September 2024 Noteworthy

September 11, 2024

Graduate student Damola Aluko (TSPPPA) completed an internship at FEMA’s Office of Resilience, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Division.

Babak Bahador (SMPA) was appointed director of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, BA ’10, (History) authored Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (Oxford University Press).

Rachel Emas (TSPPPA) co-authored the article “Teaching future faculty: Pedagogical training in public administration PhD programs in the US” in the Journal of Public Affairs Education.

Eric Grynaviski (Political Science) authored the book The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire (Cambridge University Press).

Alexa Alice Joubin (English, EALL, Theatre, WGSS) was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta.

Julia Kerson, MPP ’07, (Public Policy) BA ’05, (Political Science) was appointed deputy director of infrastructure by New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud (EALL) authored the book Songs in a Second Language: An Anthology of Korean American Literature (Forest Woods Media Productions).

Mitali Mirle, MA ’20, (Environmental Resource Policy) was appointed leading compliance administration manager at Doral Renewables LLC.

Maren Nicolaysen, MPA ’26, (TSPPPA) completed an internship with Wyoming FREE (Free, Reliable, and Ethical Elections).

Daniel Schwartz (History) was appointed chair of the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council and named a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Eric Stokan, PhD ’16, (TSPPPA) was named associate director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Stephanie Travis (Interior Architecture) wrote the book Interior Design is Not Decoration And Other Ideas: Explore the world of interior design all around you in 100 illustrated entries (Laurence King Publishing).

Vanessa Wills (Philosophy) authored the book Marx’s Ethical Vision (Oxford University Press).

Michael Worth (TSPPPA) published the second edition of his book Fundraising: Principles and Practice (Sage Publications).

The national YouthMappers program, featuring CCAS geography students and Ryan Engstrom (Geography), received the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science’s Innovation in GIScience Education Award.