Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Sinead Brennan-McMahon
Ph.D. Student in Classics, admitted Autumn 2019
DBC Monitor, Hume CenterBioSinead is an ABD PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and is expecting to complete her dissertation in 2024. Her research investigates ancient Roman sexual culture and where it shows up in the landscape. It focuses on displays of sexuality that do not match up to any social or political identities, including statues of Priapus, emperors portrayed as sexual aggressors and agricultural language adopted as sexual slang.
Sinead comes from Auckland, New Zealand, where she received her M.A. with First Class Honours. Her M.A. thesis examined the reception of Martial’s sexually obscene homosexual epigrams in school texts and commentaries. Using a comprehensive statistical analysis, she argued that Victorian editors of Martial’s Epigrams expurgated the text to remove references to material they found offensive and to curate a culturally appropriate view of the ancient world for their schoolboy readers.
Sinead is also interested in the Digital Humanities, Data Science and programming. As a CESTA DH Graduate Fellow, she is developing an ngram viewer tool for the Latin literary canon. -
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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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 with Certification in Black Church Studies from Emory University, and a PhD in English and Education from the University of Michigan. Her current scholarship focuses on womanist ethics, racial justice, and writing center administration. At Stanford, she also serves as a Chaplain Affiliate with the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life. Beyond Stanford, she leads THRIVE Women's Ministry at University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto. Dr. Jordan is a proud member of the San Francisco-Peninsula Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the San Jose Chapter of the Links, Incorporated.
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Courtney MacPhee
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2020
Graduate Mentor, Hume CenterCurrent Role at StanfordCo-coordinator of the Religion, Politics, and Culture Workshop, sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center
Communications Coordinator of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University
Graduate Mentor for Undergraduate Honors Thesis Writers -
Lisa Moore Ramee
Assistant Director, Student Services PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Officer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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Alexa Samaniego
Ph.D. Student in Business Administration, admitted Autumn 2022
Reader/Grader - Graduate, Graduate School of Business - Organizational Behavior
Grad OCT, Hume CenterBioAlexa is a third-year PhD student in Organizational Behavior (Micro) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Alexa's research is inspired by her background in theatre and the performing arts. She considers how speakers and audiences experience repeated performances (e.g., entrepreneurs giving the same pitch, or trainers giving the same seminar), and why certain speakers come across as more authentic than others. Her research informs the work she does as a presentation coach in the Stanford Oral Communication program and TEDxStanford.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Alexa worked as a research associate at Achievers Workforce Institute and Columbia Business School. She received her BS in Business Psychology from UC San Diego, and her MS in Applied Psychology from San Diego State University. -
Jonah Willihnganz
The Stanford Storytelling Project Manager, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
BioJonah Willihnganz is the Director of the Stanford Storytelling Project, an arts program that explores how story craft and practices can be used to create personal and social change. He is also the co-founder of the LifeWorks Program for Integrative Learning in the School of Medicine, a program that helps students explore orientations and practices from the arts, humanities, psychology, and contemplative traditions that can help them meet the challenges they face.
His research focuses on how narrative practices can help deepen natural human capacities such as presence, courage, and empathy, and he has published fiction, essays, and articles on American literature. He teaches courses in creative writing, American literature, media studies, and critical theory, and created the first college courses on storytelling in audio media. A long-time contemplative and student of Aikido, he incorporates their practices of into many of his courses, and he helps faculty integrate both narrative and contemplative practices into their courses.
He received a bachelor's degree in political economy from Georgetown University, an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University, and a PhD in English from Brown. He belongs to the communities of the San Francisco Zen Center and Palo Alto Friends (Quakers), is a slow but avid swimmer, and is learning to fly fish.
