MARSHALL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of Student Activities
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- Academic Advising Intake Advisor
Dillon Chapman (b.1995) is a San Diego-based artist, educator, and cultural critic. Her work is primarily concerned with practices of autofiction, autotheory, and hauntology, particularly as they relate to queer and trans/gender expansive histories of written and visual culture.
Chapman holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. Her work has been included in exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications, nationally and internationally, in venues including the Feminist Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), Nightingale Cinema (Chicago), Altes Finanzamt (Berlin), and CURA. Magazine (Rome).
She currently teaches writing in the Dimensions of Culture Program, Film Studies at the University of San Diego, Art History at San Diego State University, and serves as a contributing editor for HereIn Journal (San Diego).
Job Titles:
- Director, Dimensions of Culture Program
Dr. Solomon Amorao has almost two decades of experience teaching writing at UCSD, including serving as a teaching assistant then lecturer at Revelle Humanities and as Associate Director of Writing at Sixth College's Culture, Art, and Technology Program. Dr. Solomon Amorao has also taught for UCSD's Critical Gender Studies Program, Literature and Ethnic Studies departments, USD's English department, and SDSU's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. When she isn't teaching at UCSD, she is active in the San Diego Filipinx American community. Dr. Solomon Amorao proudly served from 2011 to 2017 as the Executive Director of the Kuya Ate Mentorship Program, a grassroots educational organization that empowers Filipino American youth in their exploration of history, culture, identity, and social justice.
Job Titles:
- Thurgood Marshall College Staff Member
- Provost
Leslie Carver, Provost
tmcprovost@ucsd.edu
(VACANT) Operations and Program Analyst, Office of the Provost
tmcprovost@ucsd.edu
Michael Gangitano, Academic Advising
Virtual Advising Center
Lizzy Miller, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
tmcstudentaffairs@ucsd.edu
Dr. Strom currently serves as a full-time Lecturer in the Dimensions of Culture Program, teaching all three lower-division courses.
She has taught DOC 1 lectures since Fall Quarter 2015, as well as DOC 2 and 3 lectures since 2017. She served as Interim Assistant Director of the DOC Program in 2017-18.
Dr. Strom earned her Ph.D. in History from UCSD in 2015. She holds a Bachelor's degree in History from UC Davis, as well as an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UCSD's Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS). Her doctoral work examines the culture and Cold War politics of student movements in Uruguay during the 1950s and 60s.
As DOC Director, Dr. Solomon Amorao is committed to building and teaching in a program that helps Marshall students sharpen their critical reading, writing, and thinking skills through an investigation of the promises and paradoxes of U.S. culture and society. She received her MA and PhD in Literature from UC San Diego, and her research and teaching interests include U.S. multiethnic literature, Asian American Studies, Filipino/a/x American cultural productions, critical race studies, decolonizing pedagogies, and women of color feminism. Her most recent book project, a co-edited volume with DJ Kuttin Kandi and Jen Soriano on Filipina American feminism and activism, will be published in fall 2021 by Cognella Academic Publishing.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
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- Dean of Academic Advising
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs / Juan Lopez
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- Residential Life Staff Member
- Associate Dean of Student Affairs / Director of Residential Life
- Director of Residential Life & Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs / Juan Lopez
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean of Academic Advising
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director of Residential Life ( Apartment Area )
- Assistant Director of Residential Life ( Apartments )
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- Student Care & Accountability Specialist
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
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- Senior New Student Program Specialist
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- Life Office Operations Coordinator
Students enrolled in DOC 100D will be provided with Mrs. Harpin's contact information and Zoom link on Canvas.