Christine Bell
cbell@northwestern.edu
Christine Bell is a College Adviser, Lecturer in
the
Department of Art History, and Associate Master of the Cultural and
Jaime Dominguez
j-dominguez@northwestern.edu
Jaime Dominguez is College Adviser and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. A native of California, he received his BA from the University of California at San Diego and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007. His research interests include race and ethnicity, urban and Latino and minority politics. Professor Dominguez has taught at the University of Chicago, UIC, and DePaul University. In 2003 and 2004, he taught at Northwestern in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies. He is one of the principal architect’s of the Chicago Democracy Project (CDP), a thirty-year (1975-2005) online political database that provides citizens, community groups, and religious organizations with information on campaign finance, electoral outcomes, government contracts, minority appointments and levels of public employment for the City of Chicago. In addition, the CDP also provides links to demographic, economic, and other demographic information of interest to the public. Professor Dominguez is currently working on a second grant to expand the CDP to twenty five major cities as well as a pilot project that examines the state of Latino politics in Chicago. Of particular interest is how Latino heterogeneity and population growth is redefining traditional political and race relations between blacks and whites. He is author of “Illinois Latinos and the 2004 Elections: The Waiting Game Continues,” in de la Garza and DeSipio’s Latinos and the 2004 Elections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Sheila Donohue
spdonohue@northwestern.edu
Sheila P. Donohue, Senior Lecturer in English and College Adviser, joined the Northwestern University faculty in 1998. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was the Randall Jarrell Fellow and served as poetry editor and production manager for The Greensboro Review. She has worked in the educational publishing field, and before coming to Northwestern was a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and several nominations for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in numerous national literary magazines, including Northwestern's own TriQuarterly. She teaches poetry and fiction writing in the undergraduate English Major in Writing Program and in the MA and MFA programs in Creative Writing. She has been a faculty fellow in the Women's Residential College since 2003, and has traveled to 16 European Union countries, 3 former Eastern Bloc nations, 2 Asian countries, and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Angela E. Grant
a-grant@northwestern.edu
Angela Grant is a Weinberg College Adviser and Lecturer in the
Department of Mathematics. She received a B.S. from Florida
A&M University, followed by a M.A. from the University of Michigan
and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland at College
Park. She joined the Northwestern faculty as a Boas Assistant Professor
in 2005, later becoming a College Adviser in 2008. Her research
interests include chaotic dynamical systems and stochastic differential
equations. She enjoys sharing her excitement about mathematics to
students of all ages, watching football (unfortunately as a loyal
Cincinnati Bengals fan) and playing board games. Scrabble anyone?
Michael J. Kramer
mjk@northwestern.edu
Michael J. Kramer joined the Office of College
Academic
Advisers in 2007. In addition to being an academic adviser, he is a
lecturer in
History and American Studies, specializing in twentieth-century
Hilarie Lieb
hilarie@northwestern.edu
Hilarie Lieb is a Weinberg College Adviser and
Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Economics. She received her PhD from the
Department of Economics at
James O'Laughlin
j-olaughlin@northwestern.edu
James O'Laughlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program and a WCAS College Adviser. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Saint Louis University, and an M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and did additional graduate work in English at Northwestern. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies in 1999-2000, and in 2005 he was named to the ASG Faculty Honor Roll. He has taught a wide range of writing and literature courses, including freshman seminars on American Indian Literature and on Literature and Environments, as well as Reading and Writing Fiction, Literary Editing, Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction, Modes of Writing, and Intermediate Composition. He was a fiction editor at StoryQuarterly Magazine from 1998 until 2007 (and co-editor in 2004), and has written reviews of fiction, biography, and philosophy for Booklist. He is working on a book about writing.
Laura Panko
l-panko@northwestern.edu
Laura Panko is a Weinberg College Adviser and
Lecturer in
Biology. Courses she has taught at
Northwestern include freshman seminars, Topics in Evolutionary Biology,
and
Evolutionary Processes. She earned her
bachelor's
degree in Biology from
Jeanne Ravid
j-ravid@northwestern.edu
Jeanne Ravid is a Senior Lecturer in the Classics Department where she teaches and currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She teaches advising-linked freshman seminars and an independent study course in medical terminology for premedical students. Jeanne serves as Senior College Adviser in the WCAS advising office twelve hours each week as prelaw adviser and Wingspread Fellowships coordinator with the Office of Fellowships. As Chair of the Committee on Language Proficiency of the WCAS Council on Language Instruction, she coordinates proficiency testing of students in languages not taught at Northwestern and works with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities on petitions for substitution of the Weinberg College foreign language proficiency requirement due to a learning disability specifically related to foreign language acquisition.
