CTL Staff

Bruce Lenthall
Director
lenthall@sas.upenn.edu; 215-898-4170

Bruce Lenthall is the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and his B.A. from Carleton College. Prior to returning to Penn, he taught in the history departments at Bryn Mawr College and Barnard College. From 2003 to 2006, he ran Penn’s speaking program, Communication Within the Curriculum, teaching oral communication and working with faculty to use student speaking effectively in the classroom. In his own teaching and research, he explores 20th-century U.S. cultural, political and social history. He is the author of a book on radio in the United States in the 1930s, Radio’s America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Catherine Turner
Associate Director
caturner@sas.upenn.edu; 215-898-1686

Catherine Turner is the Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. She earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1998 to 2007, she taught English and American Studies at College Misericordia where she also served at Honors Co-Director. Her teaching and research focuses on the business of publishing, taste, and public policy. She is the author of Marketing Modernism Between the Two Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) Her current research examines the intersections between the publishing industry, literacy programs, and public policy during the 1920s and 1930s.

Joyce Roselle
Administrative Assistant
jroselle@sas.upenn.edu; 215-746-3613

CTL Graduate Fellows for Teaching Excellence, 2008-9

Vicky Doan-Nguyen

Chemistry

vickyd@sas.upenn.edu

Vicky is a doctoral candidate in the Chemistry Department. Her research involves using density functional theory to investigate how alloying affects the surface reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis, such as steam reforming of methanol to produce hydrogen for solid oxide fuel cells. She has served as a teaching assistant at Penn for the General Chemistry sequence as well as for Honors Chemistry. In August 2008, she will be a TA instructor for the SAS TA Training.

Drew Hilton

Computer Science

adhilton@cis.upenn.edu

Drew is a 5th year doctoral student in the Computer and Information Science Department.  His area of research is computer architecture, specifically designing processors to tolerate the increasing relative latency of main memory. As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, Drew served as a TA for introductory programming courses.  At Penn he has been a TA for computer architecture courses and he has tuaght his own class on C++.

Greta Lynn

English

gll@sas.upenn.edu

Greta Lynn is a fourth-year student in the English department, writing a dissertation on the history of psychology in early America and the emergence of sexuality as a component dimension of selfhood. Before coming to Penn, Greta taught middle-school English in France as a Fulbright/IIE Teaching Fellow. At Penn, Greta has served as a teaching assistant for courses in English literature such as “Law and Literature” and “The 18th Century British Enlightenment.  She has also taught a class of her own, "Bodies of Knowledge,” through the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, where she continues to work as a Teaching Mentor for current CPCW faculty.

Peter Mondelli

Music

mondelli@sas.upenn.edu

Peter is a fourth year student in the Ph.D. program in the history of music. His dissertation will offer a history of the idea of voice in the 19th century through an examination of the material culture of language and song in Paris from the French Revolution to the introduction of recorded sound. For four semesters, he taught an introductory course in the history of Western music that traced the development of written traditions in Europe and America from the Middle Ages to the present.

Clayton Shonkwiler

Math

shonkwil@math.upenn.edu

Clayton is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics.  His research is focused on finding new invariants of Riemannian manifolds with boundary and defining higher-order helicities for vector fields.  As a Graduate Fellow for Access Science, a Penn program devoted to improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction in West Philadelphia public schools, he has done extensive curriculum development and been a TA for The Community Math Teaching Project and for The Community Algebra Initiative, two Academically-Based Community Service courses.   Clayton has also taught Calculus I and been a TA for Ideas in Mathematics, Calculus II and Riemannian Geometry.  He has been one of the math department's Master TAs since 2005 and has received the department's Good Teaching Award twice.

 

Nicole Myers Turner

History

turnern@sas.upenn.edu

Nicole is a fourth year student in the history department whose dissertation will explore the role of religious institutions in shaping freedpeople’s transition from slavery to freedom in postemancipation Virginia.   Prior to her enrollment at Penn, she taught middle and high school students at an all girls independent school and previously served as a graduate teaching assistant  at Union Theological Seminary.  As a student at Penn she has been a teaching assistant both within her field (America in the 1960s) and outside (History of Africa to 1850). She has also served as a grader for History of American Law to 1877.   In 2008, she received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and was previously awarded  the Robert Wood Lynn Award for Promise in Teaching from Union Theological Seminary in 2002.

CTL Contact information:

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University of Pennsylvania
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215-746-3613
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