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Alumni
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
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 Thomas M. Callahan (FCRH '07) - Thomas' research interests center on the decreasingly pervasive nature of Communist Party ideology in the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin period. His work addresses questions of both the personalities that dominated the Soviet bureaucracy, as well as the civil society that began to develop in the 1970s. Thomas worked as a research assistant to Kremlinologist Stephen F. Cohen and also at the Council on Foreign Relations while in graduate school. He received his M.A. in Russian Studies from New York University in Spring 2010. He lives and works in Moscow. |
 Erin Rauch-Sasseen (FCRH '09) is currently working as the development/program assistant for "Bent On Learning", a nonprofit organization that brings yoga and meditation to New York City's public school children. Additionally, you can find Erin performing her original music at various venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn. While graduate school remains a possibility for the future, pursuing music is Erin's main focus at the moment. She currently lives on the Upper West Side. |
 Jennifer L. Hersch (FCLC '98; M.Phil. in Oriental Studies, Cambridge, 2006) currently manages the Cambridge MBA program for Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (UK). She is the co-founder of Cambridge Contemporary Dance, where she presently runs the company as well as dances, choreographs and produces shows. Jennifer served as the Artistic Director for Cambridge 800th Anniversary Gala. On 4-5 December 2009, at the Senate House (hosting for the first time an event of this kind), the University of Cambridge celebrated 800 years with an interdisciplinary event involving dance, music and visual art: "Light Matter: Celebrating 800 Years of Science Through Art." This was the first time such a collaborative project had taken place in Cambridge. The Gala marked the world premiere of 3 new musical compositions, 7 new dance pieces and 7 new visual art designs. "The idea was," as Jennifer told us, "to explore Isaac Newton's light experiments through performance as weare always looking atplaying with the boundaries between performance and text, science and art." |
Ryan Kelly (PCS '09) participated – in collaboration with Brennan Gerard – in the Whitney Independent Study Program in the Studio Art focus, a year-long post-graduate program hosted by the Whitney Museum and including about 30 artists, curators, and critical writers. The program focuses on theory and all participants attend seminars together. Ryan and Brennan are founders and co-directors of Moving Theater, a non-profitproduction company based in New York City.
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| Antonio Barrenechea (FCLC '98) received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale in 2004, and taught at Barnard. At present, he is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. He specializes in comparative literature of the Americas. His articles and reviews have appeared in Comparative Literature, Comparative American Studies and Symbiosis. |
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