Jeff Rice
j-rice2@northwestern.edu
Jeff Rice is a Weinberg College Adviser and Lecturer in History. He began his career at Northwestern in 1968 as an entering freshman and has been associated with the University in one way or another since then. After graduation he went on to begin graduate work at the University of Edinburgh; receiving a Masters Degree in African Studies after completing a dissertation entitled "Wealth Power and Corruption: A Study of Asante Political Culture". From there he returned to the History Department at Northwestern specializing in West African History. After a few years pursuing African History he left academia and became a full time bookseller at Great Expectations Bookstore (in Evanston) where he remained until its closure in 2001; eventually becoming its owner. During this time he continued to teach occasional courses at Northwestern in American History as well as on the culture of publishing and bookselling.
He returned to Northwestern full time in 2001 teaching in the History Department and later becoming a Weinberg Adviser. His courses have included West African History, History of the 60's in the U.S., Marx & Weber, and a popular freshman seminar called "Anarchists, Punks, Dada, & Beats". His current research project is a comparative study of the Port Huron Statement and Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". In addition to his teaching and advising he is the Master of the Humanities/Chapin Residential College.
He lives with his wife Denise who is an artist and his sons (Tim, 16 & Luke, 14), his two dogs, iguana, gecko, and rabbit. Whenever free times appears he enjoys live music, films, and reading detective novels.
Andrew Rivers
ajrivers@northwestern.edu
Andrew Rivers is a Weinberg College Adviser and a Lecturer in
Physics and Astronomy. He received his B.S. in Physics from the
University of Portland in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the
University of New Mexico in 2000. Andrew's Ph.D. research included a
large scale radio astronomy survey of the so-called "Zone of
Avoidance": a large region of the sky containing few visible external
galaxies due to obscuration by dust near the disk of our own Milky Way
Galaxy. Looking for hidden galaxies using long wavelength radio waves
which pass through the dust unobscured, Andrew discovered approximately
20 previously unknown nearby galaxies. Andrew joined the Northwestern
University Physics department in 1999 and has since taught a variety of
courses in physics and astronomy including the introductory physics
sequence, Modern Cosmology and Ideas of Physics. In his free time,
Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife Carolyn and his Pekinese
puppy "Boo". Leisure activities include tinkering with Linux, attending
obscure art films and reading nonfiction from diverse fields.
Bill Savage
b-savage@northwestern.edu
Besides his work as a College Adviser, Bill Savage
is a
Senior Lecturer in the Department of English. He co-edited Nelson
Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm, 50th
Anniversary Critical Edition (with Daniel Simon, Seven Stories Press,
1999) as
well as Algren's Chicago City on the Make,
50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated (with David Schmittgens,
Mark Sheldon
sheldon@northwestern.edu
Mark Sheldon, assistant dean in the Weinberg College of Arts and
Sciences, is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Philosophy and in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Program, Feinberg
School of Medicine. He received his PhD from Brandeis University, where
he was awarded a Sachar Fellowship to study at Oxford University. He
has served as Adjunct Senior Scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and Senior Policy Analyst
at the American Medical Association. Formerly Professor of Philosophy
and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Indiana University (Northwest
campus) and Indiana University School of Medicine, he currently serves
as adjunct faculty and ethicist at Rush University Medical Center in
Chicago. Sheldon has published and presented talks on a variety of
issues including informed consent, allocation of resources,
confidentiality, the forced transfusion of children of Jehovah's
Witnesses, children as organ donors, disclosure, and the use of Nazi
research. He has contributed book chapters and published in a variety
of journals including The Journal of the American Medical Association,
The Hastings Center Report, The Philosophical Forum, The Journal of
Value Inquiry, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has served
as guest editor of two journals - Theoretical Ethics and Bioethics and
The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He has served a
three-year term as a member of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
of the American Philosophical Association, and is currently co-editor
of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. He also served as a
member of the Task Force on Genetics for the Illinois Humanities
Council. The focus of his research is the point at which the interests
of children, the prerogatives of parents, and the obligations of the
state often come into conflict in relation to medical decisions for
children. Recently, he was appointed to the Board of Ethics for
the City of Evanston.
Glenn Sucich
g-sucich@northwestern.edu
Glenn Sucich is a
Weinberg College Adviser and Lecturer in English. He earned his
B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and his
Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. Since joining the
faculty of Northwestern's English Department in 2005, he has taught
classes on Milton, Shakespearean tragedy, the history of hell, the
genre of epic, and the relationship among magic, science, and religion
during the Early Modern period in Europe. In 2009, he received
the WCAS Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award and has twice been
selected to the Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
His research focuses on the intersection of Early Modern religion and
natural philosophy, particularly in the work of John Milton and his
contemporaries. He has published articles on Milton, the poet
Samuel Butler, and the Early Modern physician and natural philosopher
William Harvey. When he's not working with students at
Northwestern, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons in
and around their home in Chicago.
Liz Fekete Trubey
eft@northwestern.edu
Liz Fekete Trubey is a College Adviser and Senior
Lecturer
in English. She received her BA from the
