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 Teaching Fellowship (TF)
2006-2007 Teaching Fellows
Banerjee, Payal
Payal Banerjee is an advanced doctoral student in the Sociology Department. Her doctoral work is in the area of immigration of South Asian high-tech workers to the U.S. Her publications have focused on race/ethnicity, globalization, and U.S. immigration policies, and on the relations between India and China. Her recent research focuses on liberalization of trade in services and transnational labor mobility. She likes to be involved in the many activities and projects of the TA Program.
Barton, Stacy
Stacy Barton, a filmmaker, artist, and teacher in the media arts, is interested in productions that seek awareness toward change in the global community on issues of human rights and equality—including social, political, economic, and gender-based. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in film production in 2003, and is currently studying toward an M.F.A. in film (with teaching assistantship) at Syracuse University. Additionally, she holds an adjunct position teaching Time Arts in the Foundation Art Department, and works with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival each year as its archivist and promo video producer.
Blouet, Helen
Helen Blouet is an anthropology graduate student with a focus on Caribbean historical archaeology. Her dissertation topic covers variations in burial practices on St. John, USVI and how they were impacted by social structures such as class, ethnicity, and religion from 1670 to 1917. She’s had the fortune of working with Teaching Associates and the Graduate School to develop professional development programs for interested graduate students. When Helen is not studying or teaching, she loves running, rock climbing, and biking.
Brown, Jenny
Jenny Brown is a third year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ohio Dominican University in 2003. She loves teaching undergraduates about psychology and finding interactive ways to demonstrate the application of psychological principles to real-world issues. Her research focuses on HIV prevention and health promotion among HIV-positive individuals. In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor activities, traveling, and ballet.
Burdick, Corrie
Corrie Burdick is a third year doctoral student in Teaching and Curriculum and Art Education. Corrie came to pursue her doctoral degree from Syracuse University 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. Here at Syracuse, Corrie hopes to translate her interest in Women’s Studies, Art Education, and Disability Studies into her research. Corrie is a TA serving in the Department of Art Education.
Call, David
David Call is a Ph.D. student in geography. He earned a B.S. from Penn State in 1998 (meteorology) and an M.A. from Syracuse in 2004 (geography). For his masters thesis, Dave studied the impacts of major snowstorms on cities in Upstate New York. His dissertation is a critique of how the National Weather Service and local emergency managers prepare for and deal with ice storms. In his spare time, he enjoys working as a part-time meteorologist for WSTM-TV, collecting counties, restoring old traffic signals, and praying that his wife doesn’t go into labor until after TA orientation..
Collins, Rachel
Rachel Collins received her B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Utah before arriving in Central New York in 2004. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Syracuse University and is in the process of preparing for qualifying examinations. During the past two years she has taught in the Writing Program, tutored for SummerStart, and has been involved in the Writers Guild. Her primary research and teaching interests include American modernist fiction, cultural geography, and theories of space and place. Her primary non-academic interests include gardening and goading her cats into pouncing on anything that moves.
Dunn, Shannon
Shannon Dunn received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology/Art History at New College of Florida in 2002. She is currently pursuing doctoral research on the historical archaeology of rural 18th and 19th century Ireland in the Anthropology Department at Syracuse University. She has participated in archaeological research in Florida and New York as well as Ireland and Northern Ireland. Shannon’s academic pursuits include critical and social theories, identity formation, the construction and perceptions of landscapes, and the relationships between archaeological practice, subjects and modern communities. Her personal interests include most genres of music (both listening and playing) and being outdoors, whether to ski, bike, climb, or hike whenever Syracuse weather allows.
Dwyer, Michael
Michael Dwyer is a third year Ph.D. student in English, specializing in American youth cultures and the cultural construction of adolescence. For the past two years Michael has worked for the Writing Program, teaching freshman and sophomore composition courses, working as a SummerStart writing tutor, and serving as a consultant for first-year teachers. He comes to Syracuse from Pittsburgh, after getting a B.A. in English at the University of Miami and an M.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon. Michael is also a principal editor of the e-zine Pittpunk, and a regular contributor to Unicorn Mountain.
Flad, Jennifer
Jennifer Flad is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology. She was a TA for three years teaching Introduction to Sociology. She is now teaching both introductory as well as advanced level sociology classes. This is her second year as a teaching fellow.
Gibson, Heather
Heather Gibson is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology with a focus on historical archaeology of the African Diaspora. Her dissertation looks at slavery in the French Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1998, Heather graduated from Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and French. She has served as a TA at Syracuse in cultural anthropology and archaeology and has past experience as an elementary school teacher. Heather spent 2004-05 on a Fulbright-Hays grant in France and Guadeloupe, and is now writing her dissertation, one page at a time. When she has free time, she enjoys movies, cooking, the outdoors, and (for stress relief) bad reality TV.
