Meet Our Team
ICS Staff
Valeria Grinberg Pla | Director
Dr. Valeria Grinberg Pla is a literary, cultural and film critic from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who like many other Latinxs has moved to the United States. Since 2006 she is a Professor of Spanish at BGSU. She teaches classes that reflect her research interests on violence representation in Latin America, literature and film, on the appropriation and transformation of crime fiction and noir aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean, on literary and film strategies to think about war and dictatorship trauma in Central America, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, and on the Panafrican, transnational literary movements of the Afro-Caribbean populations of Central America. She has also developed a service-learning class to learn not just about, but rather from and with the Latino/a/x community in the area.
ICS 2024-2025 EXECUTIVE BOARD
- Laura Sanchez |Professor, Sociology | Fall 2024 - Spring 2027
- Tim Messer-Kruse|Professor, American Culture Studies | Fall 2024 - Spring 2027
- Nick Pavlik | Manuscripts & Digital Initiatives Archivist | Fall 2022 - Spring 2025
- Jason Kucsma | Toledo-Lucas County Public Library | Fall 2021 - Spring 2024
- Remy Attig | Assistant Professor in World Languages and Culture | Fall 2022 - Spring 2025
- Bruce Collet | Professor, School of Educational Foundations, Leadership, & Policy | Fall 2023 - Spring 2026
- Luis Moreno | Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies | Fall 2023 - Spring 2026
- Phil Dickinson | Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences (ex officio)
Role of the Board:
The primary role of the ICS Executive Board is to act in an advisory and decision-making capacity reporting to the Director on matters involving the activities and responsibilities of ICS.
Terms of Service:
Three-year term, on a staggered rotation (so that no more than 1/3 of seats are open in any year)
A Board members whose cycle has ended may re-apply for another term at any time
Makeup of the Board:
A minimum of six (6) and a maximum of ten (10) members
Faculty of any rank may apply to be on the Executive Board, but at least three (3) members must be tenured or tenure-track faculty
One (1) seat will be held by an ex-officio member designated by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (chair/director, associate dean, faculty member, etc.)
At least one (1) seat must be held by someone in the humanities (English, Philosophy, etc.)
At least one seat (1) must be held by someone in the fine or performing arts (Art, Theatre, Creative Writing, etc.)
At least one (1) seat must be held by someone in the qualitative social sciences (Sociology, Political Science, etc.)
At least one (1) seat must be held by faculty outside the College of Arts & Sciences
One (1) seat must be held by a representative from a division other than Academic Affairs
Up to one (1) seat may be held by an alumnus or community member
Graduate Assistant/Research Assistant II
Allyson Spoering | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2023 - 2024 |
Ahmad Bilal | MA, Literary and Textual Studies | AY 2023 - 2024 |
Mays Kuhail | MFA, Creative Writing | Spring 2024 |
Renee Ayala | PhD, American Culture Studies | Spring 2023 |
Iswat Jinaid | MA, American Culture Studies |
Spring 2023 |
Stanley Owusu | MA, in Public Administration | Spring 2023 |
Joseph Elia | MA, Literary and Textual Studies | AY 2022-2023 |
Johanna Simpson | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2021-2022 |
Kari Hanlin | PhD, Rhetoric and Writing | AY 2020-2022 |
Stevie Scheurich | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2019-2021 |
Courtney Keeney | MA, in Public Administration | AY 2019-2020 |
Elizabeth Brownlow | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2017-2019 |
Lauren O’Connor | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2017-2018 |
Shane Snyder | PhD, American Culture Studies | AY 2016-2017 |
Interns
Dylana Harris | MA, Spanish | Fall 2023 |
Autumn Dunaway | BA, Psychology | Fall 2023 |
- Lisa Hanasono | Associate Professor, School of Media & Communication | Fall 2021 - Spring 2024
- Rebecca Kinney | Associate Professor, School of Cultural & Critical Studies | Fall 2021 - Spring 2024
- Ana Brown | Deputy Chief for Diversity, Belonging, and Multicultural Affairs | Fall 2019 - Spring 2023
- Elizabeth Balint | Great Lakes Consortium | Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
- Thomas Edge | Lecturer of Ethnic Studies | Fall 2020 - Spring 2023
- Leigh-Ann Pahapill | Associate Professor of Art | Fall 2020 - Spring 2023
- Jerry Schnepp | Associate Professor, College of Technology Architecture and Applied Engineering | Fall 2020 - Spring 2023
- Elizabeth Balint | Great Lakes Consortium | Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
- Holly A. Kirkendall | Curator, Wood County Museum | Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
- V Jane Rosser | Director of Civic Engagement in the C. Raymond Marvin Center for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement | Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
- Abishek Bhati | Assistant Professor of Poltical Science | Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
- Julie Carle | Retired BGSU Marketing and Communications Manager | Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
- Geoffrey Howes | Professor Emeritus of German and Community Member | Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
- Mary-Jon Ludy | Associate Professor of Food and Nutrition | Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
- Thomas Castillo | Associate Professor of Theatre and Film | Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
Jolie A. Sheffer 2016-2023
(she/her) Dr. Sheffer is a professor of English and American Culture Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 and Understanding Karen Tei Yamashita. Her current research is on competing notions of community and identity in contemporary U.S. culture, from the 1960s to the present.
Clayton Rosati, Ph.D.
Dr. Rosati's interested includes issues of social justice and the ways in which relations of cultural production, through technology and industry, often work against justice projects. He has served in leadership positions for several anti-racist organizations and am also a musician, having worked in many community arts projects in the Syracuse and Washington, DC areas.
- Position: Associate Professor
- Email: crosati@bgsu.edu
- Address: 303 Kuhlin Center
Updated: 10/21/2024 12:12PM