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)

• 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.

• 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.

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