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GallatinT oday Gallatin Home to Iranian Studies Initiative Introducing New Faculty / Voltaire’s Mahomet on Stage at Gallatin / Renowned Critic Harry Berger Teaching at Gallatin / John DeLucie: King of the Kitchen

Mahmud Javadipur, Persian Picnic, 1961. Courtesy Grey Art Gallery, New York University Fe at u re s to ry

Above: Interior of Chehel- Gallatin Is Home to New Sotoon Palace. Composite image created by Fahimeh Gooran. Below: Metamorphosis, Ardeshir Mohassess. Iranian Studies Initiative Copyright Mohassess Estate

YU Gallatin, with leadership academics as well as colleagues at Columbia from Gallatin Professor Ali University, City University of New York, the Mirsepassi and support from the New School and Princeton University. Kevorkian Center for Near East- ISI-NYU is bringing in a number of Nern Studies at NYU, launched the Iranian important speakers throughout the year, Studies Initiative (ISI-NYU) this fall to pro- including Reza Baraheni, the exiled novel- vide a new intellectual and academic space ist, poet, critic and former professor at the in New York City for the study of Iranian University of Tehran, who spoke on October history, society and culture. ISI-NYU finally 7 about monarchy, Islam and the Enlight- offers a central space where scholars and enment. The following evening, the art citizens, from both the NYU community and exhibition The Life and Art of Ardeshir Mohassess beyond, can openly exchange ideas. Given opened at the Gallatin Galleries; a two-day the repression of democracy movements in conference on the artist followed the exhibi- Iran, including the violent suppression of tion. Mohassess, an illustrator and one of the protests following the 2009 presidential the most influential artists in contemporary election, and Iran’s longstanding confronta- Iran, died in 2008 at the age of 70. The New tion with the international community over York Times referred to him as “a cult figure its nuclear program, Mirsepassi observes for artists and intellectuals in his country.” that “Iran is an increasingly important in- On October 21, Michael Fischer of MIT spoke ternational issue.” The founder and director about conducting ethnographic research in of the ISI-NYU, professor and former interim Iran and its diasporas. Minoo Moalem of by Iranian poets, novelists and scholars, dean at Gallatin, as well as the author of De- UC Berkeley will speak on December 2 about particularly those who have written in the mocracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Politi- Iranian studies and feminist studies in the past 30 years,” says Mirsepassi, adding that cal Change (NYU Press, 2010), Mirsepassi adds, context of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the current political situation in Iran has led “There is a vibrant and massive democratic its aftermath. to the silencing of many significant con- movement in Iran, and our hope is to create ISI-NYU plans a translation program temporary literary and scholarly voices. The a community of Iranian Studies scholars with the hope of publishing Persian texts institute’s Web site (www.isi-nyu.org) will and students here.” The initiative will also in English for a wide variety of disciplines. be developed into a space for the exchange of reach out to the broader Iranian community “English-speaking academics, and non- ideas through the publishing of papers and in the metropolitan area, including non- academics, are not exposed to writing other intellectual and artistic work.

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Gallatin Goes to India

n January last year, Professor Ritty Lukose inaugurated a travel course to India. For two weeks over the winter Ibreak, Lukose took a group of students to Bangalore, where she partnered with the Srishti School of Art, Design and Tech- nology. Ten Gallatin students studied the theme of culture, development and globalization along with ten students from the Srishti School. “They were meeting as peers,” says Lukose, “and it got them out of their bubble. The Indian students, who were not natives of Bangalore, were learn- ing about their own society as much as the New Yorkers were learning about it.” The group spent the first week in Bangalore, a city that has been remade through globalization. What began as a garrison fort in the medieval period is now a city known for its high-tech industry. In addition to various cultural activities, the students in the course split into three groups: one went to an American-style mall, another went to a traditional produce market, and a third group went to a market in the Brahmin part of town. Comparing notes, they got a sense of how the urban space is divided. The group also visited a pair of temple towns five hours from Bangalore, Belur and Halebid, learning about the way people are struggling over different visions of tourism and development. In the neighboring state of Kerala, the class visited an underdevel- oped area with a large tribal population that had experienced considerable strife when commodity prices fell. The students also looked at an NGO that has a plan for sustainable development based on the use of bamboo. “I wanted them to see that India is not just some exotic land,” says Lukose, “but to understand that culture is dynamic and contextual.”

