SP05 graduate Bethany Packard is working on her PhD in English at Vanderbilt University. She assures us the Nashville is more than just the home of country music. Her work is based on 16th and 17th century literature on child-rearing, development, and education. Some of the authors she is using for her research are Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Johnson. Bethany has had the opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in literature and composition. She has promised to keep in touch.
SP06 graduate Deena Atkinson has been living and teaching English in France for two years. Most recently, Deena taught a class on American politics and culture at the French Ministry of Finance. She is also assisting in starting up a film company that will release progressive documentaries onto the European market. Topics include oil wars, voter fraud, big pharma, etc. Deena hopes to return to the U.S. soon and perhaps make a documentary about the election process. And, she's in the process of starting her own photography website and preparing for a gallery show in Paris for next fall!
SP06 graduate Robbie Gross is now a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is studying U.S. intellectual history. he writes that he misses WU and is grateful for the education he received, and particularly in IPH.
SP07 graduate Andy Shupanitz is headed to Stanford Law for the combination JD-PhD program. (He received great funding!)
SP07 graduate Christina Skelley is the executive assistant to the VP of Operations at the Chicago Symphony. Chrissie is also playing viola in a community orchestra, loving Chicago, and working hard to secure visas for the entire orchestra for a tour of Japan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
SP07 graduate Emily Schultheis was an assistant dean in the WU School of Engineering in the year following her graduation. "I am about to move to Chicago to do the Masters of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at U Chicago. I'll be focusing on History. It's a one year thesis-based masters program. The plan is to go onto a PhD after that."
SP07 graduate Jessica Pryde is "still at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State. I just finished my first year of library school and am planning on becoming an academic librarian (who knows, I might end up back at Wash U someday!). I'm actually taking a course in the Digital Humanities next semester with the woman who wrote the book. I'm getting lots of library experience as a student assistant in cataloging/acquisitions and in the Library Dean's office. The bit of free time I have during the semester is usually dedicated to the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale."
SP07 graduate Lindsay Stanley is studying law at Loyola Chicago, and just found out that she will be an associate editor for the international law review. During this past summer she was in Berlin working for an NGO researching international business and public issues.
SP08 graduate Emma Eschenfeldt was accepted to the 10 month AmeriCorps service program in Maryland. She'll be traveling throughout the country on her service projects and will send exciting updates!
SP08 graduate James Duesterberg has been accepted to several PhD programs, but has decided to enroll this fall 2009 at the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature. Way to go, James!
SP08 graduate Ami Mehta will be attending The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, IRL for the next four years. She hopes to pursure an MD in Pediatrics! Attending school in Dubin will bring her closer to her other passions of playing the Irish Tenor Banjo and Irish Dance! Go Ami Go!!
The sames goes for you Austin and Sherief! We want an update!
