Lloyd International Honors College

Eric B. Toler

Program Manager & Senior Academic Advisor, North Spencer Residential College

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(336) 334-9371

Eric B. Toler (he/him/they/them) is Program Manager and Senior Academic Advisor of North Spencer Residential College in Lloyd International Honors College. Eric earned his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies at UNC Greensboro. He has worked with the Honors College since 2018, when he joined as a graduate assistant and joined the Honors Ensemble full-time in 2020. Eric regularly teaches courses in the Honors College and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNCG.

In his role with the Honors College, Eric maintains student data and information, advises Honors students, oversees the Honors Ambassadors, and teaches Honors courses. His original Honors courses include (Re)Imagining Freedom: Personhood, Human Rights, and the Perils of Inclusion; LGBTQ History and Theory; How to Change the World: An Introduction to Key Issues in Social Justice; and Dreaming the World Differently: Theory and Activism as Generative Practices.

Eric’s M.A. thesis examines the gay social networking application Grindr as a critical site of the (re)production of queer respectability and abjection, as well as its potential for queer world-making and the troubling of public and private spaces as distinct realms. Their academic research interests primarily center queer theory, critical pedagogy, feminism, social justice education, and critical community building. They are passionate about education, advocacy, and making the world a more socially just place.

Outside of their work life, Eric is an avid reader, animal lover, yoga practitioner, and plant dad extraordinaire. Stop by his office for a cup of tea and a chat sometime!