Faculty Mentors

Erica Britt

Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics

Department/Program: Linguistics

Field/Specialization: Antiracism, Critical discourse analysis, Critical pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality.

MMUF Mentee(s): M. Egberongbe

Christina E. Crawford

Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History

Department/Program: Art History

Field/Specialization: Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism–history, Theory and Design, Modern housing, Socialist space, and Economy/Politics and Societal expectations.

MMUF Mentee(s): Emilio Rosas Gutiérrez

Nick Fesette

Associate Professor of Theater

Department/Program: Theater

Field/Specialization: Acting and directing, Critical Prison Studies, Abolition, Performance studies, Modern and contemporary drama, Theatre and social justice, and Trauma theory.

MMUF Mentee(s): Makalee Cooper

Karen A. Hegtvedt

Professor and Department Chair of Sociology

Department/Program: Sociology

Field/Specialization: Social psychology and emotions, effects of legitimacy on perceptions of and responses to distribute injustice, and environmental identity and sustainability. 

MMUF Mentee(s): Courtney Fitzgerald

Linette Park

Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Department/Program: African American Studies

Field/Specialization: Critical Black theories and Black Studies, Carceral studies, Gender and sexuality studies, Psychoanalysis, Continental philosophy, Philosophy of law, Visual art and film, and the afterlife of slavery and lynching in North America.

MMUF Mentee(s): Amal Ali

Kristin Phillips

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Department/Program: Anthropology

Field/Specialization: Development anthropology, Political anthropology, Agrarian change, Knowledge and representation, Sub-Saharan Africa.

MMUF Mentee(s): Jaanaki Radhakrishnan

Gordon Ramsay

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Director of the Spoken Communication Laboratory, Marcus Autism Center

Department/Program: School of Medicine – Pediatrics

Field/Specialization: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Early vocal development in children (with a focus on infants and toddlers from birth to three years old) at risk for autism, and early detection and intervention.

MMUF Mentee(s): Deanna Sharpe

Yami Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of History

Department/Program: History

Field/Specialization: Twentieth-century US history, Latinx history, Labor and migration, US South.

Historias Latinas en relación a cuestiones de cultura, raza, origen étnico, trabajo, y migración.

MMUF Mentee(s): Taylor Colorado Merino, Sabrina Reyes

Calvin Warren

Associate Professor of African American Studies

Department/Program: African American Studies

Field/Specialization: Continental Philosophy (particularly post-Heideggerian and nihilistic philosophy), Lacanian psychoanalysis, queer theory, Black Philosophy, Afro-pessimism, and theology.

MMUF Mentee(s): Jonissy Kadima

Subha Xavier

Associate Professor of French

Department/Program: French

Field/Specialization: Migration and Diaspora Studies, Francophone African, Canadian and Caribbean literature and film, Postcolonial and Literary Theory.

MMUF Mentee(s): Leilani Nti