Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Laura Selznick
Undergraduate Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordUndergraduate Advising Director
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Parna Sengupta
Associate Vice Provost, Director of Stanford Introductory Studies, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioParna Sengupta is Associate Vice Provost and Senior Director of Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS), under the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE).SIS curricular programs include: CIvic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) first-year requirement; The ESF (Education as Self-fashioning) program for first-year students; SLE and ITALIC, residential program for first-year students; the Introductory Seminars program offers 230+ seminars for first- and second-year students each year; Sophomore College and Arts Intensive which offer intensive seminar courses each year for returning sophomores during the first three weeks of September.
Parna arrived at Stanford in 2008 from Carleton College, where she was an associate professor in South Asian history. Parna’s book, Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal (UC Press, 2011), reveals the centrality of missionary models of schooling on the development of modern education, an influence that resulted in the reinforcement of religion and religious identity in colonial India. Her most recent project is on the early twentieth century feminist thinker Rokeya Hossain. -
Natasha Sharp
Academic Policy Systems Administrator, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Policy Systems Administrator
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Emily Shewmaker
Assistant Director, Programs and Grants, VPO PGP Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Programs & Research
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Emily Rose Southerton
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2018
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume Center
Student Employee, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Other Tech - Graduate, Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)BioAs a learning scientist, Emily Southerton studies youth agency & social justice efforts and how they relate to educational writing technologies & curricula. She is a Teaching Affiliate with Stanford's Teacher Education Program (STEP) and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR). She has expertise in applying quantitative, qualitative, & participatory methodologies in community with research participants. She is advised by John Willinsky and Sarah Levine and is a member of the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis as well as a researcher with the Language to Literacy Lab and the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) within the GSE. She is a graduate student writing tutor at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, mentors at the GSE Makery, and TAs in Qualitative Methods, Technology for Learners, and Curriculum and Instruction in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program (STEP). Before coming to Stanford, she worked in the field of education for eight years in which she taught middle school Humanities and Computer Science and created the Poet Warriors Project, a digital publishing platform that amplifies the work of youth poets from low-income schools across the country: www.poetwarriorsproject.com.
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Almendra Louisa Staffa-Healey
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioALMENDRA STAFFA-HEALEY, is an Intercultural Trainer & International and Experiential Learning Educator. She teaches 'Integration into Spanish Society: Service Learning and Professional Opportunities' in the Bing Overseas Studies Program in Madrid. She was born in Granada, Spain to US American parents, and has lived extensively in both countries as a child and as an adult. Over the past twenty years she has worked in the field of international and intercultural education and business. Almendra’s professional focus is cross-cultural understanding through education and training. She co-authored En clase, en el trabajo, entre la gente, a book commissioned by the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Programme on perfecting foreign language, interpersonal and intercultural skills through internships abroad. Almendra is a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI ®), one of the most widely used tools for assessing and developing intercultural competence at the individual, group, and organizational levels. She is also a Senior Facilitator of the cross cultural and transitions methodology Personal Leadership, Making a World of Difference®. Almendra holds a Bachelor's degree from New York University in Art History, an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, an institution associated with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Madrid Stock Exchange, as well as an MA in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has served as the SIETAR Spain President. SIETAR is the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and international network of professionals dedicated to the intercultural field.
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Matthew D. Stephen
Overseas Studies - Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMatthew studied political science, history and classics at the University of Otago (2003-2006, B.A. (Hons), M.A., 2007-2008) before writing a PhD at the Free University Berlin (2009-2013) where he graduated summa cum laude. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and held Visiting Professorships at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg in 2018-2019 and 2021. His research focuses on international power shifts and international institutions, and has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, International Studies Review, and International Studies Quarterly. He is fascinated by Berlin, where he has lived since 2009.
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Melissa Stevenson
Lead Undergraduate Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordLead Undergraduate Advising Director
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Diana Suedbeck
New Student Programs Manager, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordNew Student Programs Manager
