Our Team

Founding Director: Hilary Binda
Director of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College, Hilary Binda has a PhD in English, serves as Director of the Tufts Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and is a Senior Lecturer in Civic Studies. Her current research aims to support the development of educational access, equity, and decriminalization.
Assistant Director: Quinn Williamson
Research Coordinator: Jill Weinberg
Admissions Coordinator: Heather Curtis
Journal Coordinator: John Lurz
TUPIT Faculty Advisory Committee Members |
Hilary Binda, Civic Studies, Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, A&S, CHAIR |
TUPIT Faculty & Courses
Faculty join the program from across Tufts University, and offer a wide array of courses to the TUPIT students.
Faculty listed below by school, with Tufts courses taught in the college-in-prison program.
School of Arts and Sciences
- Liz Ammons and Modhumita Roy, Environmental Justice and World Literature
- Hilary Binda, Poetry and Visual Art; Gender and Literature; Writing Composition
- Gregory Crane, Comparative Epic
- Heather Curtis, Religion and Politics in American History
- María-Concepción Lagunas Davis, Spanish Language
- Kevin Dunn, The English Bible; Short Fiction
- Susan Ernst; Introduction to Biology
- Jennifer Eyl, From Jesus to Yeezus
- Daanika Gordon, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Kareem Khubchandani
- Erin Kelly, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Civic Studies
- Dana Leeman, Mentorship and the Adult Learner
- John Lurz, General View of English Literature
- Jamie Maguire
- Heather Nathans, Acting Shakespeare
- Stephan Pennington, History of African American Music
- Quinn Phillips, The Apology
- Kim Ruane, Quantitative Reasoning, Financial Math and Intro to Coding
- Suzy Russinoff, Ethics Bowl facilitation
- Jill Weinberg, Sociology of Law
- Daanika Gordon, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Roshad Meeks and Taylor Parrish, Environmental Justice and World Literature
- Conchita Davis, Spanish
- Amy Millay, Spanish
- Stephan Pennington, History of African American Music
- Ravi Shankar, Memoir Writing, Poetry
- Stephen Muscolino, English
- Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Introduction to Psychology
- Adaner Usmani, Introduction to Social Theory
Tisch College of Civic Life
School of Engineering
Tufts University School of Medicine
- Kim Dong-Breen, Nutrition Science
- Kirby Johnson, Introduction to Genetics
- Fernando Ona, Health and Human Rights
- Carolyn Rubin
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
- Eulogio Guzman, Latin American Art and Architecture
- Chantal Zakari, Graphic Arts
- Michael Smoot, Drawing
The Fletcher School
- Bridget Conley, International Law and Civil Society: Genocide
- Bridget Conley and Alex DeWaal, African Narratives
MyTERN Speakers Bureau
- Shakir Abdullah
- Abdurrahim Gray
- Joseph Irizarry
- Davon McNeil
TUPIT Student Coordinators
- BR Rose
- Meira Downie
- Emile Naccasha
- Lizzie Friedman
- Jack Steen
- Evan Zlotnick
Program Research & Assessment Committee
- Hilary Binda, Kim Dong, Daanika Gordon, Claudia Guetta, Ella Missan, Jill Weinberg