Emily Heidrich Uebel

(She/Her)

heidric6@msu.edu
517-355-8375
Wells B205 & B430

Academic Specialist

Center for Language Teaching Advancement

Biography

Emily Heidrich Uebel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Resource Center and Academic Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement. In August 2025, she also assumed the duties of the LCTL Coordinator, FLTA Supervisor, and BTAA CourseShare Coordinator in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures.

From 2016-2025, she was the Grant/Project Manager for the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant project focused on improving instruction in less commonly taught languages.

She was the lead co-editor of two volumes on language enrollment topics and sharing LCTLs across institutions. Her work on a variety of topics, including language proficiency and technology, has been published in several journals and edited volumes. Her research interests include proficiency in languages, educational technology and online instruction, curriculum design, and education abroad topics. Emily loves to spend her time outside the office doing crafts, playing board games, drinking tea, doing DIY projects, traveling, and enjoying time with her family.

Works

A full list of presentations and publications can be found on Emily’s CV on her personal website.

Selected Publications:

Heidrich Uebel, E., Kraemer, A. & Giupponi, L. (Eds.). (2023). Sharing LCTLs in Higher Education: Collaboration and Innovation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349631
Heidrich Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F. & Sterling, S. (Eds.). (2023). Language Program Vitality in the United States – From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3
Van Gorp, K., Heidrich Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F., & Murphy, D. (2024). How Important Is Studying Languages for Undergraduate Students and Why (Not) Study Languages? Foreign Language Annals. http://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12783
- Winner of the Stephen A. Freeman Award, which recognizes “the best published article on teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal during the preceding year”
- Nominated for the ACTFL/NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education. An annual award in the ACTFL awards program, the Pimsleur Award recipient(s) shall be the author(s) of an outstanding contribution to research in world language or second language education, published in the previous calendar year.

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