Mariam Abou-Kathir is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Brown University. She earned her BA in English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo and MA in English at New York University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Sufi poetry and Islamic philosophy, exploring questions of being, death, temporality and poetic representation. Her dissertation project centers on the phenomenological and affective poetic representation of love and being in Sufi poetry. Mariam first engaged with the Sheridan Center through the Sheridan Teaching Seminar Certificate Program. Since then, she served as a Sheridan Teaching Consultant in Fall 2023.

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.

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.

Britt Threatt graduated from Rhodes College with B.A.s in English literature and theatre; she earned a M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2019 and is now pursuing her doctorate in the same program. Her research intersects performance studies, literary theory, monster theory, and women’s history. She studies slave legacies in Black women’s science fiction and fantasy. Britt began working with the Sheridan Center in Spring 2019 through their Teaching Certificate program and joined the Writing Center that Fall 2019 where she has worked since.