MEET OUR FACULTY SUCCESS PROGRAM COACHES

Julie Artis, PhD is Associate Professor of Sociology at Depaul University in Chicago. In addition to being an excellent classroom teacher and scholar of motherhood, family and law, Julie is happily married and mother of two children. Julie is also currently Chair of her department and an expert in balancing teaching, research and administrative roles and responsibilities.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

post-tenure productivity
mid-career challenges
transitions into departmental leadership
balancing work, family, and administrative responsibilities

Badia Sahar Ahad, PhD is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Programs in English at Loyola University Chicago and is the author of Freud Upside Down: African-American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture (U of Illinois Press, 2010). Her areas of specialization are post-World War II African American literature, cultural studies, the history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory. Currently, Badia is working on a second book project that examines the concept of nostalgia and black radical iconology. When she is not working, Badia enjoys running, learning how to golf, Breaking Bad, and eating her way through Chicago.

Faculty Success Coaching Specializations:

Academic publishing
Moving from dissertation to book
Maintaining work-life balance
Networking
Post-tenure mentoring

Shanna Greene Benjamin, PhD is Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College. A specialist in African American literature and culture, Shanna is currently completing her first book In Control of Her Narrative: A Biography of Nellie Y. McKay with the support of an American Association of University Women (AAUW) postdoctoral fellowship. Shanna is a recovering perfectionist and her inner critic’s obituary is at the press. By learning to trust her own voice, Shanna has broken down the barriers that once kept her from fulfilling her potential as a writer and scholar.

Faculty Success Coaching Specializations:

Finding joy along the tenure track
Developing a daily-writing practice
Developing and trusting your academic voice
Maximizing academic leaves
Completing your dissertation

David Cook-Martin, PhD is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. His scholarship focuses on race, ethnicity, law and citizenship. He is the author of The Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and the Competition for Immigrants (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). David is currently working on a project that examine ethnic racial exclusions in immigration and antionality policies in the Americas since 1850. His life is otherwise about getting two kids wherever they need to go an finding time to hang out with their mother.

Faculty Success Coaching Specializations:

work-family balance
using technology to enhance productivity
working smarter by understanding work flows
moderating emotional investments in service and teaching
post-tenure planning

Kathryn Gines, PhD is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and Founding Director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Her scholarship focuses on Black Feminism, Continental Philosophy, and Critical Philosphy of Race. She co-edited Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy and recently completed her first book Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (forthcoming). In addition to being a productive scholar and organizer for women of color in her field, Kathryn is happily married with three young children, teaches yoga in Happy Valley, and is a master of work-life balance.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

work-family balance
mind-body health
moving from dissertation to book

Roxanne Donovan, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology and Assistant Coordinator of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Kennesaw State University. Her scholarship focuses on racism, mental health, and stereotypic images of Black women. She has published numerous articles in feminist, ethnic minority, and psychology journals. In addition to her academic work, Roxanne is a licensed psychologist in the state of Georgia, a spouse (her partner is also an academic), a mother of two young children, and an expert negotiator.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

post-tenure mentoring
thriving on the tenure-track
work-life integration
empirical/scientific writing
negotiation

Naomi Greyser, PhD is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English at the University of Iowa. Naomi does research in the areas of critical race, queer and feminist theory; U.S. literature; affect studies; and rhetoric. She recently co-edited a forums feature for American Quarterly and is currently completing her first book. Inspired by her experiences working through a long history of writer's block with Kerry Ann's help, Naomi is also researching how writer's block

is raced, gendered and classed — and social and institutional, as well as deeply personal

—

for a new project, Writing through Writer's Block.

Naomi negotiated the two-body problem, welcomed a little girl into her life while on the tenure track, and continues to practice overcoming resistance to writing when she sits down at the computer every weekday!

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

writing from intellectual and political commitment and curiosity, rather than fear or defensiveness
work-family balance
developing a daily writing practice
overcoming resistance to writing, or writer's block
working with high-anxiety writers

Joycelyn Moody, PhD is currently the Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she teaches courses on African American literature. She served as Editor-in-Chief of African American Review from Fall 2004 through Spring 2008. She has taught at several institutions, including the University of Washington, Saint Louis University, Hamilton College, and the Harvard School of Divinity. Besides articles and chapters, her publications include Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women and Teaching with The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 2nd Ed.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

post-tenure faculty
thriving in the academy
overcoming resistance to writing

Monica Ogra, PhD is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Gettysburg College. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental Studies and the Department of Globalization Studies. Her research examines the intersections of biodiversity conservation and rural development, with a focus on how conservation conflicts at the ground level are mediated by gender issues. Monica has recently been awarded tenure and promotion (effective Fall 2012) and has experience successfully navigating the tenure-track as part of a dual-career couple. She is the mother of two boys (3 and 6 years old), a practicing student of yoga, and has recently found her way back to cultivation of her personal interests including reading for pleasure, cooking, gardening and painting.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

work-family balance
daily scientific/empirical writing
thriving on the tenure track
overcoming perfectionism

Mindi Thompson, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarship is guided by her social justice orientation and specific interests include: factors that impact career and educational development for diverse groups; mental health services and psychotherapy; and poverty, social status, and classism. She is also a licensed psychologist in the state of Wisconsin and provides clinical work (psychotherapy and supervision) from a multicultural and feminist orientation. Mindi enjoys traveling, cultivating, relationships, making and eating good food, athletic events, and the outdoors.

Faculty Success Coaching specializations:

juggling multiple responsibilities
moving manuscripts out the door
daily scientific/empirical writing
finding supportive communities and decreasing isolation
work-life-relationship balance

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