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 Teaching Fellowship (TF)
2005-2006 Teaching Fellows
Amisi, Bertha Kadenyi
Bertha Amisi is a Ph.D candidate, and teaching associate (2005-2006) in the Department of Political Science. She is from Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to undertaking graduate work, in Fall 2002, she was program advisor at the Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa, a pan-African peace resource organization. She also served for five years as a regional policy analyst on conflict and humanitarian affairs with the ActionAid - Africa Regional Office. She worked with senior management teams from various country programs in Africa, to develop policies for working in conflict and disaster prone situations and to design peace- building programs. She has an M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research interests include political conflict theories, politics of peace-building and transitional justice, globalization and state society relations in Africa. Her other interests include reading literary works, journaling and swimming. She loves to sing and is a member of the Syracuse Community Choir.
Burdick, Corrie
Corrie Burdick is a third year doctoral student in teaching and curriculum and art education. Corrie came to pursue her doctoral degree at Syracuse after teaching art in Florida and Georgia for the past 10 years. While teaching in a private school outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Corrie developed a particular interest in working with students with disabilities in the art room. At Syracuse, Corrie hopes to translate her interest in women's studies, art education and disability studies into her research. Corrie is a teaching assistant serving in the Department of Art Education.
Call, David
David Call was born and raised in Pennsylvania and received a meteorology degree from Penn State in 1998. He earned his M.A. in geography in 2004 from Syracuse University and is now pursuing his Ph.D. For his Master's thesis, Dave examined the impact of major snowstorms on large cities in upstate New York, and his dissertation will probably extend this prior research. In his spare time, he enjoys working as a fill-in meteorologist for WSTM-TV, traveling and working on his house.
Calvert-Minor, Chris
Chris Calvert-Minor is a fourth-year doctoral student in philosophy at Syracuse University. While he loves to collect unique artifacts such as voodoo dolls and antique religious items, his real passion is to bring philosophy out of the ivory tower and make it relevant and important to everyday living. He tries to accomplish this through teaching introductory courses in philosophy and in his research on pragmatism, feminism and the real knowing context. He currently lives in Canastota with his wife Deilee.
Flad, Jennifer
Jennifer Flad is a third year teaching assistant in the sociology department. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in medical sociology using a variety of feminist and qualitative methodologies. She has taught sections of the "Introduction to Sociology" class for the last four semesters.
Gillett-Kunnath, Miriam
Miriam Gillett-Kunnath is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Syracuse University. Her research is directed towards the development of alkaline earth metal amides to be used as nitride precursors for semiconductors via chemical vapor deposition techniques. She has been a teaching assistant for recitation sessions in general chemistry, Chemistry in the Modern World Lab and Honors Chemistry Lab. Apart from interacting with students and long lab hours, she enjoys traveling, hanging out with family and friends, learning about new cultures and watching Hindi movies.
Guino-o, Marites A.
Marites Guino-o is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the department of Chemistry at Syracuse University. Her research is focused on Organometallic synthesis of air sensitive complexes of Group II metals. The research group under Dr. Karin Ruhandt where she belongs also emphasizes on the Crystallography. She has taught both General Chemistry and Honors General Chemistry Laboratory for undergraduate students. Other than spending long hours in the lab, she likes to takes a break by swimming and enjoying traveling, watching movies, and tasting different cuisines.
Guzman, Indira
Indira Guzman is a Bolivian Ph.D. candidate in information science and technology in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Her research interests include the impact of information technology in organizations -- specifically, the role and culture of IT workers. Her dissertation, supported by the NSF, is aimed to improve recruitment and retention strategies of women and minorities in IT. Other topics of her interest include information security in organizations and digital government. Indira received her B.S./M.S. (1991) in computer science from Polytechnic Institute of Donetsk, Ukraine, an M.S. (2000) in banking in finance from Bolivian Catholic University and an M.S. (2002) in information management from Syracuse University.
Harbin, Tracy
Tracy Harbin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science. She has received her B.A. in political science and her B.S. in international business from Millikin University and her M.A. in international relations from Syracuse University. For her dissertation, she is investigating the role of trust in the political system at both the national and the European levels of government. During the past two years, she has served as a teaching associate and the PFF representative for the Political Science department. Her teaching experience includes courses in American government and in conflict resolution.
Hejnova, Petra
Petra Hejnova is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Before moving to the U.S., Petra worked as a Director for Education of the Gender Studies Center, an academic non-profit organization in her native Prague. While pursuing her degree at Syracuse, she has been spending her summers coordinating university programs and teaching undergraduate courses in the Czech Republic and just recently in Latin America. Petra's research interests include women's political participation, social policy and the politics of post-communist Europe.
Lieb, Kristin
Kristin Lieb is a doctoral student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She also attended SU as an undergraduate, studying magazine journalism and American history. In between her stints at SU, Lieb completed her MBA at Northeastern University and worked in several different media-related capacities. She was a freelance writer for numerous publications including Billboard and Rolling Stone, a vice-president of business development for a music retailer, a record label and two entertainment-related software companies and a case writer for Harvard Business School. On a personal note, do not get her started about the Boston Red Sox or Elvis Costello.
Lutz, Heather
Heather Lutz is a student in the Whitman School of Management. She is entering her third year in the supply chain management Ph.D. program. Heather has a B.S. in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from The George Washington University. Currently a graduate teaching assistant, Heather taught SCM 401 the past year at SU.
Martin, Craig
Craig Martin is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion. His research broadly covers social, political and ethical questions in the history of Western philosophy and Christian thought, from ancient Greece to the present. His dissertation project, titled "Policing Public/Private Borders: Religion, Liberalism, and the Private Judgment of the Magistrate," argues that there is no unbiased way to draw the boundary between religion and the state in a liberal democracy. Outside of the university, Craig enjoys watching scary movies, playing guitar, reading Mark Twain, rooting for NFL football and spending time with his wife, Erica.
