Spring 2023 Graduates

Congratulations to our new 2023 PhDs!  May:  Brooke Jespersen: “In Search of Tranquility: Migration and Older Puerto Rican Adults’ Quests for a Good Old Age”  Daniel Basil Hamilton: “Patients, Practice, and the Social Construction of Transgender among Adults”  August:  Yi Li “An Ethnographic Study of ‘The Eastern March of Tibetan Buddhism’ in Shenyang, Northeastern...

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Alumni News

Tim Barone (PhD 1997) is Director of the Medical Humanities Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.  David Henry Greentree (BA 2023) will be attending The Ohio State University College of Medicine next year.   Meghan Halley (PhD 2012) is President of the Board of...

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Undergraduate Student News

Congratulations to our undergraduate students on their accomplishments!   Intersections Spring 2023:  Gabrielle Arkema presented “Comparing Perceptions and Attitudes About Female and Male Circumcision in the United States”  Zhara Edwards presented “The Comorbidity of Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Disorder in Youth”  David Henry Greentree presented “Let this Information Sink In: Evaluating Foaming Disinfectant...

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Graduate Student News

  Congratulations to our graduate students on their accomplishments in the 2022-2023 academic year!  Annika Doneghy spent this past academic year as the 2022-2023 Frédéric Bastiat Fellow. The Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship is a “one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to graduate students attending master’s, juris doctoral programs in a variety of fields...

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Faculty News – Dr. Bridget Haas

  Professor Bridget Haas recently published her book Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System (Univ of CA press) April 2023. The publisher describes the book this way: “Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the mid-western United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian...

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Faculty News – Dr. Lee Hoffer

  Professor Lee Hoffer recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, “Understanding psylocibin (‘magic mushrooms’) in the context of the modern ‘psychedelic renaissance’,” received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Expanding Horizons Initiative (EHI).” The interdisciplinary grant involves faculty from across the College, the School...

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