Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Esiteli Hafoka
COLLEGE Lecturer
Bio'Esiteli Hafoka received her PhD and MA in Religious Studies from Stanford University, and her BA in Religious Studies and Ancient History from UC Riverside. Her research introduces a novel theoretical approach, Angafakafonua as Tongan epistemology, to understand Tongan collective identity in America. Her dissertation identifies religious threads connecting 19th c. Methodist Christianity, Mormonism, Tongan Crip Gang members in Utah, and sacred education spaces to reveal the ways Tongans navigate their racial identity in America through a religious epistemology. She has co-authored a chapter with Finau Sina Tovo titled, "Mana as Sacred Space: A Talanoa of Tongan American College Students in a Pacific Studies Learning Community Classroom" in Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, NYU Press 2023.
'Esiteli is the proud daughter of Taniela and Latufuipeka (Hala'ufia) Hafoka, wife of Va'inga Uhamaka, and mother of Sinakilea and Latufuipeka. -
Mahel Hamroun
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioMahel Hamroun (she/her) is a historian of the European Middle Ages and a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE). As a historian, she works at the intersection of legal history, religious studies, and history of emotions, with a particular interest in comparative cultures of guilt. She has written and taught on a wide range of topics, including law and legal community in the medieval North, histories of sin and penance, and European understandings of salvation and damnation with respect to various perceived 'others'. She recently completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research explored the role of penance in the secular laws of medieval Iceland and Norway. Future projects, including her forthcoming first book, will continue to focus on themes of culpability and legal and religious entanglement, both within and beyond the borders of Europe.
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Grace Huckins
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioGrace Huckins is a lecturer with the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program. They earned their PhD in neuroscience from Stanford, where they also completed a PhD minor in philosophy. Their research centers on explanation in neuroscience: they explore approaches for developing brain-based explanation of human experiences and behaviors, and they simultaneously investigate whether or not those explanations are likely to be of value to the general public. Alongside their research and teaching, they also write about neuroscience, health, and artificial intelligence for publications like WIRED, Slate, and MIT Technology Review.
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Michaela Hulstyn
SLE Associate Director
BioMichaela Hulstyn is the Associate Director of Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a first-year residential education program at Stanford University.
She is the author of Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2022.) Her research interests center on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, phenomenology of the self and intersubjectivity, cognitive approaches to transcultural literature, and literature as ethical philosophy. Her work has appeared in MLN, Philosophy and Literature, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, among other places.
Michaela previously held academic appointments at Florida State University and Reed College. -
R. Alexander (Sandy) Hunter
COLLEGE Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a historical archaeologist and environmental anthropologist. I study the political ecology of colonial encounters, with a particular focus on the long-term ecological legacies of colonial land management. My research and teaching interests include the anthropology of climate change, agrarian studies, contemporary and industrial archaeology, GIS applications in archaeology, heritage management, and extractivism. I have research projects based in Cusco, Peru and in Ontario, Canada.
