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Alex Galarza
Alex is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Michigan State University whose research examines soccer and society in late twentieth-century Argentina. He is also the founder of the Football Scholars Forum, an academic book club that meets monthly over the internet to discuss books on soccer.
Michigan State University
History PhD Student
Twitter: @galarzalex
     
Katy Meyers
Katy is an Anthropology PhD Student who specializes in Mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. She received her MSc from University of Edinburgh and BA from SUNY Geneseo. She is also active in the digital humanities as part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative and a former fellow, and is the head game designer for an educational video game, Red Land Black Land. She writes bi-weekly blog posts on her personal blog, Bones Don’t Lie, as well as writes for the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, MSU Campus Archaeology, and is a guest writer on Past Horizons and ProfHacker.
Michigan State University
Anthropology PhD Student
Email: kmeyers35 [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @bonesdonotlie

Contributing Authors
    
Amy Rubens
Amy Rubens attends Indiana University where she is a PhD candidate in English; she also has a doctoral minor in American Studies. She’s completing her dissertation, Making ‘Medicine’ in America, a Literary Account, 1870-1950. In addition to the medical humanities, her research and teaching interests include the Harlem Renaissance, American literary realism and naturalism, and contemporary autobiography. During her tenure at IU, she has taught first-year composition, professional writing, and literature. At Ivy Tech Community College, she taught developmental writing and world fiction. Currently, she is an Associate Instructor with IU’s Department of American Studies. When she’s not researching or teaching, she blogs about “books, backpacking, and everything in between” at www.theambulantscholar.com.
Indiana University
English PhD Candidate
Email: arubens [at] indiana [dot] edu
Twitter: @ambulantscholar
Website: www.theambulantscholar.com
  
Andrea Zellner
Andrea is a PhD student in the Ed Psych/Ed Tech Program at Michigan State University.  Her research interests center around the ways knowledge moves within networks, specifically in terms of teacher practice with technology.  She is a former High School English and Biology teacher and misses it every day.  Andrea also works with the Red Cedar Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, and will talk K16 writing with you any time. She can be found writing random things over at her blog, Stumbling Towards Proficiency, and even more random things can be found on her twitter feed, @AndreaZellner.  Andrea often overuses the word “fetishization” and once planned and executed a flash mob for a class project (because you can get away with such things in grad school).
Michigan State University
Ed Psych/Ed Tech PhD Student
Twitter: @AndreaZellner

Chris Stawksi
Chris is a seventh year grad student at Michigan State University in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology.  He is currently writing his dissertation regarding the Prehispanic Tarascan State Of Western Mexico, focusing on issues of state emergence, landscapes, and human-environment interactions. He is currently the Campus Archaeologist at MSU, and contribute to the Campus Archaeology Program blog (CAPBlog).  He also dabbles in website design, GIS, casual creative writing, and mapping.
Michigan State University
Email: stawskic [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @roamingacademic

Cory Owen
Cory is a doctoral student at the University of Houston studying Educational Leadership. Her current research focuses on Asian American students and how the model minority myth influences and interacts with students choices in majors (particularly in the STEM fields). She is a part-time graduate student who also work at Rice University in the Office of International Students & Scholars. At night, she also serves as an RA in McMurtry College, one of the eleven residential colleges at Rice.
University of Houston
PhD Student, Educational Leadership
Twitter: @coowen
Email: cory [dot] owen [at] rice [dot] edu


Jensie Wight Simkins
Jensie is just starting on her thesis project involving the narrative, rhetoric, and communities surrounding mommyblogs. She is especially interested in the demographics of mommybloggers and readers, as well as how advertising and marketing complicate the relationship between the two. When she isn’t reading mommyblogs, she’s writing her own, taking care of the two kids who call her mom, or knocking other women around on the roller derby track.
University of Michigan – Flint
English MA student, Rhetoric & Composition and American Lit
Email: jwightsimkins [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @derbybeaver

Julie Platt
Julie Platt has taught writing to hundreds of students in college-level courses, including first-year composition, advanced composition, poetry writing, and creative nonfiction writing. She has taught in face-to-face and online classroom environments, and specializes in teaching with and about technology. Her creative writing background informs her rhetoric scholarship, and she currently studies the intersection of the materiality of writing and the rhetorical canon of delivery. Julie has been in graduate school roughly as long the Department of Homeland Security has been in existence.
Michigan State University
Rhetoric & Writing PhD Student
Twitter: @aristotle_julep

Terry Brock
Terry is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Michigan State University who specializes in historical archaeology and public archaeology. He currently is a invited research fellow at Colonial Williamsburg, where he resides, and conducts his research at Historic St. Mary’s City in Maryland. He also continues to conduct research for the MSU Campus Archaeology Program, where he previously served as Campus Archaeologist. He blogs at his personal blog, Dirt, and also writes for the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference blog.
Anthropology PhD Candidate
Michigan State University
Email: brockter [at] msu [dot] edu
Twitter: @brockter

Trent M Kays
Trent is a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication Program in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota (UMN). His research interests center on digital rhetoric, internet studies, new media, critical pedagogy, identity, and ethics. Currently, he is teaching first-year writing for the First-Year Writing Program at UMN and engaged in research exploring the intersections of expressivist pedagogy and public/digital writing. He is editor and founder of First-Year Writing Talk!: a website dedicated to first-year writing issues. He also maintains a personal blog and website, Rhetorical Rumination, about rhetorical studies; a photo blog, Critique In Passing, dedicated to photos taken around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro; and a Twitter feed, @trentmkays, which is rarely politically correct and censored.
University of Minnesota
Department of Writing Studies PhD Student
Email: kays [dot] trent [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @trentmkays
Website: http://trentmkays.com
 

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