Singer/Professor To Be Lowell Senior Tutor

By HANNAH E. KENSER

Contributing Writer

Visiting Associate Professor of Russian and East European History and guitarist/singer for the rock band "Super For Carol" Marshall T. Poe will replace Gene McAfee as the Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House next year.

Poe said he does not yet have specific plans for his position as Senior Tutor, but, as an avid basketball player, he does plan for Lowell House to win the basketball intramurals.

"I really just want to help undergraduates with the process of being undergraduates," Poe said.

Current Senior Tutor Gene McAfee will be leaving Lowell House to join the staff of St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland as assistant minister. He said that Poe is a good match for the House.

"I'm delighted at what seems to me to be a very comfortable fit between Marshall's interests, abilities, accomplishments, skills and Lowell House's needs and goals," McAfee said.

Besides teaching Russian and East European History, Poe sings and plays the guitar with a band he named for his wife.

Next year, Poe said he has tentative plans to teach in his field. He said options include offering a freshman seminar on 15th-20th century travelers to Russia, supervising theses or teaching at the extension school.

Poe has a PhD in Russian History from the University of California at Berkley and has held two post-doctoral fellowships at the institute for advanced studies at Princeton and the institute for Russian studies at Columbia.

Cornell University Press also recently published Poe's book A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476-1748.

Poe said he applied for the Senior Tutor position largely because he wanted to become more involved with undergraduate life.

"College was the best four years of my life," Poe said. "Through this position I am able to get some sort of vicarious pleasure."