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Graduate Teaching Consultants (GTC)
Graduate Teaching Consultants 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 GTC's are listed below along with a short bio. Click on their names to email them.
Chris Calvert-Minor
 Chris Calvert-Minor is a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at SU. He has served as a Teaching Fellow, Teaching Associate and an Assistant Director of the TA Program's Summer TA Orientation. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Pragmatist Epistemology and the Social Dimension.” This work develops a more robust pragmatist epistemology through the critical appropriation of various social epistemologies. He earned a M.S. degree in chemistry and a M.A. in theology before finding that his real love is philosophy. Of course, his #1 love is his partner, Deilee—who desperately wants him to finish school!
Shannon Dunn
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.
Heather Gibson
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.
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