , Cole Joslyn, Edna Martinez, Jeffrey Olimpo.
• Using an Asset-Based Approach to Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2021), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• Building Efficacy Among the Most Vulnerable Through Positive Deviance: Implications for Addressing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (2021), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura, Arvind Singhal.
• How Asset-Based Inquiry Methods Can Reveal Solutions (2021), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• Anchoring Accountability for Graduate Communication in the Annual Review Process (2021), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• Negotiating Values, Beliefs, and Norms in a Binational Collaboration Through Translation and Participatory Design (2021), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.
• “Mom’s Home!: Parenting and Teaching Remotely During the Pandemic" (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Melissa C. Warak, Penelope P. Espinoza, Fatima S. Masoud, Lucia Dura, Kim Mckean.

• Empowering the Next Generation of Highly Skilled STEM Professionals through Access, Intentionality, and Effectiveness
• UTEP Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project