Faculty Mentoring Panel
2021-2022
Faculty Mentoring Panel consist of tenured faculty members from various departments and varied years of experiences at Gustavus. All new faculty are welcome and encourage to reach out to any of these faculty members for discussion on any of the topics that the panel members have listed below. Kendall center is happy to support these discussions through lunches or coffees at the Marketplace or buffet. New faculty can email Cathy Blaukat for vouchers.
- Department: Philosophy
- Area of Research: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Logic
- Years teaching at GAC: 7
- Email: jbrown8@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Department: Chemistry
- Area of Research: Organic Synthesis and Chemical Biology
- Years teaching at GAC: 18
- Email: sbur@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Department: English
- Area of Research: Film & American Literature
- Years teaching at GAC: 11
- Email: scobb@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to observe new faculty teaching and/or observe new faculty's teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Department: Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Area of Research: Biomolecular science - Translation and stability of messenger RNA
- Years teaching at GAC: 17
- Email: dahlseid@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Also happy to discuss vocational reflection in teaching, mentoring and advising
- Department: Education
- Area of Research: Teacher Education, Mentoring, and Preparation (in traditional and nontraditional spaces); Dis/Ability Studies in Education; Inclusion and other Equity-based, Multicultural Education Practices
- Years teaching at GAC: 6
- Email: ldembou@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Also happy to answer any questions concerning the tenure process (from hire to Third Year Review to Tenure Review) as I'm in the newest cohort of GAC faculty to have earned tenure (in Spring, 2020), so these experiences are fresh. I have led Study Away and happy to discuss that whole process from proposal to returning with everyone intact! I also am a "historically underrepresented" faculty member (in a few different areas), despite how I may appear on the outside. After six years here, still feel like I'm only scratching the surface in terms of understanding GAC culture, so explorations of topics in that realm would be particularly interesting and energizing for me if you're so inclined! Welcome, welcome to you!
- Department: History, Scandinavian Studies, Russian and Eastern European Studies
- Area of Research: History, Scandinavia, Russia, minorities
- Years teaching at GAC: 10
- Email: kranking@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Happy to also discuss being a LGBT faculty
- Department: Political Scienece/Gender Women and Sexuality Studies
- Area of Research: Political Theory, broadly construed(!)
- Years teaching at GAC: 19
- Email: jlocke@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Also happy to discuss dealing with misogyny and mansplaining
- Department: Modern Languages, Literature, and Cultures; LALACS
- Area of Research:Twentieth Century Latin American Literature; Queer and Gender Studies
- Years teaching at GAC: 8
- Email: cmejia@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Department: Scandinavian Studies
- Area of Research: Contemporary Scandinavian Literature; Literatures of Place; the Arctic
- Years teaching at GAC: 9
- Email: kmoody@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Also happy to discuss anything the mentee may find helpful
- Department: Education
- Area of Research: Middle level education, co-teaching, effective instructional strategies, achievement inequities
- Years teaching at GAC: 10
- Email: avizenor@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to meet up to discuss Gustavus curriculum and/or advising
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance
- Also happy to discuss how to capitalize on a visiting position
Department: Communication Studies Department- Area of Research: Argumentation and Debate
- Years teaching at GAC: 29
- Email: pvoight@gustavus.edu
- Willing to meet up to discuss teaching and/or scholarship
- Willing to have new faculty observe classroom teaching and/or observe new faculty's classroom teaching
- Willing to discuss the review and evaluation process
- Willing to discuss service, department citizenship, and/or faculty governance
- Willing to discuss Life/Work balance