2017-18 Faculty Spotlight

Haosheng Yang

photo of Haosheng Yang(Department of German, Russian, Asian, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

"I enjoy teaching a lot — especially the intellectual communication I have with my students, who call me Yang-laoshi ('teacher' in Chinese). I feel passionate about sharing my literary knowledge with my students."


Read what Dr. Yang had to say about her research.


Jonathan Strauss

photo of Jonathan Strauss(Department of French and Italian)

"My favorite thing about teaching is getting an unexpected question or comment from a student that reveals something new about our discussion. For that reason I always make a point to listen carefully and adapt to student needs."


Read what Dr. Strauss had to say about his research and his love of hang gliding.


José Amador

photo of José Amador(Department of Global & Intercultural Studies)

"In my teaching, I try to develop students' critical thinking and writing skills in order for them to achieve their fullest potential. This entails a lot of classroom work and discussion. I encourage an atmosphere of open dialogue that is fact-based. Students must critically engage with primary sources to come up with potential answers to a historical question. My teaching philosophy is about engaging students with critical ideas that allow them to understand the past and reflect on the present."


Read what Dr. Amador had to say about his research on the transnational circulation of medical ideas.


Cameron Hay-Rollins

photo of Cameron Hay-Rollins(Department of Anthropology)

"I work to ignite my students' interest and passion in engaging with the world around them. Anthropology is very strange to a lot of people until they wrap their heads around it! So I usually start courses weighing class time towards lectures to give students a sense of how anthropologists think, and then shift the balance towards open discussions, so that the students and I learn from each other."


Read what Dr. Hay-Rollins had to say about her passion for improving global health and well-being.


David Berg

photo of David Berg(Department of Biology)

"Bringing passion and enthusiasm into my courses is important to making students into active thinkers. We do a lot of inquiry-based and hands-on activities: laboratories, field trips, and even a bit of simulation modeling. Everything is designed to encourage the students to actively manage their own learning and to rely on their interest in what we are doing to help stimulate them."


Read what Dr. Berg had to say about his research in evolutionary and conservation biology.


Janardan Subedi

photo of Janardan Subedi(Department of Sociology and Gerontology)

"Providing my students a realistic understanding of life is very important to me. We all need critical knowledge, but it has its own limitations. I give students practical, day-to-day life examples to help them understand what life, society, health systems, diseases are all about. I always tell them that practical knowledge is as important as critical knowledge: so you need experience, to see the world, to travel, and go abroad."


Read what Dr. Subedi had to say about his research as a social epidemiologist.


Lynette Hudiburgh

photo of Lynette Hudiburgh(Department of Statistics)

"Teaching is never boring. I love having an opportunity to develop relationships with my students. What's really exciting is when they come back and tell me how they can apply what they learned in my class to another."


Read what Ms. Hudiburgh had to say about her hybrid learning approach to teaching.