Dr. Abigail (Abby) Konopasky joins the Department of Medical Education as inaugural Director, Medical Education Research and Scholarship and Associate Professor of Medical Education. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Princeton University and PhD in Educational Psychology and Research Methods from George Mason University. Dr. Konopasky graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Russian and French (summa cum laude). She comes to us from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. There she taught classes in research and teaching methods and educational theory and advised learners in the Health Professions Education (HPE) masters and doctoral programs. Drawing on both linguistics and psychology, Dr. Konopasky does qualitative and mixed methods research using linguistic tools to better understand inequity, agency, and resistance with currently and historically marginalized individuals. Additionally, she enjoys writing about the research methods and theories themselves and has published commentaries and chapters on narrative methods, linguistic methods, and theories of agency. She also enjoys her service work; she was an active member of USUHS’ diversity committee, co-creating a faculty development program supporting allyship and antiracism and she will continue serving as a deputy editor at Teaching and Learning in Medicine and a Member-at-Large for Division I, Education in the Professions, for the American Educational Research Association.