Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Elaine Lai
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioElaine Lai is a Lecturer for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) who has spent over a decade of her life working and studying in Nepal, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, and China, where she made many lifelong friends.
Elaine is a scholar of Buddhism, trained in the languages of Tibetan, Chinese, and Sanskrit. She specializes in a tradition known as the Great Perfection in Tibet. Elaine’s recent research explores the relationship between Buddhist literature and time, specifically, how form and content interplay to cultivate more compassionate temporal relationalities. Elaine is committed to making the study of Buddhism accessible to a wider audience through technology and the arts. As a part of her dissertation, she created an intertextual heatmap to trace the citational history of a scripture throughout an important corpus of Great Perfection literature. Elaine also created a virtual reality (VR) experience to present Great Perfection history in a novel way.
At Stanford, Elaine has co-taught different courses in Religious Studies and guest lectured in Asian American Studies. In 2022, Elaine is proud to have created and taught the course “Queering Buddhism: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberatory Praxis.” This course sought to investigate the possibilities and constraints to “queering” or transforming any institution, and how the fields of queer studies and feminist studies might constructively and ethically be in conversation with Buddhist theories of liberation. In her pedagogy, Elaine emphasizes the importance of reciprocity, respect, and co-creation. Elaine is a firm believer that the process of how we engage in dialogue is as important, if not more important, than what the ultimate outcome of our conversations might be.
In Elaine’s free time, she writes screenplays (film and TV), spanning the genres of comedy, sci-fi, animation, historical drama, and more. -
Lina Le
Assistant Director, SIS Academic Affairs, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioLina is the Assistant Director, Academic Affairs for Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS), part of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE). She manages hiring and payments for instructors and faculty teaching in SIS programs. Prior to SIS, Lina was with the Diversity & Access Office supporting university-wide employee groups and providing students, staff, faculty and visitors disability-related accommodations. Her first role at Stanford was with the Graduate School of Business, helping MBA and MSx students acclimate to living on campus. Lina has a Bachelor's in Business Administration from San Jose State University and a Master's in Global Entrepreneurial Management from the University of San Francisco.
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Frank Akeem Marsh
Finance and Administrative Coordinator, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
Current Role at StanfordFinance and Administrative Coordinator for Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS)
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Richard McGrail
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEthnographic research describes the daily lives of children in California's foster care system who live in therapeutic residential group homes. Research questions how relationships of trust and attachement are formed between children and their adult caregivers, as well as among the children themselves.
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Dayo Mitchell
Senior Associate Director of Sophomore College and Special Assistant to the , Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
Current Role at StanfordSenior Associate Director Sophomore College and Special Assistant to the VP--Stanford Introductory Studies
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Kelvin Niu
Learning Experience And Technology Support (Lets), Freshman and Sophomore Programs (FSP)
Undergraduate, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Stanford Stdnt Employee-Summer, Pathology Sponsored Projects
Student Scenic Technician, Theater and Performance StudiesBioLighting Design Portfolio: https://sites.google.com/view/kelvin-niu/home
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Michelle Katherine Oing
Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioMichelle Oing is a scholar of medieval and early modern European art, with a focus on sculpture, pilgrimage, and puppetry (PhD, Yale University). Recent and forthcoming scholarly articles examine sacred puppets, carnival performances, and theatrical representations of miraculous images in the late medieval period. She has held teaching positions in art history at Yale University, Pomona College, and Stanford University.
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Sarah Pittock
Associate Director for COLLEGE, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioSarah Peterson Pittock PhD recently joined Stanford Introductory Studies as the Associate Director for COLLEGE to support teaching excellence in the first year requirement. Previously, she taught in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric developing courses that intersect writing with ethics, education, and medicine. From 2013-2015, she served as Associate Director of the Hume Center, supporting a writing-enriched curriculum through tutor education, writing workshops, graduate writing and speaking programming, and writing pedagogy consultations. From 2017-2022, she also directed Bing Honors College, a September program that accelerates rising seniors' progress on their honors research and writing. Her work has been published in Women's Writing, the WAC Journal, Writing Center Journal, and edited collections.
