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.

• 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)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Expanding the solution space: How asset-based inquiry can support advocacy in technical communication Routledge (2018), Lucia Dura.
• Leveraging assets through Appreciative Interviews in classrooms and communities Kendall-Hunt Publishing (2018), Lucia Dura.
• Using a positive deviance approach to influence the culture of patient safety related to infection prevention Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5 10 (2018), Pranavi Sreeramoju, Lucia Dura, M E. Fernandez-Rojas, A Minhajuddin, K Simacek, T B. Fomby, Brad Doebbeling.

• The Work of the Hispanic Servingness Research Council at UTEP (2021), Volume UTEP, Convertino Christina, Dura.
• 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.

• UTEP Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project