The Chennakesava Temple in Belur, Karnataka, India. Photo: Melissa Daniel

New Scholars Group Focuses on the Americas

ast year, a new student honors group, lessons learned from the storm. They went to theme is “consumerism”—the linking of the Americas Scholars, was inaugu- the Lower Ninth Ward and saw just how little happiness, freedom and economic prosper- rated at Gallatin. The group is made up has been rebuilt. They spent an afternoon ity with the purchase and consumption of Lof motivated, high-achieving students with a making art projects with students at Martin goods. Over the January break, the group particular interest in the Americas, includ- Behrman Charter School in Algiers, Louisi- will travel to Brazil. “While consumption has ing the U.S., other parts of North America, ana, and were treated to a performance by long been taken for granted as constituting Central America, South America and the Delfeayo Marsalis and his band. During the the ‘good life’ in industrialized societies like Caribbean. The scholars’ theme last year was year, the Americas Scholars meet biweekly the U.S.,” says DaCosta, “Brazil is experienc- “the social production of natural disaster,” for readings, guest speakers, field trips and ing a relatively rapid economic expansion and they traveled to New Orleans to explore independent research as well as biweekly that is changing the way its citizens relate to it. To understand how the city is coping five discussions involving the entire group. consumption.” years after Hurricane Katrina, the group This year, according to Kimberly Da- visited with an urban planning expert who Costa, Gallatin’s Associate Dean of Students, spoke about how the city is responding to who leads the America’s Scholars, the group’s

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Gallatin Welcomes New Faculty

