Faculty Fellows Profiles

2025-2026 Faculty Fellows 

Caitlin DiMartino Caitlin Irene DiMartino - Art History

Caitlin Irene DiMartino is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History. A specialist in late medieval and early modern art, she is broadly interested in the relationship between devotional imagery, materiality, and shifting ideas of race and gender in Western Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Her current project investigates the periodization of premodern race and blackness through the phenomenon of European 'Black Madonnas' in Spain, France, and Italy. In her teaching, she seeks to broaden the geographical, material, and thematic perspectives of Renaissance and Baroque art, inviting students to explore the artistic output of early modern Europe as contingent on intercultural contact and exchange with Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and to rethink “what” and “where” counts as Renaissance and Baroque art history. As a Faculty Fellow, she is excited to continue this work by preparing for her upcoming Spring 2026 course, Unmaking Empire: The Art of Colonial Latin America. She looks forward to collaborating with her co-fellows as she designs new assignments, refines her class structure, and incorporates pedagogical practices that respond to the diverse needs, identities, and experiences students bring to the classroom. 

Richmond EmbeywaRichmond Embeywa - German

Richmond Embeywa is an Assistant Professor of German at Bowdoin College. As a scholar of German studies and applied linguistics, his research interests include language pedagogy, critical textbook analysis, sociolinguistics, migration studies, and Black German studies. During this fellowship, Richmond aims to develop pedagogical strategies that optimize inclusive and equitable learning environments and strengthen collaborative student-teacher relationships that can ultimately build a collegial and respectful classroom discourse community. He is interested in building cumulative assessment models that promote student growth by providing productive and clear accountability structures. As part of this work, Richmond is designing a new course—Language and Power: Critical Text(book) Analysis—which explores how texts present ideas and realities about the world and how these ideas ultimately shape our perceptions of reality. 

Emily MitamuraEmily Mitamura - Gender, Sexuality, Women's Studies

Emily Mitamura (they/she) is a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, Women's Studies at Bowdoin. I am a poet and scholar of gender, race, film, and empire. My research centers narrative afterlives of colonial and mass violence in Cambodian life and expressive culture. I teach at the intersection of Third World/women of color feminisms, feminist and political theory, and Asian/American cultural studies. I'm honored to be included in this cohort as I experiment with a class I have previously taught (Girlhood and Empire: Global Perspectives). I'm looking forward to learning from others in different fields, at different points in their careers, and from different embodied teaching positions, particularly strategizing around meaningful engagement in larger classes. 

Zihan QinZihan Qin - Asian Studies

Zihan Qin is a Lecturer in Chinese of Asian Studies, where she teaches courses in Chinese language and cultures. Her pedagogical approach emphasizes creating inclusive learning environments that support students with diverse linguistic backgrounds and learning goals. Her class integrates peer collaboration, cultural context, and reflective practiceDuring this fellowship, she hopes to develop evidence-based teaching strategies that support students at the crucial intermediate-to-advanced transition. she believes her teaching will also benefit enormously from interdisciplinary dialogue. 

Thais ScottThaïs Scott - Chemistry

Thaïs Scott is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and her research centers on understanding the interaction between light and metal catalysts in drug synthesis. She uses wave function-based quantum chemical methods to uncover the fundamental electronic structure of these complexes. She is developing an introductory computational chemistry course that will cover popular modeling approaches and their applications in current chemical research. During this fellowship, she is excited to implement strategies to engage students with diverse needs in a highly interdisciplinary field and help them develop a growth-oriented mind set. 

Brandon TateBrandon Tate - Chemistry and Environmental Studies

Brandon Tate is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies, specializing in catalysis and chemical sustainability. He teaches courses on environmental chemistry, green chemistry, and water security, and mentors student research on catalysts for renewable fuels and petrochemical alternatives. As a Faculty Fellow, he aims to reimagine assessment and course design to promote a growth mindset, strengthen information literacy, and build scientific communication skills. He is particularly interested in adapting evidence-based teaching strategies that equip students with the tools and agency to address complex interdisciplinary challenges at the intersections of chemistry, environmental science, and public policy. 

Shu-chin TsuiShu-chin Tsui - Asian and Cinema Studies

Shu-chin Tsui is a Professor of Asian and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College. Her teaching and research interests extend across interdisciplinary fields, such as film studies, cultural studies, and visual art studies. She is the author of Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema, Gendered Bodies: Toward A Women’s Visual Art in Contemporary China, and Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Sociocultural Landscape through Eco-cinema. She is also the author/editor of (En)gendering: Chinese Women’s Art in the Making and China Through the Camera Lens: A Multimedia Reader for Advanced Chinese. Her interest in the Faculty Fellows Program stems from a desire to develop and revise a newly created course, Asian American Cinema, by learning from colleagues and exploring current teaching/learning pedagogies. 

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