CTRL Staff

Mac Crite

Teaching & Learning Specialist

Mac Crite, PhD (they/them) is a teaching and learning specialist for the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at American University. At AU, Mac provides teaching consultations and develops pedagogy workshops and programming for the AU community focusing on impactful teaching practices. Prior to working at AU, Mac earned their PhD in virology from Yale University. In addition to their scientific research, they were a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, where they worked with instructors of all levels to help the instructors meet their teaching and learning goals.

mcrite@american.edu

Hannah Jardine

Teaching & Learning Specialist

Hannah Jardine, PhD (she/her) is a teaching and learning specialist for the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning. She supports faculty development through facilitating workshops on a variety of teaching and learning topics, conducting one-on-one teaching consultations, and developing resources and programming around inclusive and excellent teaching.

hjardine@american.edu

202-885-6818

Tiffany Quash

Qualitative/Survey Research Methodologist

Tiffany Monique Quash is a research methodologist specializing in qualitative and methods at the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning. In this role, she provides methodological consultations to American University faculty, staff, and students. Tiffany has a background in narrative inquiry, phenomenology, and case study methodologies. Additionally, she is interested in the intentional use of decolonizing language when addressing aquatic accomplishments and barriers centered on the experiences of Black Womxn.

tmquash@american.edu

202-885-3867

Anna Olsson

Assistant Vice Provost

Anna started working for the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning (CTRL) as a graduate fellow, and resumed the position of Manager of Training and Assessment, and later Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Resources, in CTRL’s Teaching and Learning Resources office in 2009. In this position, Anna is responsible for planning and organizing faculty events such as the Ann Ferren Conference, the August Faculty Workshops, and Noontime Conversations. She also runs the Green Teaching Program.

aolsson@american.edu

202-885-6077

Shadia (Shed) Siliman

Teaching & Learning Specialist

Shadia (Shed) Siliman (she/hers or they/them) is a teaching and learning specialist for the Center for Teaching, Research & Learning. Her expertise is in pedagogy which supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ). They graduated from Indiana University with their PhD in Gender Studies in 2020.

Siliman pulls from her research, activism, education, and teaching experience to help instructors cultivate intersectional pedagogies which center and lift up their most vulnerable students. Before coming to AU, Shed served as a Graduate Consultant for DEIJ at Indiana University and as an Instructional Consultant for DEIJ at The Ohio State University.

shed@american.edu

Mary Catherine Stoumbos

Teaching and Learning Specialist

Mary Catherine Stoumbos, PhD, (she/her) earned her doctorate in Music from Columbia University with a focus in Ethnomusicology. As an educational developer, Dr. Stoumbos works to further equitable pedagogical practices by developing resources and offering workshops, learning communities, and individual consultations to support faculty and graduate student instructors’ growth in student-centered teaching. Her research interests include the effects of public and institutional policies on student learning experiences.

Prior to joining CTRL, Dr. Stoumbos worked at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Catholic University and at the Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning. She has taught in the First Year Experience at Catholic University and in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University; she previously taught at the Ben Franklin Academy in Atlanta, GA, and was a private piano teacher. 

stoumbos@american.edu