Calvin is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics. His research focuses on the experimental implementation of novel quantum sensing techniques, specifically for the purpose of looking at magnetic fluctuations in strongly correlated materials. He first became engaged with the Sheridan Center through the Sheridan Teaching Seminar and later again through the Decolonization in STEM reading group. He has served as a Teaching Consultant and designed a course on learning physics through large scale failures in the field that he taught as part of the Summer@Brown Pre-College program. Before coming to Brown, he earned his B.A. in physics with a minor in French from Clark University.

Sarah is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the History Department. She was a Brown undergrad and majored in Literary Arts before getting her MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines the intimate lives of women enslaved as domestic laborers in early medieval Europe, from Ireland to the Byzantine Empire. Sarah was an associate at the Writing Center for several years and became involved with the Sheridan Center through the Teaching Certificate and Course Design Seminar, and has since served as a Teaching Consultant.

Mark is a fifth-year PhD candidate in biomedical engineering. Before Brown, he earned a BS and MS in biomedical engineering from Bucknell and Tufts Universities, respectively. His research has focused on the development of stem cell-based models of cardiac toxicity and disease to improve human health without a reliance on animal models. In addition to his research, he has taught extensively as a teaching assistant, co-instructor, and instructor at Brown and beyond. Mark began working with the Sheridan Center through the Teaching Certificate Program and has since served as a Teaching Consultant and Departmental Liaison.

A literary critic and creative writer from Los Angeles, California, Juan Gallardo is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the English department. He is a scholar of Lacanian psychoanalysis, African American literature, narrative theory, and rhetoric and composition. This will be his third year with the Sheridan Writing Center.

Brianna McNish earned a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Connecticut, where she found her love of teaching and talking about writing. She is now a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Brown University. Her dissertation project focuses on early twentieth-century African-American literature, exploring the affective resonances of black literary productions of the “romance plot” and sensual pleasure in contention with emerging turn-of-the-century black political movements. Brianna joins the Sheridan Center in Fall 2024 as an Interdisciplinary Opportunity Fellow after completing Sheridan’s Teaching Certificate program in Fall 2023.