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Steering Committee

These academics and administrators at MDC and FIU advise the Humanities Edge; their guidance helps to shape the programs and opportunities available to students.

  • Tori Arpad-Cotta, MFA

    Tori Arpad-Cotta, MFA
    Chair and Associate Professor of Art + Art History

  • Ildiko Barsony

    Ildiko Barsony
    Assistant Professor of English; MDC

  • Elizabeth Béjar

    Elizabeth Béjar
    Provost, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

  • David Chang

    David Chang
    Graduate Director and Professor of Painting, Drawing and Visual Arts Education, Department of Art and Art History

  • Shawn Christian

    Shawn Christian
    Chair and Associate Professor, English; FIU

  • Rebecca	Friedman

    Rebecca Friedman
    Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab; Professor, Department of History, FIU

  • Taurie Gittings-Wheeler

    Taurie Gittings-Wheeler
    Instructor of Humanities, Theater & Art; MDC

  • Jody Glassman

    Jody Glassman
    Director of University Admissions, Office of Admissions; FIU

  • Victor Gomez

    Victor Gomez
    Assistant Professor of Art; MDC

  • David Heredia

    David Heredia
    Associate Professor of English, MDC

  • Jacek Kolasinski

    Jacek Kolasinski
    Executive Director of Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator & Associate Professor, Digital Media; FIU

  • Michaela Tomova

    Michaela Tomova
    Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, Miami Dade College

  • Victor Uribe

    Victor Uribe
    Chair, Department of History & Professor of History and Law; FIU

  • Janie Valdes

    Janie Valdes
    Assistant Vice President, Enrollment Management and Services, Transfer and Transition Services/Connect4Success; FIU