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 level and the European level 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.
Klivak, Lori
Lori Klivak is a second year Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology. Lori is originally from Syracuse. She received a B.A. from Colgate University in classical studies and an M.A. in anthropology from CUNY-Hunter College. She has served as a TA in anthropology for two years. Her current research explores projects of development managed locally by indigenous communities in Southern Mexico. Lori is married and enjoys spending her “free time” gardening and playing with her two cats, Bastian and Penny.
Krause-Loner, Shawn
Shawn Krause-Loner is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Religion. His research broadly focuses on New Religious Movements in the American context, particularly various forms of Neopaganism. Shawn has been a TA since his arrival in 2004 and has recently been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. He will be taking his comprehensive exams in the fall and will be teaching his FPP course, entitled “Cults and Covens” in the spring of 2007. Shawn’s dissertation, which is still in the planning phase, focus is on revival and reconstruction-ist Norse Pagan groups in the United States and their use of mythology in the construction of community and identity. To relieve the stress of the academic life, Shawn enjoys reading, gaming, and spending time with his wife, Lynette.
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 M.B.A. at Northeastern University and worked 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 music retailer, a record label and two entertainment-related software companies, and a case writer for Harvard Business School. On a personal note, don’t get her started about the Boston Red Sox or Elvis Costello.
Liu, Xiaoyan
Xiaoyan Liu is a doctoral student in Teaching and Leadership Programs in the School of Education. Her main area of academic interest is teacher education, in particular, the learning experiences of pre-service teachers in the context of field placements, and the interactions between host teachers and pre-service teachers. This is her second time as a teaching fellow since she enjoys helping people and making friends through TA orientation. In addition to academic work, she is also occupied with her little one, Brian, the joy of her life.
Lutz, Heather
Heather Lutz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Whitman School of Management studying supply-chain management. Originally from Pennsylvania, Heather studied mathematics at Penn State. Not knowing what to do with this degree, she went to George Washington University to get an M.B.A. After working a few years at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies in various supply-chain roles, Heather decided it was time to go back to school. Currently, she lives in Syracuse with her husband, Chris, and their two dogs. Heather has recently completed her first ½ marathon and is training for a full marathon in the fall.
Martin, Craig
Craig Martin is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion. He is currently working on his dissertation, which concerns the place of religion in liberal democracy. Apart from his research, Craig plays guitar, enjoys NFL football, reads novels, and watches far too much television with his wife, Erica.
Schneider-Ludorff, Amata
Having always been bookish, Amata Schneider-Ludorff studied German and English literature and philosophy at Frankfurt University, where she finished with a M.A. Her involvement with the Feminist Philosophers’ Group at Frankfurt 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.
Singleton, Jon
Jon Singleton is a Ph.D. student in the English department. Jon enjoys teaching, writing, and burying himself in Victorian fiction up to his eyeballs; but even more, he likes spending time with his wife, Julie, and their new daughter, Lydia Jane. This is Jon’s third year serving as a teaching fellow.
Smith, Kahsi
Kahsi Smith is a Ph.D. student in Child and Family Studies, where she is aTA 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, Lauren
Lauren Sodano is working toward dual masters degrees in art history and museum studies. She has been a TA for Arts & Ideas I and II for two semesters. Lauren’s interests include twentieth-century art, museum education, and endeavoring to incorporate the former into the latter. She enjoys exploring Central New York in search of a good meal and making lists of books she’d like to read if it weren’t for all that work.
Sodano, Todd
Todd Sodano is a Social Science Ph.D. student at the Maxwell School. His research interests include the HBO series The Wire and the social context in which this crime drama and niche market program is created. Todd earned his M.A. in Television-Radio-Film from the Newhouse School at SU. He worked for NBA Entertainment for three full seasons as a production assistant for NBA Action, All-Star Weekends, and NBA Playoffs. Todd graduated from Cornell University in 1999 with a B.S. in Communication. He has appeared as an extra on The Sopranos. His life revolves around HBO Sunday Nights, Yankees baseball, and Bruce Springsteen—his wife, Lauren, seems to enjoy two of those three. Todd has been a teaching assistant for TRF and sociology courses at SU since Spring 2003.
Van Assche, Toby
Toby Van Assche is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at Syracuse University. He is from Leuven, Belgium and received his B.A. in history and International Relations from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. During his junior year, he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Toby received two M.A.s from Syracuse University (International Relations and Political Science) and is currently writing his dissertation examining specific conditions conducive to groupthink, which causes bad decision making in groups.
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