Lisa Hummel ’05
The Alan R. Craig Endowed Scholarship Committee
- Mark and Ann Baiada
- Barbara Caldwell
- Michael Carter ’91
- David Craig
- Ian Craig
- Julia de la Torre
- Larry Leverett ’91
- Fred ’65 and Caroline Brunt Moriuchi ’66
- Anastasia Pozdniakova ’96
Ph.D. Student in Sociology, Stanford University
Lisa Hummel, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Stanford University, is currently working on a dissertation with a focus on identity and political ideology. “Specifically, I study the experiences of being a political minority,” Lisa said. “In the Bay Area I research how conservatives and Republicans navigate their politics in a blue state.”
Lisa’s work has been supported by Stanford’s Laboratory for the Study of American Values, which, according to its website, assists graduate students in conducting surveys to enhance research. Prior to graduate school, Lisa worked as a teacher. She also volunteers and fundraises for a local organization in East Palo Alto called Girls to Women, which provides resources, role models and support for girls of color as they grow up.
Lisa thanks MFS for its role in her personal and professional life: “At MFS I learned the importance of taking time for quiet reflection and the value of everyone coming to a consensus.”
My MPE Memory (2004): “I remember Dennis Kucinich winning the Mock Primary at MFS and actually coming to our school in person! It felt like such a big deal to actually have the winner make the trip from Ohio to visit us in New Jersey based on the results from a high school election.”