Michael Shinn, a performer, educator, arts advocate, and the cofounder of a music festival in Sonoma County, California, was named dean of music at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Read more
Allison Padilla-Goodman ’14 (Ph.D., Sociology), a veteran community organizer, educator, and activist against racism and anti-Semitism, was named the Southeast Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Read more
James Blair (Ph.D. ’16, Anthropology) is one of a handful of doctoral graduates to be named a 2017 Mellon/ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Public Fellow. Read more
Ira Dworkin
Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
The University of North Carolina Press (2017)
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Perry Halkitis (Ph.D. ’95, Educational Psychology), the newly appointed dean of Rutgers School of Public Health and the first openly gay man to hold the position, is accustomed to defying limits. Read more
In September, Wen Liu (Ph.D. ’17, Critical Psychology) will start a tenure-track faculty position in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Albany – SUNY. It’s a coveted opportunity for her to pursue her research on LGBTQ issues and to teach at another public institution that values diversity. Read more
LuAnn Walther (Ph.D. '78, English) is the quiet force behind the success of bestselling paperbacks by Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Oliver Sacks, Chinua Achebe, and Colson Whitehead, among others. Read more
Fake news, Twitter attacks, and viral videos are making life more difficult for corporate and political leaders. But it’s a golden age for experts in global crisis and reputation management like Kara Alaimo (Ph.D. ’15, Political Science). Read more
Kirsten Jensen (Ph.D. ’07, Art History), the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest chief curator of the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Read more
In an op-ed in the Baltimore Business Journal, Ahu Yildirmaz (Ph.D. ’97, Economics), co-head of the ADP Research Institute, suggests three steps for recruiting and retaining manufacturing talent. Read more