About ME

Stephanie Maher Palenque is an associate professor, researcher, and writer in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Grand Canyon University. Her scholarship focuses on writing education, online instruction, and faith integration in the classroom. She has presented her work in these areas at professional conferences and as a contributor to academic and peer-reviewed journals. Palenque won a Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from GCU in 2015 and was the co-recipient of a scholarly engagement grant in which she studied plagiarism from a faculty perspective in the online modality. She is currently working on her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Psychology with an emphasis in Cognition and Instruction.

Outside of the classroom, Stephanie is a competitive powerlifter who is in the gym at least five times per week at 4 a.m. She plans to compete in the USPA Femme Fatale competition in September, 2022.