Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Aaron Mascarenhas
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2023
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume CenterBioI currently practice as a doctor and a medical anthropologist. I completed my MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India. My experience as a medical practitioner strengthened my conviction that there was much that contemporary medical pedagogy did not teach its students about health, care, and healing. I spent the next few years as a student of the humanities. I obtained a Master's in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University, Sonipat, India, where I studied the relationship between the linguistic and ethical dimensions of medical eponyms named after perpetrators of the Holocaust. At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, I completed an MA in Philosophy. My final project at Simon Fraser developed a framework to recognise oppression experienced by patients as they attempted to partake in knowledge production during their encounter with biomedical systems.
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Rev. Daiko Matsuyama
Overseas Studies - Kyoto, Bing Overseas Studies
BioBorn in 1978 in Kyoto, Mr. Matsuyama obtained his Master’s degree in Agriculture and Life Sciences from the University of Tokyo.
After three and half years of training at Heirin-ji Temple, Niiza, he became the deputy priest of Taizoin Temple in 2007.
Matsuyama is acclaimed for organizing intercultural activities such as Zen experience tours for foreign visitors and talks at embassies in Japan and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
In May 2009, he was elected as a Japan Tourism Agency’s Ambassador for its “Visit Japan” Campaign.
He has been a member of Kyoto’s Ambassadors for Tourism since 2011, and was listed as one of “The Top 100 People of the New Generation 2016” in Nikkei Business.
And he was appointed as a fellow of US-Japan Leadership Program from 2016.
In 2018, he was invited to Israel as the delegate of Young Leaders Program.
And he also became a visiting lecturer at Stanford Univ.
He received The Award of Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Shigemitsu Award from Japan society in Boston in 2019.
He is serving as an appointed member of the Kyoto City Board of Education and an Outside Director of V-cube, a tech startup, since 2021.
As a young representative of the Zen Sect in Japan, Matsuyama has interacted with many religious leaders, such as having an audience with the Roman Catholic Pope and conversing with the 14th Dalai Lama.
He also participated in the Davos World Economic Forum in 2014, and continues to work actively beyond national and religious borders.
He is the author of the book,
Forget What’s Important First: 30 Zen Teachings for the Wavering Soul (Sekai Bunka Publishing, 2014)
Strolling around Zen Gardens in Kyoto (PHP Publishing, 2016)
Introduction of ZEN for workers (Kodansya Publishing, 2016). -
Harry R. McCarthy
Overseas Studies, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMy research centres on early modern acting and performances by children in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
I grew up just outside Oxford, where I attended local comprehensive schools before coming to Exeter in 2011. Over the course of my BA in English and French, I was repeatedly drawn to questions concerning early modern theatrical culture and present-day performances of early modern drama, which culminated in a final-year dissertation on the self-fashioning and reputation of the actor-playwright Nathan Field. Having graduated with a First and Dean's and College Commendations, I left Exeter in 2015 to pursue an M.St. in English (1550-1700) at the University of Oxford, where I worked on theatrical documents in the plays of Christopher Marlowe, the publication and paratexts of Jacobean play quartos, ekphrasis in the narrative poetry of Spenser and Shakespeare, and, finally, a dissertation on early modern concepts of 'youth' and its articulation in the repertory of the Children of the Queen's Revels, 1609-1613. I returned to Exeter in 2016 after being awarded a South, West, and Wales DTP PhD scholarship which allows me to continue to pursue my interests in the training, rehearsal, performance, and afterlives of early modern boy actors.
Throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I have worked as Director of the Oxford Summer Academy, a Writing Advisor with Exeter's Undergraduate Writing Centre, and have privately taught English, French, and Drama to GCSE, IB, and A Level students. At Exeter, I have taught classes in Shakespeare and Performance (Stage and Screen), and Early Modern Literature. With Paul Prescott (Warwick), I was the Performance Reviews Editor and Editorial Assistant for Shakespeare Bulletin until December 2017. -
Richard McGrail
COLLEGE Lecturer
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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Sangeeta Mediratta
PWR Lecturer
BioSangeeta Mediratta teaches classes on rhetoric and writing, literature and film. Her PWR classes currently focus on maps, borders, networks, objects, and objectification. She loves learning about and helping her students develop their research interests and projects and takes great joy in fostering strong class communities centered around writing and research.
She completed her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in English Literature. Her dissertation :Bazaars, Cannibals, and Sepoys: Sensationalism and Transnational Cultures of Empire" studied at the ways texts, objects, and spectacles in the U.S. and Britain drew upon imperial stories and objects to critique contemporary social formations. She has also written on world cinema, popular culture, disability studies, as well as gender and race studies.
Her current research focuses on the materiality of writing and on how students use culture as a way to build campus communities. She is also interested in empathy as a mode of living, connecting, writing, and being. -
Rania Zuri
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioRania Zuri is the founder and CEO of The LiTEArary Society, the world’s largest youth-led nonprofit organization working to end book deserts for disadvantaged preschool children. To date, The LiTEArary Society has donated more than $1 million worth of brand new books to over 91,000 disadvantaged preschool children in all 50 states. The LiTEArary Society has partnerships and has received funding from Scholastic, Inc., Barnes & Noble, L'Oréal, Hershey’s, Pilot Pens, and Starbucks.
For her work in early childhood literacy, she has been featured on Good Morning America, Forbes, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, The Today Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show (x2), CBS Evening News, NPR, Fox News, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, NowThis, The Hill, People Magazine, and more.
She was named by Forbes as one of "Six Teens Making the World a Better Place” in 2022 and made the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2024 as the youngest CEO on the entire list. In 2023, Rania received The Diana Award, one of the most prestigious international accolades a young person (ages 8 to 25) can receive for social or humanitarian work and was one of only 3 recipients out of the 189 global recipients to be introduced by Prince Harry. In 2023, Rania was honored at the White House by the First Lady of the United States as a "Girl Leading Change" in celebration of International Day of the Girl. Most recently, Rania was honored by L'Oréal Paris as a L’Oréal Woman of Worth, L'Oréal's signature philanthropic initiative which honors 10 female leaders each year.
Rania has given a TEDx Talk on book deserts with over 43,000 views on TED.com and Youtube and was the keynote speaker at the annual WV Head Start Conference. She has written op-eds for Teen Vogue and NBC News Online on education as well. She serves as an ambassador for many organizations and corporations, including the United Nations Association (as a UNA-USA Global Goals Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal #4).
She is the youngest author of a US Senate Resolution in U.S. history and has written a children’s picture book series (sold in-store at select Barnes & Noble stores) where 100% of the profits go to the purchase of brand-new Scholastic books for preschool children in Head Start programs.
Rania is a Coca-Cola Scholar, a U.S. Presidential Scholar, a Cameron Impact Scholar, a Taco Bell Live Mas Scholar, winner of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, and has received 3 US Congressional Commendations as well as the George H.W. Bush Point of Light Award.
