Mentorship

Shelley Brown

Mentorship

Alexis Shotwell

Looking for Support During Your Grad Studies?

Carleton prides itself on being a close-knit community that offers caring support to its students. Each year, seven faculty members receive a Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award for going above and beyond in assisting their students. This year, two professors from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences were chosen.

Winners of the 2021 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards accepted their awards virtually.

Meet Shelley Brown

Psychology Prof. Shelley Brown’s current research looks at understanding female offenders. She works out of the Gender and Crime Lab. Here are comments some of her award nominators made about her: “Shelley was a fantastic mentor who provided me with guidance when I needed it, freedom to be creative where appropriate, and constructive feedback that enabled me to produce the best research I possibly could.” “I have no doubt that I would not be where I am today had Shelley not been my mentor and supervisor.” “Students seem to find statistics courses much more stressful than other courses, so students undoubtedly appreciated Shelley’s encouragement, patience and efforts to make the course clear and fair.”

Meet Alexis Shotwell

Prof. Shotwell is with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and cross-appointed with the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy. Her award nominators said: “Whether you’re talking about challenges you have in graduate school, your research project, your personal life or just about your day, Prof. Shotwell is there to listen with open ears and with an open mind.” “She has organized and executed multiple weeks of ‘writing camp,’ whereby graduate students (and faculty), can meet virtually for periods of intensive writing. This activity is above and beyond her responsibilities as a professor at Carleton.” “This year of chaos and anxiety has made especially clear to me how much Alexis cares about graduate students.”