Reitenbach, Markus
Markus Reitenbach is a mathematics graduate student who has studied in Germany, Santa Barbara and Syracuse -- it was a Fulbright scholarship that lead him to SU. He is currently trying to find the job of his dreams as a professor in a nice, sunny place. His area of research is "differentiation algorithms for poset representations" -- whatever that is? To get his mind off abstract algebra, he enjoys doing fun things like driving from coast-to-coast, wine tasting and rock climbing.
Schneider-Ludorff, Amata
Having always been bookish, Amata Schneider-Ludorff studied German and English literature and philosophy at Frankfurt University, where she finished with an M.A. Her involvement with the Feminist Philosophers' Group at Frankfurt's philosophy department not only exposed her to learning without teaching, but also radically re-shaped the questions she asked of English literature and inspired the dissertation project on globalization, space and subjectivity in early modern English literature she is currently working on. Unfortunately, she occasionally lets herself be distracted by attending anti-war demonstrations or organizing queer film festivals, which is why she's still lingering on at Syracuse University.
Sengupta, Nandini
Nandini Sengupta is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Syracuse University. Prior to joining SU, she completed her B.A. and M.A. in English literature in India. She has been a teaching assistant in the Writing Program as well as a teaching associate in the English Department at SU where she taught a number of courses such as "Interpretation of Fiction," "Gender and Literary Texts" and "British Literary History." Her area of research is nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She is currently working on her dissertation on representations of inter-racial mixing in the literature emanating out of nineteenth-century colonial India. Her other areas of interest include the nineteenth-century British novel and gender and sexuality in Victorian literature and culture. When she is not busy with work, Nandini loves to cook (and eat!), read, watch movies, listen to music or just hang out with friends over coffee.
Singleton, Jonathan
Jon Singleton just earned an M.A. in English at Syracuse University, and this year he will begin further literary studies in the doctoral program. His academic interests include 19th Century British and American literature and critical theory. He is especially interested in the point at which critical theory meets Christian religious practice. As a teacher at Syracuse, Jon has grounded his writing courses in community-based research. His interest in the community extends to his life off campus, where he leads a church youth group for teenagers in Liverpool. Most of all, Jon loves spending time with his wife Julie, who "de-geeks" him, keeps him sane and reminds him how to have fun.
Smith, Claudia
Claudia Smith was born in Jamaica. Her educational achievements include a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's of Science from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In pursuing her Master's degree in economics, she discovered a passion for teaching. This passion led her to become a lecturer at the University of Science and Technology, Jamaica. Led by her passion for teaching, in July 2001 she came to Syracuse University to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. Claudia is a "people person" and loves to watch movies, listen to music and hang out with friends.
Smith, Kahsi
Kahsi Smith is a Ph.D student in Child and Family Studies, where she is the TA for graduate statistics and research methods. Kahsi is a second year teaching fellow and has recently been awarded an "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" from the Graduate School. She prefers to be called Kas because her name is so often butchered and mistakenly pronounced like the puffed rice cereal.
Sodano, Todd
Todd Sodano is a doctoral student in the Social Science program of the Maxwell School. His research interests include the HBO series "The Wire," television's crime drama and bureaucracy in government and on television. He earned his M.A. in television-radio-film from the Newhouse School. He worked for NBA Entertainment for three full seasons as a production assistant on NBA action and during All-Star weekends. He graduated from Cornell University in 1999 with a B.S. in communication. He has appeared as an extra on "The Sopranos," and his life seems to revolve around HBO Sunday nights, the Yankees and Bruce Springsteen. He has been a teaching assistant for TRF and Sociology courses at SU since Spring 2003.
Swords, Diane R
Diane Swords is Ph.D candidate in Social Science in the Maxwell School. During her time at SU she has been a Teaching Associate in Women’s Studies, a Graduate Assistant in the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict, held a Hewlett Foundation Graduate Assistantship in Social Conflict Studies, and is currently a Part-time Instructor in Sociology. Her dissertation is on participatory democracy in anti-nuclear social movement organizations. Her early career as a public school teacher focused on classroom conflict resolution. She subsequently obtained experience as a social movement leader as Executive Director of Peace Action CNY.
Thibodeau, Ryan
Ryan Thibodeau is a fourth year graduate student in SU's Clinical Psychology program. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Maine in 2001. He is actively engaged in research in the areas of health psychology, psychophysiology and emotion. Ryan has taught undergraduate courses in introductory psychology and personality, and considers teaching an important and rewarding pursuit. Included among his favorite pastimes is a rather unhealthy devotion to the Boston Red Sox, who, by the way, won the World Series in 2004 and will likely repeat in 2005.
White, Rebecca
Rebecca White is an MFA candidate in computer art. She has a strong commitment to Central New York - growing up in nearby Clinton, NY and received her BFA in graphic design from SUNY Oswego. Rebecca is invested in the idea of interdisciplinary study and the combination of art practice with theory and plans to pursue a career
in academia. Research interests include women and technology, cyberfeminist space and women's work.
Zuniga, Maria Felisa
Maria Felisa Zuniga, fondly called by her nickname Phey, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. She earned her Bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of the Philippines, where she also worked as a laboratory instructor for a few years before coming to SU. At SU, she has been a TA for laboratory courses. She was one of the recipients of the "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award" in 2004 from her department for facilitating the honors general chemistry laboratory class. Her research focuses on organometallic compounds of alkali and alkaline earth metals and their synthetic and industrial applications. Apart from chemistry, her other interests include food, books and the outdoors. She also enjoys skiing, biking and hiking.
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