DIRECTOR
Rebecca Sherrill More, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History, Brown University
Adjunct Professor, History, Division of Liberal Arts: HPSS, Rhode Island School of Design
Sheridan_Director@Brown.edu
(401) 863-1141

Dr. More holds an A.B. with honors in History from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brown University. Her research focuses on the social, economic and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern England, including gender studies. Dr. More’s involvement in professional development programs for faculty and concern for teaching to variations in learning dates from 1977. She has been associated with the Sheridan Center, Brown’s professional development center for faculty and graduate students, since 1987 and directed the Center’s operations since 1992. Under her direction the Sheridan Center has developed a comprehensive series of programs, services and publications to provide professional development support to the faculty and graduate students of Brown University. Over the years, these activities have expanded to include faculty and graduate students from the Rhode Island School of Design. These various activities represent a collegial exchange about pedagogy in higher education firmly rooted in the needs of the University’s teaching community. Her career has included work as Tour Director for the Providence Preservation Society, and owner/instructor of the Benefit Street Cookery School from 1972-1986. Her publications include editing the Sheridan Center's Teaching Exchange (1992-), The Rewards of Virtue (1998), Out to Lunch co-authored with Reva A. Stern (1985), the introduction to the 1989 edition of Horace Walpole’s essay On Modern Gardening (1780), numerous conference papers and book reviews. Dr. More has served on the boards of Providence Preservation Society, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (Brown University), the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the New England Faculty Development Consortium, the Concord Academy Alumni, and on Garden Club of America local and national committees (Scholarship and Civic Projects). She currently serves on the Board of the Weeks Medical Center (Lancaster NH) and the Strawbery Banke Museum (Portsmouth, NH) National Council.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR THE HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Laura E. Hess, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Sheridan_humss@Brown.edu
(401) 863-9193

Laura Hess received her B.A. Magna Cum Laude with Honors in East Asian Studies from Yale University in 1984, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Washington in 1989 and 1994 respectively. After earning her doctorate, she served for two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College. She came to Brown in 1996, when she joined the faculty of the Department of East Asian Studies. Her teaching interests include modern and classical Chinese, and she has published a number of journal articles, book chapters and book reviews on various sinological topics. In 2000, she became the Associate Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Sheridan Center. In addition to her work in faculty development and professional development for graduate students, she regularly serves as a first-year and sophomore advisor.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR THE LIFE & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Kathy M. Takayama, Ph. D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Bio - MCB
Sheridan_sci@Brown.edu
(401) 863-9192

Kathy Takayama holds a B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow from 1991 – 1993 in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. In 1994 Kathy joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where she continued her research in the regulation of bacterial RNA processing, and was appointed to the faculty as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. In addition to her work on RNA regulation, Kathy has engaged in cross-disciplinary research on the impact of visualizations on learning in the sciences and has published several papers and a book chapter on this work. She has been awarded the UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the Australian College of Educators New South Wales Quality Teaching Award, and the Australian Society for Microbiology David White Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2003, Kathy was selected as the first Carnegie Scholar from Australasia. She is a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and served as ISSOTL’s first Regional VP for Australasia, and Chair of the 4th ISSOTL Conference in Sydney. In addition to her work in the scholarship of teaching and learning, Kathy has been extensively involved in outreach projects for elementary schools and museums, and has mentored underprivileged children in the sciences.

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FACULTY FELLOW FOR THE HUMANITIES
Jeri DeBrohun
Associate Professor, Classics
Jeri_Debrohun@Brown.edu

Jeri DeBrohun's primary research interests are Hellenistic and Latin poetry, with special emphasis on Republican and Augustan poetry at Rome. Her first book, Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (The University of Michigan Press, 2003) was a study of Propertius Book 4. Her articles include "Redressing Elegy's Puella: Propertius IV and the Rhetoric of Fashion," Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994) 41-63; "Ariadne and the whirlwind of fate: figures of confusion in Catullus 64.149-57," Classical Philology 94 (1999) 419-30; and "Centaurs in love: Cyllarus and Hylonome in Ovid Metamorphoses 12.393-428," American Journal of Philology 125 (2004) 417-52. Jeri also has an interest in Cultural Studies, and she is currently writing a book on "Greco-Roman Dress as an Expressive Medium." Jeri regularly teaches undergraduate courses in Latin Love Elegy, Latin Lyric, plus (in translation) Greek Tragedy and Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places. Graduate seminars recently taught by her include Roman Satire, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid's Exile Poetry, and Lucretius. Jeri has been a CAP adviser each year since she arrived at Brown. In addition, she has been the Graduate Adviser and Director of Graduate Studies for Classics since 1997.

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FACULTY FELLOW FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
Gary Wessel
Professor, Bio-MCB
Gary_Wessel@Brown.edu
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Click here for his lab's website

The research in Gary Wessel's lab focuses on the molecular mechanisms of fertilization and on the regulation of egg development. The lab is located in Frank Hall and consists of three postdoctoral fellows, two graduate students, one undergraduate, and Gary who remains an active bench worker. Support for this research work currently comes from the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. As part of his service to the profession, Gary serves as an editor for Developmental Biology and is on the editorial board of four other journals in his field. Gary has taught several courses in his 15 years at Brown, including introductory courses in embryology (Bio 32) and Cell and Molecular Biology (Bio 50), an advanced course in developmental biology (Bio 131), and graduate level seminar courses (Bio 232, and Bio 293). He is formerly Director of the Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, and has served on 52 Ph.D. thesis committees (9 from his lab) and 33 undergraduate honors thesis committees (13 from his lab). He earned his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He has two young daughters who have each attended Brown's preschool programs.

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FACULTY FELLOW FOR THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Jan Tullis
Professor, Geological Sciences
Jan_Tullis@Brown.edu
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Jan Tullis came to Brown in 1970, after an A.B. at Carleton College and Ph.D. at UCLA; she finds that Brown combines the best of both - the resources of a major research university but the valuing of teaching and the sense of community of a liberal arts college. Her research, funded primarily by NSF, involves high temperature and pressure laboratory experiments on the grain-scale mechanisms by which rocks are able to 'flow' in the solid state at depths of ~10-50 km in the crust. She particularly enjoys teaching undergraduate courses; for many years she co-taught the physical geology course aimed at liberal arts students, and more recently has been co-teaching the course aimed at science students; she also teaches the concentrators’ course in Structural Geology. She enjoys freshman CAP advising, sophomore advising, and is the head geo concentration advisor. Recently she was honored to be appointed as a Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence. She has been a geo faculty liaison to the Sheridan Center for many years and has run her department's program for orienting and training new TAs. Over the years she has learned a great deal about teaching from her students, from her undergrad and grad TAs, from the geo faculty with whom she has shared courses, and certainly from the Sheridan Center.

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FACULTY FELLOW FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Kerry Smith
Associate Professor, History & East Asian Studies
Kerry_Smith@Brown.edu
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Kerry Smith's research focuses on the history of modern Japan; A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression and Rural Revitalization (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001) dealt with the impact of the social and economic crises of the 1930s on the countryside and rural families. His next book-length project explores the social and cultural histories of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In addition to teaching courses on modern Japan, Professor Smith regularly offers a class on Japan's transformation during the Second World War, upper-level seminars on colonialism and memory in East Asia, and a graduate seminar on Empire and Culture. Smith has been at Brown since 1997.