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Graduate Assistants
Graduate Assistants are experienced TAs who provide a host of services upon request, including visiting classrooms and conducting follow-up consultations, arranging for videotaping of TAs' classes, planning professional development seminars and workshops and assisting with the program development of the TA Orientation programs. They are available to discuss any teaching issues that students may encounter in the classroom or to give direction in locating teaching resources.
The current GA's are listed below along with a short bio. Click on their names to email them.
Amy Roache-Fedchenko
Amy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and is currently writing her dissertation on the labor dynamics of the 18th century blacksmith within the archaeological context of European frontier expansion and the fur trade in North America. She has taught as a teaching assistant and Instructor of Anthropology at Syracuse University and held an adjunct position at SUNY-Cortland with the department of Sociology/Anthropology/Criminology. She has also pursued her interests in teaching through her activities as a Teaching Fellow and Teaching Associate and was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2009. When she’s not taking herself too seriously, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son exploring the outdoors.
Shawn Krause-Loner
 Shawn Krause-Loner is a PhD 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 teaching since his arrival in 2004 and was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2006. In spring 2007 he taught his FPP course, entitled "Cults and Covens: Theory and Practice of New Religious Movements." Shawn's dissertation, which is still in the planning phase, will focus 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 friends.
Holly White
Holly White is a PhD student the Department of Religion. She has served as a Teaching Fellow and a Teaching Associate, and is currently researching her dissertation on postmodernism and utopia. She was also a winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2008 and is co-editor of the Graduate School Press collection,Pedagogy, not Policing: Positive Approaches to Academic Integrity at the University (2009). Her research areas include feminist theories, aesthetics, and Utopian literature. She earned a MA in Theology and a BA in English. Before coming to SU, Holly toured with an improvisational arts troupe. She plays traditional Irish fiddle and regards herself as "hopelessly Midwestern."
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