Ashley Moore, Arts & Sciences SAGE Course
Ashley Moore received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from The Ohio State University and is an alumnus of the Newark campus. During her undergraduate career as a first-generation college student, Ashley served as an Academic Peer Coach and Lead Coach for the Buckeye Generation Learning Community and the Engineering Learning Community for three years until she graduated in 2020. As a student, Ashley was involved as a research assistant for the psychology department and served as one of the 150 sesquicentennial scholars for the university where she focused on developing leadership and engaging in service work. Ashley currently serves as Academic Success Coach for the Office of Retention and Student Success Initiatives and oversees the Engineering Learning Community, Buckeye Generation Learning Community, academic probation programs, and more. She is passionate and excited about working with students from diverse backgrounds and using her experience as a Newark campus alumnus to encourage students to be the best versions of themselves. In Ashley’s free time, she enjoys hiking, being outdoors, and adding to her plant collection- which is now over 100 different plants! You can reach Ashley at:
Email: moore.3541@osu.edu
Office: Warner Center 239
Phone: 740-755-7380
Amy Stottlemyer, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology
Dr. Stottlemyer is a triple alumna of The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Plant Population Ecology from the Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology department. As a plant population ecologist, she is interested in broad questions related to gene flow between and among populations. Other interests include agroecology (e.g., the effect of genetically modified crops on wild plant relatives), population genetics (e.g., investigating the genetic structure of wild vs. crop species), invasive species (e.g., impacts of invasive plants on species diversity), and conservation biology (e.g., managing natural areas for threatened species).
She has been teaching at OSU Newark since 2012. In addition to teaching the course Introduction to Environmental Science, she teaches Introductory Biology for non-major students, Energy Transfer & Development (cell biology) for students majoring in biology, and Human Physiology.
She approaches teaching from the perspective that anyone can learn science, and her mode of teaching is based on the principles of student-centered learning. Many studies have shown that students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process, and she is continually striving to employ active-learning methods to stimulate deep learning and lasting knowledge. Above all, she trys to make science fun, while maintaining a safe, inclusive environment in which students can learn about the natural world.
Victor Espinosa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor , Sociology
Dr. Espinosa’s research combines theoretical approaches and qualitative methodologies from sociology and the humanities to study the intersection of migration, arts, and culture from a transnational perspective. Before earning his doctoral degree in Sociology from Northwestern University, he conducted ethnographic work with Mexican families in both sending communities and in the United States for the Mexican Migration Project and worked as an ethnographer for projects that gave me the opportunity to explore the life and struggles of gay men, lesbians, and intravenous drug users (Medical College of Wisconsin) and poor Latinx families on welfare (University of California, Los Angeles). He also directed a project for the Heartland Alliance for Human Rights and Human Needs that helped empower immigrant grassroots organizations in Chicago. His research led to the publication of a policy report that hometown associations used to reach institutions that supported community development in Mexico.
His first book, El Dilema del retorno (El Colegio de Michoacán), analyzes the gender negotiations over the dilemma of settlement and return to study how both gender and community identity are embedded in cultural practices within transnational social contexts. His second book, Martín Ramírez: Framing his Life and Art (University of Texas Press), is a thick reconstruction of the singular yet paradigmatic trajectory of an undocumented Mexican migrant and self-taught artist who produced all his artwork inside a California psychiatric institution during the 1950s. Besides exploring the intersection of art and migration, he analyzed the politics of artist recognition and commodification of works produced by marginalized creators in order to illuminate how hierarchies and artistic singularity are reproduced in the contemporary art world.
His most recent project on representations of migrant suffering is based on ethnographic work conducted with undocumented migrants from Central America in transit through Mexico. Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan) is a collaborative project with OSU performance studies scholar Ana Elena Puga that combines historical, sociological analysis, and a theater/performance studies lens to understand how migrant suffering is framed and staged (by migrants, activists, artists, and advocates) in order to claim human rights for undocumented migrants.
In the curatorial field, his work on the intersection of arts and migration has given me the opportunity to participate in exhibitions and art catalogues that promote the artistic work produced by migrants, Latinx artists, and contemporary artists impacted by migrant suffering.