ISRC has three members on its master staff - a dorm master and two assistant masters. Our master staff for the 2011-2012 school year is composed of:
• Margaret Dempster
· Position: Senior Lecturer
· Department: French & Italian
· Dorm role: Master
· About me: In addition to my role as Master of the ISRC, I also work in the French and Italian Department, where my responsibilities include coordinator of first-year French, new teaching assistant trainer and Study Abroad adviser. I also teach first-, second- and third-year French courses. My French studies have brought me to France where I have traveled, studied and taught. I completed my Masters in French literature at the University of Illinois, and my Ph.D. at Indiana University. Some of my research interests are eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, twentieth-century women writers, autobiography and identity. When I am not speaking French, I love running marathons, listening to live music, going to restaurants and traveling!
• Lynn Whitcomb
· Position: Senior Lecturer
· Department: African and Asian Languages (Arabic)
· Dorm role: Associate Master
· About me: In addition to being Associate Master of ISRC, I currently serve as the Coordinator of Arabic Language Instruction in the Program of African and Asian Languages. My research and dissertation concerned sociolinguistic norms in diglossic countries and Arabic language teaching methodologies in the USA, and grew out of my experiences living in Egypt. Although my BA is in Mathematics with a minor in International and Area Studies (concentration: West Africa), I have more recently completed both a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (here at NU). I enjoy learning languages, gardening and cooking.
•Hayley Glaholt | More information
·Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student
· Department: Religion
· Dorm role: Assistant Master
· About me: I am a doctoral student at Northwestern, studying Quakerism, women's religious history, and animal rights. I have been ISRC's Assistant Master since 2007 and love meeting new ISRCers each Fall. I am also the resident Canadian at our dorm, a fact that students remind me of on a daily basis! Over the past few years I have traveled to India, North Carolina, and New England for archival research. When not sitting at a desk working on my dissertation or teaching undergraduate courses through NU's Department of Religious Studies, I love going to the Evanston Dog Beach with my beloved dog Frida, eating out at Evanston's and Chicago's wonderful selection of restaurants, and driving to Indiana and Wisconsin for outdoor adventures. ISRC is the *greatest* residential college and I have enjoyed each year working as the Assistant Master!
