Past Fellows

Andrea Bailey teaches biology in the Natural Sciences Department. In 2020, as a Tang Fellow, she served as an instructor in The Workshop.

Alli Booth has taught in the Department of History and Social Science at Phillips Academy since 2018. During the 2022–2023 school year, she taught history as part of the Workshop 10 project.

Lilia Cai is a native of Shanghai who grew up in a family of teachers. She has a BA in international Chinese studies, an MS in curriculum development and instructional technology, and an EdD in leadership in schooling. In her 12 years at Andover, she has enjoyed developing and teaching all levels of classes but particularly high-level electives such as Chinatown and the Chinese American Immigrant Experience, Chinglish the Play, Screening Contemporary Chinese Cinema, and LGBTQ+ Literature and Media in China.

Cai was the 2018 Faculty Fellow for the Brace Center of Gender Studies and a two-time Tang Fellow. As a teacher-scholar, she has presented her research at various national conferences covering topics such as Asian American feminist school leadership, reclaiming voices of Asian women in a systemically white mindfulness movement, decolonizing global education through the lens of intersectional feminism, queer pedagogy in Chinese, affirmative action and Asian American students, etc. She is the (co)faculty advisor for AWE, ACSA, and PA Dems. She’s a certified yoga instructor, and in her free time, she runs, dances, meditates, sings karaoke, writes calligraphy, and plays guqin. The school year 2023–2024 marks multiple new beginnings for Cai. She moved into Clement House as a house counselor and is now an Andover parent.

Steph Curci is a dedicated student of Haitian history and literature. She maintains two sites on the subject: Mapping Haitian History and Mapping the Haitian Revolution. The latter was funded by the Tang Institute and grew out of a course she co-teaches with her history colleague, Christopher Jones.

Elena Dugan began teaching at Phillips Academy in 2021 and became a Tang Fellow in 2022, teaching religion and philosophy for The Workshop. Dugan has been fascinated by religion for over a decade, especially the long and tumultuous histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Teaching has been her passion from a young age, and she came to Andover because its classrooms are filled with students who are also friends, neighbors, and teammates.

Pat Farrell has been sharing his love of mathematics—and more recently, computer science—with young people for 40 years. Equally passionate about issues of social justice, he has served on Andover’s Access to Success and Antiracism task forces. He also taught for six summers in the (MS)2 program and four summers in the ACE program.

During his six-year term as dean of faculty, he was steadfast in his determination to increase faculty diversity. As one of the school’s math team coaches, he took the first team of Andover students to compete in the prestigious ARML competition. On the track, he has coached athletes in both the horizontal and vertical jumps, and, during his year as head coach, both the girls and boys teams took first place in the New England Championship meet. In 2019, Ferrell was a Tang Fellow, working on Enhancing STEM 100: Preparing Our Youngest Students for Success.

Jacques Hugon joined the Tang Institute in 2015 to focus on the development of homegrown technical solutions in support of Andover’s faculty, students, and external partners. Those solutions include EduCompass and Amplify.

EduCompass (www.educompass.net) is used by Phillips Academy to assess incoming students in math, music and world languages, and assist department chairs in placing students in these disciplines before they arrive on campus. EduCompass is also used by other programs on campus, such as (MS)2 and Summer Session for math placement, as well as several independent schools that have joined the platform to administer placement tests in math and world languages.

Amplify (amplify.educompass.net) started as a content repository for math questions used in placement tests and has evolved into a homework platform for math and chemistry, leveraging the ~10,000 questions the Andover faculty has created over the years. Amplify lets faculty curate and share math and chemistry problems with other teachers and gives Andover students a platform on which they can practice and hone their skills.

Prior to joining the Institute, Hugon served as an instructor in mathematics and computer science at Phillips Academy from 2001 to 2015.

Hugon began his career as a software engineer and manager in the high-tech industry, and was involved in entrepreneurial ventures in the fields of video game design, personal computer peripherals, and electronic TV program guides. Hugon holds AB, SM, and MBA degrees from Harvard University.

In 2017, as a Tang Fellow, Clara Isaza-Bishop began working on Purpose and Proficiency in Spanish Curricula. She completed the project in 2021.

Chris Jones has been a teacher of history at Phillips Academy since 1999 (with a six-year interim to pursue a PhD). He has taught many different histories, but his areas of focus are 19th-century U.S. history, African American history, and the U.S. Civil War era. He served as chair of the history department from 2014–2020. Additionally, he served in other administrative and institutional roles on the 2012 Access to Success Committee, the 2014 Strategic Planning Committee, and the 2019 Head of School Search Committee. In 2021, Jones worked as an instructor in The Workshop as part of his Tang Fellowship.

Catherine Kemp joined the Phillips Academy faculty in 2014. In 2019, she became a Tang Fellow, launching Redesigning BIO100: Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Model for Inquiry-Focused Learning. She is delighted to be able to combine so many of her interests into one magnificent job.

As a research scientist, Kemp has blended genetics and environmental studies over a career that includes stints at the National Institutes of Health and Oregon Health & Science University. Her interest in education led to multiple teaching and intern mentorship jobs, and she has designed outreach programs with high schools while doing graduate work in California. She has a lifelong passion for rowing. In addition to coaching at Andover, she is active with Dartmouth Alumni rowing (as both a coordinator and athlete) and is an active USRowing licensed referee.

Christine Marshall began working at Phillips Academy in 2016. At Andover, Marshall weaves work as a neuroscientist, educator, curriculum developer, and parent into a healthy, balanced life. She enjoys translating cognitive science research into practical learning tips for all types of students. In 2016, as a Tang Fellow, Marshall worked on the Scientific Learning project, which developed into a program called SYNAPSE. SYNAPSE is used today at Phillips Academy. Marshall has a PhD from Columbia University in neurobiology and behavior. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School and, in 2010, The Hastings Center scholar in residence.

Kate McQuade’s personal and professional interests revolve primarily around creative writing. She works with many student writers—in English 200 and creative nonfiction courses, on the “hiking and writing” team, and outside of class, guiding students interested in revising and publishing their work. She began her career at Phillips Academy as an instructor in English and in 2017 started work on a Hybrid Fiction Workshop for Young Women through her Tang Fellowship. McQuade is currently working on her third novel and enjoys spending free time snowshoeing, reading backlogged New Yorkers, and (especially) exploring campus with her three young children..

Elizabeth Monroe teaches history and social science at Phillips Academy. In 2021, Monroe became a Tang Fellow, working for three years on Exploring Opportunity: Economics, Big Data, and Social Inequality.

José Peralta began teaching in the biology department at Phillips Academy in 2018. As a Tang Fellow, he worked on Redesigning BIO100: Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Model for Inquiry-Focused Learning.

Tedd Parker has worked at Phillips Academy since 2012. In 2021, as a Tang Fellow, he began working on Exploring Opportunity: Economics, Big Data, and Social Inequality.