People
David McCarthy
Director, Arts Living-Learning Community
Faculty, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
artsliving@msu.edu
mccar148@msu.edu
(517) 884-6353
David McCarthy is the Director of the Arts Living Learning Community and a faculty member in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, where he teaches interdisciplinary classes on a range of topics related to labor, modern life, race, and sound. He earned a Ph.D. in musicology at the City University of New York (Graduate Center), Masters degrees in saxophone and historical musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Prof. John Nichol at Central Michigan University. His work as an artist, community organizer, educator, researcher, and writer is interdisciplinary and based in collaborations with colleagues, community partners, and students.
Lily Dixon
President, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth
Ambassador for Incarcerated Arts Program, Arts Living-Learning Community
Lily Dixon is a sophomore double majoring in Arts and Humanities and Public Policy, with minors in Music and Design Justice. As an ALLC ambassador, she participates in the Incarcerated Arts Programming through the MSU Registered Student Organization, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth, and assists with recruitment activities. You can also catch her playing bass in the House Band, whipping up posters, or hauling students to events in the MSU shuttle bus.
Charlotte Tanner
Vice President, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth
Ambassador for Incarcerated Arts Program, Arts Living-Learning Community
Charlotte Tanner is a senior at MSU double majoring in Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with a minor in Spanish. In her role as an ALLC ambassador, she is involved in the Incarcerated Arts Program, facilitating and participating in workshops with the MSU Registered Student Organization, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth, as well as fulfilling other executive board responsibilities, such as holding recruitment and planning events for the club. She can also be found doing other various activities at Snyder-Phillips, including working alongside artists to install new exhibits in the LookOut Gallery, consulting with students in the Art Studio, learning new programs like Photoshop in the Language Media Center, and having fun singing in the House Band.
Abigail Bowers
Secretary, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth
Ambassador for Incarcerated Arts Program, Arts Living-Learning Community
Abigail Bowers is a sophomore with a major in Arts and Humanities and a minor in Education and Society. As an ALLC ambassador, she participates in the Incarcerated Arts Programming through the MSU Registered Student Organization, Creative Collaboration with Incarcerated Youth, She is one of the founding members and is on the executive board as the Secretary. The executive board plans two trips per week at the Ingham County Youth Center and organizes arts programming for those trips. As secretary, Abby helps to brainstorm activity ideas and design plans for the bi-weekly programming. She also worked on installing and preparing an installation in Snyder-Phillips at MSU, displaying the youth’s artwork throughout the past year.
Leah Haberek is a sophomore at the Honors College, pursuing academic interests in Digital Storytelling and Philosophy and serves as a Professorial Assistant for David McCarthy for the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Leah is passionate about supporting creative individuals and contributing to the community through innovative problem-solving. Her skills span a range of areas, including graphic design, logistical planning, videography, audio recording, and marketing. Additionally, Leah is actively involved with the New Music Forum, where she lends her help to organize and promote events.
Katelyn Jewett
Ambassador for Media and Communications, Arts Living-Learning Community
Katelyn Jewett is a sophomore majoring in Graphic Design. She serves as the Ambassador for Media and Communications for the Arts Living-Learning Community, where she manages the community’s website and oversees the social media presence. Additionally, she created the ALLC logo and creates promotional materials for the community. In this role, she actively engages with campus organizations, students, and faculty to foster collaborations and coordinate events.
Hayley Asai is a sophomore Honors College student pursuing a major in Graphic Design. They currently serve as the Community Building Ambassador for the Arts Living-Learning Community. Additionally, they are focused on expanding the program’s letterpress printing initiatives. Beyond the ALLC, Hayley’s interests community outreach, design systems, fine art, and social engagement.
Christopher P. Long
cplong@msu.edu
(517) 355-4597
Christopher P. Long is an MSU Foundation Professor, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters, Dean of the MSU Honors College, and Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Recognized for values-enacted leadership, Dean Long is committed to the transformative power of liberal arts research and teaching by enriching graduate and undergraduate education, advancing equity and inclusive excellence, recruiting and retaining world-class faculty, and creating new opportunities for collaboration among community partners.
He began his tenure as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters on July 1, 2015. Under his leadership, several advances have been made to help raise the College’s international reputation including the creation of the new Department of African American and African Studies, the Center for Interdisciplinarity, the Citizen Scholars program, the Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, and the Excel Network. He also has established the College of Arts & Letters as a catalyst of innovation and collaboration at MSU through signature partnerships with the MSU Libraries to create the Digital Scholarship Lab and with the Broad College of Business and the College of Natural Science to create the Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative (EDLI).
On July 1, 2021, he assumed additional leadership responsibilities as the Dean of the MSU Honors College where his priorities are to enhance the quality of the student experience, recruit and retain a wide diversity of high-performing students, and engage alumni and friends in strategic philanthropy that will elevate the leadership position of the Honors College.
An advocate of public scholarship, open access, and digital approaches to scholarship and pedagogy, Dean Long has frequently written about the benefits of using digital modes of communication to enable public education, scholarship, and collaboration. He also discusses these issues in his Digital Dialogue podcast, the MSU Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast, and the Long View blog.
He has secured over $7M of funded research projects, including serving as a Principal Investigator on Mellon Foundation project to support the Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership, the HuMetricsHSS initiative committed to rethinking humane indicators of research excellence in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), and the Public Philosophy Journal, an open forum for the curation and creation of accessible scholarship that deepens our understanding of issues related to public relevance.
An expert in both ancient Greek and contemporary continental philosophy, Dean Long’s extensive publication record include four books: The Ethics of Ontology (SUNY 2004), Aristotle On the Nature of Truth (Cambridge 2010), Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge 2014), and Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics (Punctum 2018).
Dean Long received his MA and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York and BA from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Prior to coming to MSU, he was Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education and Professor of Philosophy and Classics in the College of the Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University.
To learn more about Dean Long’s administrative approach and his research in philosophy, digital scholarly communication, and higher education, visit his website: www.cplong.org or his Humanities Commons profile. You can reach him on Mastodon at @cplong.
Dylan AT Miner
dminer@msu.edu
517-884-1323
Dylan Miner is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is Professor and Interim Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University. Since 2015, he has also served as Director of MSU’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies program. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published by the University of Arizona Press. His scholarly writing has been published and distributed by Duke University Press, Yale University Press, Washington State University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Oxford University Press, Michigan State University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Toronto Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Blackwell, among others. As an artist, he has hung more than two dozen solo art exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. Recently, he exhibited in the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone in Montreal and at the National Gallery of Canada. At the beginning of the pandemic, he hung a solo exhibition entitled “These Conditions Can Be Changed” at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. Born and raised in Michigan, Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.