Housing & Residence Life is pleased to announce that Dr. Tina Post and Mark Temelko have been appointed the new Resident Deans of Renee Granville Grossman Residential Commons West beginning in the 2024-25 academic year.
Tina, Mark, and their children Arlo (15) and Phineas (13) have been part of the University of Chicago community since 2018. They relocated to Chicago from New Haven, Connecticut, following Tina’s graduation from the PhD program in African American studies at Yale University. Tina and Mark met doing MFAs in creative writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. They have lived in Hyde Park since their arrival in Chicago.
Tina is an assistant professor of English and theater and performance studies. Her work focuses on race, performance, visuality, and affect. Her first book, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism as well as the best book prize from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). She has also received fellowships from the Neubauer Collegium and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry in support of her movement-based creative work.
Tina is an avid crafter, and in her spare time can be found knitting, spinning, quilting, printing, sculpting, or in other ways making.
Mark is the director of operations and external relations at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at Chicago Booth. He leads communications, public relations, and external-facing programs and partnerships for the center, which is the hub for behavioral science at UChicago. Mark also helps oversee the center’s popular, public-facing behavioral science lab and discovery center in downtown Chicago, Mindworks: The Science of Thinking.
Mark’s loves include poetry, baseball, cooking, music, and movies.
As Resident Deans, Tina and Mark hope to create an environment that celebrates, honors, and inspires the singular collection of minds and hearts that make up a residential learning community—and support lifelong connections to the University, the city of Chicago, and the world of ideas.