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).

Ian Petrie
Associate Director
petrie@sas.upenn.edu; 215-746-7677

Ian Petrie is Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He took a B.A. in History from Queen’s University and an M.A. in Chinese history from the University of British Columbia. He completed his doctorate in South Asian history at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. From 2004 to 2009 he taught at Saint Joseph’s University. His teaching and research interests focus on the history of science, technology and development in India and Bangladesh.

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, 2009-2010

Bryan Cameron
Hispanic Studies

bryanc@sas.upenn.edu

Bryan is a fifth-year student in the Department of Romance Languages, writing a dissertation on the realignment of gender roles following the Revolution of 1868 in Spain. Before coming to Penn, Bryan taught secondary Spanish for four years in the Philadelphia School District, participated in the construction of the Scope and Sequence Curriculum for the district, completed training in both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course design, and served as a faculty mentor for Teach for America. At Penn he has taught beginner and intermediate undergraduate language courses as well as graduate seminars on Spanish translation.

 

Barbara Elias
Political Science
belias@sas.upenn.edu

As a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Political Science Barbara Elias studies International Relations, U.S. foreign policy and counterinsurgency warfare. She has been a teaching assistant for multiple classes in International Relations, most recently “War, Strategy and Politics” and “The Causes of War and Peace.” In 2009 she was awarded a Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students.

 

Rosemary Frasso

Social Policy and Practice

rofrasso@sp2.upenn.edu

Rosemary Frasso is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice. She has earned two Masters Degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health and holds national certification in Public Health (CPH). Rosemary is currently working on a project examining the impact of maternal literacy on pediatric health care utilization. At Penn she teaches Introduction to Social Work Research and Qualitative Research.  She is also adjunct faculty at Drexel University's School of Public Health where she teaches Behavioral Assessment and Community Epidemiology. Rosemary's interests include teaching, improving access to physical and mental health services for vulnerable populations, health disparities and health literacy.

Jessica Lautin
History
jelautin@gmail.com

Jessica is a sixth-year student in the history department, whose dissertation explores how black cultural institutions influenced African-American political and community development in Philadelphia from the 1950s through the 1970s. While at Penn she has been a teaching assistant both within her field (American in the 1960s and American from 1865 to the Present) and outside of it (The Third Reich and Europe from 1500 to the Present). For two years, she served as a senior tutor for Penn’s Writing Center and this year is teaching her own seminar, “Philadelphia Past and Present” through the Critical Writing Program.

Nathaniel Prottas

History of Art
nprottas@sas.upenn.edu

Nathaniel Prottas is a third-year in the History of Art Department, where he specializes on archaism and self-aware image making in late 15th century Netherlandish painting. Before coming to Penn, Nathaniel completed his Masters at University College London, while working part-time for Sotheby's. For the last four years he has been a lecturer and educator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters, and spent 2008 as a lecturer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. At Penn he has TAed for Visual Studies 101 and The Road Movie.In the Spring of 2009 he was awarded the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.

 

Amanda Reiterman

Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
amandasr@sas.upenn.edu

Amanda Reiterman is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary program for the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Her dissertation will focus on the Early Bronze Age Aegean, and her other ongoing research projects involve Greek vase-painting and the Pantheon in Rome. Amanda earned a B.A. in Archaeological Studies from Yale University and an M.St. in European Archaeology at Oxford University. She has served as a teaching assistant at Penn for the past two years for four different courses within the ancient history, art history, and classical studies departments, and she has a special interest in incorporating museum resources into lesson plans.

Nicole Ruedy
Operations and Information Management
nruedy@wharton.upenn.edu

Nicole is a doctoral student in the Operations and Information Management Department. Her research focuses on decision making, in particular the influence of emotions and contextual factors on ethical decision making. Nicole served as a TA for undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA courses in Decision Making and Negotiations. She also taught her own undergraduate course, which introduced students to formal decision making models and surveyed current behavioral research in judgment and decision making.

Paul White

Mechanical Engineering

pwhitey86@gmail.com

Paul is a 4th year doctoral student in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department. His research is in the area of modular robotics, specifically in developing methods to miniaturize these systems. He has served as a Teachings Assistant for three Mechanical Engineering lab courses and co-instructed the robotics program for the Summer Academy in Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Robotics Program. He was an invited lecturer for Introduction to SolidWorks classes for Design Fundamentals (IPD403). In the Fall of 2007, Paul was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering.

 

CTL Contact information:

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