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.

• Fulbright Specialist Placement: Kathmandu Nepal (May-June 2024) - Fulbright Specialist Program (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• 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)

• Starting a new social justice journal in the TPC discipline (in press), Godwin Agboka, Mike Duncan, Lucia Dura, Gerald Savage, Erin Trauth.
• 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.
• Compromiso, pertenencia, and empoderamiento: How faculty enact servingness to become empowerment agents for Latinx student success Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 24 1 (2024), Jesus Cisneros, Lucia Dura, Christina Convertino, Frausto Isaac.
• Imagine and play with the possibilities: Improv Prototyping within constraints (2024), 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.

• Place-Based Servingness at a Fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Call for Borderland Servingness (2024), Volume Philadelphia, PA, Christina Convertino, Isaac Frausto, Lucia Dura.
• “Implementing Asset-Based Approaches for More Socially Just Writing Programs, Community Engaged Classrooms, and Graduate Writing Contexts.” (2024), Volume Spokane, WA, Lauren M. Rosenberg, Lucia Dura, Maria I. Maier.
• Anchoring Asset-Based Mentoring Frameworks in Graduate Writing Pedagogy (2024), Volume Spokane, WA, Lucia Dura.
• Place-based servingness at a fronterizo Hispanic-serving institution: A call for borderland servingness (2024), Christina Convertino, Isaac Frausto Hernandez, Lucia Dura.
• Considering Power Over, With, and To in Equity Conversations (2023), Volume Virtual, Lucia Dura.

• Empowering the Next Generation of Highly Skilled STEM Professionals through Access, Intentionality, and Effectiveness (01/01/2024 - 12/31/2025) Sloan Foundation
• UTEP Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project (07/01/2021 - 01/31/2023) Council of Graduate Schools