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.
Ellen Moll has worked at Michigan State University since 2014. Ellen earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, and her undergraduate degree at MSU. Her areas of interest include curriculum, teaching and learning initiatives, interdisciplinarity, community-engaged learning, and art and humanities approaches to technology and science.
Marissa King
Director, Student Success and Advising, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Marissa King joined RCAH as the Director of Student Success and Advising in 2022. Marissa has been at MSU since 2017, where she earned an MA in Student Affairs Administration with a graduate certificate in Teaching and Learning in Postsecondary Education, and she served as an academic advisor for the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to MSU, she worked as an admission counselor at the University of Iowa, where she earned her BA in Psychology and International Studies. Marissa’s passion for student success focuses on advocating for students while helping them develop their academic, personal, and professional goals. She believes students’ voices must be centered in their college experience.
A Midwest native, Marissa spends as much time as possible in the outdoors, hiking, camping, and backpacking with her wife, Mary.
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.