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Faculty Chair's Welcome

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Dear Incoming Willard Residents:

As the  of Willard Residential College, I am delighted to welcome you to ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥’s oldest and liveliest residential college. You are joining an exceptional group of ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ students, a vibrant community, and a rich tradition you will love and remember long after you graduate! Our student Executive Board will provide many opportunities for you to interact with other residents at fun events throughout the year.

Willard features a cohesive community, and your own unique interests and active participation are essential to shaping Willard’s direction this year. We have no mold into which you must fit and no set of beliefs to which you must conform. While some residential colleges are thematic and devote themselves to a particular area of study, Willard takes the opposite approach. It promotes mixing and interaction of students from many schools and disciplines. The Willard world is diverse in all senses, including intellectually. You are just as likely to end up having a conversation with a musician or dramatist as you are an economist or chemist.

Myself, our Assistant Chair Gillian Hemme, and our Exec Board are all looking forward to meeting you during our welcome activities!

Gillian Hemme is in her fourth year of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama. She examines the impacts of incarceration on the body as made legible through performance, and she conducts her work through embodied performance practices as well as archival research. Gillian is also a performer, playwright, and director. She serves as the point person for helping us coordinate day-to-day programmatic and administrative matters for faculty-student activities. Gillian is happy to help Willard residents with any questions or concerns that may come up to facilitate Willard's thriving, inclusive community! She looks forward to seeing you at High Table lunches, Willard functions, and office hours in her Willard office in the WFFL.

In the Fall I will be teaching COMP_SCI 111, Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1 which is mostly for Computer Science majors and McCormick students, though it is open to all. In the Winter I’ll offer COMP_SCI 110, Introduction to Computer Programming which is open to students across campus and introduces the basics of computer programming. If you’re in my class, make sure to come and let me know you’re a Willard resident! Our  also love to see Willard students not only at High Table (weekly lunches) but also in their courses so make sure to take a look to see if any fit your schedule.

We will soon embark on this new journey together! Though this is my first year as Willard’s Faculty Chair, I have been involved with Willard since 2018 as the Assistant Chair while finishing my PhD here at NU. I hope that Willard can become a special place for each and every one of you–just as it did for me those many years ago.

See you soon!

Connor Bain, Ph.D. – Willard Faculty Chair
Assistant Professor of Instruction, McCormick School of Engineering

Willard Residential College Fellows and Graduate Associates

Willard Residential College fellows and graduate associates

Name	Position	Department
Feyza Burak-Adli	Postdoctoral Fellow	Anthropology
KB Dennis Meade	Assistant Professor	Religious Studies
Domenic Desocio	Assistant Professor of Instruction	German
Eli Finkel	Professor	Psychology
Linda Gates	Associate Professor of Instruction	Theatre
Danielle Gilbert	Assistant Professor	Political Science
Megan Hyska	Assistant Professor	Philosophy
Daniel Immerwahr	Professor	History
Amy Kehoe	Associate Director	Office of Fellowships
Gary Saul Morson	Professor	Slavic Languages & Literature
Susan Osborn	Lecturer	Music Performance
Carl Petry	Professor Emeritus	History
Matt Pryor	Visiting Assistant Professor	Political Science
Scott Sowerby	Associate Professor	History
Stacia Spencer	Senior Lecturer	Music Performance
Richard Walker	Associate Professor of Instruction	Economics
Michal Wilczewski	Visiting Lecturer	Slavic Languages & Literature