Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Mikayla Amber Brier-Mills
Master of the Science of Law Student, Law
Hume Graduate Office Assistant, Hume CenterBioMikayla Brier-Mills is an Australian lawyer and has read for the BCL and MPhil at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on treaty interpretation under international humanitarian and human rights law. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Bond University, Exchange of Laws at Leiden University; a GDLP from Australian National University. Currently, she is reading for her JSM through the Program in International Legal Studies at Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Friedman. Her focus is on how the social and legal context of Tunisia influences its ratification and implementation of the Istanbul Convention on the Elimination of Violence Against Women. While at Oxford, she was Research Assistant at the Blavatnik School of Government for the International Peace and Security Programme, and at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Mikayla is also Editorial Assistant for the Global Community Yearbook on International Law and Jurisprudence (OUP). Prior to coming to Oxford, she worked as Foreign Law Clerk for Justice Salim Joubran at the Supreme Court of Israel, and Founded the Bond University Law Wellness Association. Her main areas of focus are jurisprudence (specifically, notions of dignity and obligation), and international law (relating to the evolution of the humane treatment obligation). As Correspondent for Oxford Human Rights Hub, Mikayla writes, and solicits experts to write, about gender-based violence issues occurring mostly in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Marvin Diogenes
Associate VP, Director of PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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Melissa A. Hosek
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2015
Stanford Student Employee, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Hume DBC Monitor, Hume CenterBioMelissa A. Hosek is a PhD candidate specializing in modern Chinese literature with interests in environmental humanities, science, technology and society (STS), and digital humanities. Her dissertation examines how technological progress transforms ideas regarding nature and environmentalism in modern Chinese literature. Working primarily with science fiction narratives, she analyzes how writers and filmmakers diagnose the changing human-nature relationship amidst science-driven development since the 1970s. Her research constructs an ecocritical literary history of contemporary Chinese science fiction and maps the transformation of humanistic reactions to the environmental crisis. In addition to her dissertation research, she is also interested in Chinese language teaching and learning in higher education, and is certified in Language Program Management and ACTFL OPI testing. In the field of digital humanities, she has developed several projects and received the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. Her other interests include: materialism, science fiction studies, critical theory, and nationalism.
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Zandra L. Jordan
Director, Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
BioRev. Dr. Zandra L. Jordan is Director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. A trained rhetorician and ordained Baptist minister, she holds a B.A. in English from Spelman College, a M.A.T in English from Brown University, a MDiv from Emory University's Candler School of Theology, and a PhD in English and Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the Stanford community, Zandra was the founding director of the Center for Academic Literacy at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, and also served as Minister of Adult Christian Education at Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. She now leads THRIVE Women's Ministry at University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto and serves on the teaching team. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and Second Vice President of the San Francisco-Peninsula Alumnae Chapter.
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Laura Lyman
Ph.D. Student in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2015
Hume Center Dissertation Boot Camp Monitor, Hume CenterBioHello! I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME). I am proud to be advised by Professor Gianluca Iaccarino.
Some of my research interests include stochastic Galerkin methods, uncertainty quantification, polynomial chaos, applied partial differential equations, and Monte Carlo methods — though often, the academic boundaries and specific titles will overlap. Prior to graduate school, I attended Reed College as a mathematics major and worked as a software developer in Portland, OR. In 2018, I was a recipient of the Stanford Centennial Teaching Award. I am also a Stanford EDGE Fellow and was awarded the Thomas V. Jones Fellowship Fund.
If you have questions about more current work, the best route is to contact me via email (lymanla@stanford.edu) directly. Thanks! -
Lisa Moore Ramee
Student Services Officer, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Officer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
