The 2022 Trachtenberg Alumni Award recipients were: Charita Libao Castro-Gonzalves, PhD ’07, (Distinguished Alumni Award); Rachel A. Breslin, PhD ’19, (Outstanding Recent Alumni Award); and graduate students Lorenzo Cinalli, Hannah Greenfader Demel, Erin Hill, Eric Palagonia and Sara Peluso (Capstone Achievement Award).
Political Science seniors Chris Affambi and Arzina Lakhani published letters to the editor in The Washington Post.
Norah Aljunadi, MA ’21, (Speech-Language Pathology); Alyssa Giegerich, MA ’18, (Speech-Language Pathology); and Jessica Rosenblatt, BA ’14, MA ’16, (Speech and Hearing Science, Music) were recognized by the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association as distinguished early career professionals.
Lauren Marks Alperstein, BA ‘05, (Political Science) was elected a circuit court judge in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County, Florida.
Dane Austin, BFA ’09, (Fine Arts) was chosen to House Beautiful’s Class of 2022 “Next Wave Designers.”
Museum Studies alumni Sarah Blad, MA ’20, Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, MA ’11, Erin Mast, MA ’03, and Karen Vidangos, MA ’17, authored chapters in the book Change is Required: Preparing for a Post-Pandemic Museum (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022).
Anthony Blake Clark (Music) was named interim chorus director for the Richmond Symphony Chorus and artistic director of Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City.
Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, MA ’77, (Painting) received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct a collaborative study in Poland of socially and politically informed art by contemporary Ukrainian artists.
Parker Calvert, BA ’08, (Economics) and Clayton Calvert, BA ’10, (Art History) launched the NYC Culture Club, an exhibition space offering opportunities for curators and artists to hold free-of-charge exhibitions.
Larry Cook, MFA ‘13, (Fine Arts) presented the exhibition “Tradewinds” on D.C.’s Go-Go music club culture at STABLE Arts.
Christina B. Gee (Psychology) appeared on the “Master’s in Psychology” podcast.
Sarah Goolishian, MA ’22, (New Media Photojournalism) had her photography featured in The Guardian’s coverage of Gallaudet University’s football team.
Trevor Jackson (History) published the book Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830 (Cambridge, Sept 2022).
Timothy Shenk (History) authored the book Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber, BA ’91, (Anthropology) published the book After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford University Press, 2022).
Peter R. Silverman, BA ’77, (Political Science) was recognized in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Tara Sinclair (Economics) was named deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics in the Office of Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She also won the Debra Gerald Founder’s Award at the 24th Federal Forecasters Conference.
Iwonka Swenson, BA ’98, (Literature) produced, directed and wrote an episode of America’s Hidden Stories titled “CIA Museum Declassified” on the Smithsonian Channel.
James Zarsadiaz, BA ’08, (American Studies, Political Science), wrote the book Resisting Change in Suburbia (University of California Press, 2022).