Faculty Masters
Reporting to the Senior Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Education, the Resident Faculty serve as positive and visible members of a residential college community. They collaborate with college staff to help plan and implement educational, academic, social and cultural programs while serving as a role model, advisor, and leader in the residential community. Find out more about each Resident Faculty member below.
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational & Psychological Studies
Email: s.evans4@miami.edu
Twitter: @evanssd
Scot Evans is the Faculty Master at Eaton Residential College. He received his Ph.D. in Community Research and Action at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He has a master¹s degree in Human Development Counseling also from Vanderbilt and a bachelor’s degree in Music Theory from Furman University. Dr. Evans is actively engaged in teaching and supervising students in the undergraduate major in Human and Social Development and the new master’s program in Community and Social Change.
Dr. Evans’ current academic research and interests include promoting the role of community-based human service organizations in the promotion of wellbeing, social change, and social justice. He is co-investigator on the Miami SPECs project with organizational partners in the Miami area. This three-year project is promoting strength-based practice, prevention, empowerment, and community change while researching the process of organizational transformation in these settings.
Dr. Evans spent his 20’s traveling the country playing music with a band called The Floating Men, and still records and performs live with this group. He met his wife Lisa while living in Nashville where they had their two children Hannah (9) and Keller (4). Lisa is a fifth-grade teacher at Riviera Day School in Coral Gables where Hannah and Keller both attend. Hannah is quite the talented artist and accomplished soccer player. Keller enjoys swimming and making a mess of the Eaton Master’s apartment.
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology
Contact e-mail: iskromne@bio.miami.edu
My name is Isaac Skromne and I am the Associate Faculty Master for Eaton Residential College. Originally from Mexico City, I have lived in the US for over 15 years, first in New York City, then Chicago and now Miami. While in graduate school at Columbia University I met my future wife Dina, a journalist. We have two active boys Benjamin (8) and Yehuda (6). We all enjoy interacting with Eaton residents, so feel free to stop us and chat if you see us.
Academically, I am interested in the developmental processes that transform a single fertilized cell-egg into a full organism. My lab researches the cellular decisions that make a neuron progenitor become part of the brain or part of the spinal cord. I teach Introductory Biology lab and Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Personally, I enjoy cultural activities such as going to the theater and movies. I play the guitar and enjoy cooking French and Mexican food.