Fulbright-Hays and the National Science wrote, “The ability of some objects to be highly Foundation. After completing her Ph.D. in designed without signaling the fact of their design is geography at U.C. Berkeley, she was a Post- their allure, their interest, and their beauty.” doctoral Research Scholar with the Commit- tee on Global Thought at Columbia Univer- sity. At Columbia, she taught at the Institute for African Studies and co-organized the series The World and Africa for the Committee on Global Thought. Currently, she is revising her dissertation, “Doing the Dirty Work: The Cultural Politics of Garbage Collection in Da- kar, Senegal,” for publication, while launch- ing a new line of research into the politics of Senegalese hip hop in Dakar and the Senega- lese diaspora. Her general interests include African cities, youth studies, Islam, critical Valerie Forman development studies, feminist geography Ph.D. in Literature, Women’s Studies Nota- and urban political ecology. Mitchell Joachim tion, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fredericks is a longtime fan of the deep house M. Arch., Columbia University, 1997; M. Arch. 2000 dance music scene; she’s thrown dance parties as in Urban Design, Harvard University, 2002; Valerie Forman’s research and teaching far and wide as San Francisco and Dakar. Ph.D. in Architecture: Design and Computa- interests lie in the literature and econom- tion, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ics of 16th- and 17th-century Europe, drama, 2006 women writers, economic history, political Mitchell Joachim’s teaching and research theory and Marxist theory. She specializes interests lie in architecture, urban planning in Renaissance and 17th-century English and sustainable design. An architect and literature and culture, the 17th-century urban designer in New York City special- Atlantic World and 16th-century French izing in the theory and science of ecological literature. Before coming to Gallatin, For- design, he is the co-founder of Terreform man taught in the Department of English at ONE and Terrefuge, a nonprofit organization the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her first and philanthropic design collaborative that book, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics integrates ecological principles in the urban and the Early Modern English Stage (University of environment. His designs for transportation Pennsylvania Press, 2008), connects tragi- in the urban environment include stack- comic theater to the new economic practices able cars, cars made of airbags and designs developed to conduct long-distance trade for individual jetpacks. He was selected to between Europe, the East Indies and the be the Frank Gehry International Visiting Levant. Her second book project, which turns Chair of Architectural Design at the Univer- to trade and cultural relations in the Carib- Louise Harpman sity of Toronto in the spring of 2010, and he bean, is entitled “Developing New Worlds: M. Phil. in Social Anthropology, Cambridge has taught at Syracuse University, Parsons, Property, Freedom, and the Economics of University, 1988; Master of Architecture, the New School of Design, and Columbia Representation in Early Modern England Yale University, 1993 University, among other places. Joachim and the Caribbean.” Louise Harpman works and teaches in the has been an architect with Gehry Partners Forman has been dancing salsa, which she first fields of architecture, urban planning and and Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, and he learned in San Francisco, for over ten years. sustainable design. She served as Associ- had a research fellowship appointment with ate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Moshe Safdie and Associates in Somerville, the School of Architecture at the Univer- MA. Joachim was awarded a TED Fellowship sity of Texas at Austin from 2003 to 2008. at the TED 2010 Conference in Burbank, CA, Throughout her tenure, she was a Fellow of and in 2009, Rolling Stone magazine named the Harwell Hamilton Harris Professorship him one of its 100 People Who Are Changing in Architecture and served as the Direc- America. tor of the Professional Residency Program. “I’m interested in jetpacks for cities,” Joachim says. Harpman instituted DesignBuildTexas, a “Hopefully my baby daughter will one day be flying!” studio model for working with architecture students to build a freestanding, sustain- able structure; she also instituted a model for funded studios for community-based projects. From 1996 until 2003, she was Critic in Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture and Chair of the Admissions Committee. Since 1995, Harpman has been a partner and principal in the architectural practice Specht/Harpman. The firm’s work Rosalind Fredericks has received numerous awards and was Ph.D. in Geography with a focus on Devel- recently named one of Wallpaper magazine’s opment Studies, University of California, “top 50 up and coming firms from around Berkeley, 2009 the world.” Its design for zeroHouseT, a Rosalind Fredericks’s research and teach- self-sufficient, off-the-grid dwelling, has at- ing interests are centered on the political tracted a number of university and corporate Vasuki Nesiah economy of development, global urbanism partners and has been featured in many J.D., Harvard Law School, 1993; S.J.D., and postcolonial identities in Africa. Her publications, and the firm was named one of Harvard Law School, 2000 work is particularly focused on the changing New York City’s “top 100 architects” by New Vesuki Nesiah is a lawyer whose field of relevance of gender, youth and Islam in ur- York magazine. Specht/Harpman’s work can expertise is international law, with a par- ban politics and labor movements in Dakar be seen at www.spechtharpman.com. ticular expertise in law and policy related during Senegal’s neoliberal era. Fredericks’s Harpman has the largest collection of independently to human rights and humanitarianism. Her research has won major funding support patented drink-through coffee lids in America. current research is on the politics and his- from the Social Science Research Council, In a fall 2005 article in Cabinet magazine, she tory of transitional justice. After completing

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a doctorate in public international law at Harvard Law School, Nesiah spent a decade combining work in academia and legal practice. She has taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the International Global Law and Policy Workshop at Harvard Law School and the International Relations and the Gen- der and Sexualities concentration at Brown University, where she was Director of Inter- national Affairs. She worked in the field of post-conflict human rights as Head of the Gender Program and Senior Associate at the International Center for Transitional Justice. In addition to ICTJ’s global gender programs and vernacular literature to historical and Lissette Olivares, Post Doctoral Fellow related to prosecutions, truth commissions literary theory to the history of emotion, Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Conscious- and reparations, she also headed country gender and sexuality, spirituality and the ness, University of California, Santa Cruz work in South Africa, Ghana, the Philip- visual arts. Romig is currently working on a Lissette Olivares, a research fellow at Galla- pines, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. She has translation of Opus Caroli regis contra synodum tin, pursues interdisciplinary approaches to published in venues such as the Harvard (“King Charles’s Book Against the Synod”), an knowledge production. As an artist, theorist, Human Rights Journal and the Columbia Journal important early medieval treatise on images curator and storyteller, her work draws from of Gender and Law on topics including inter- and image worship, along with a companion a diverse range of methodological approach- national human rights, humanitarianism, volume for the teaching and research of this es in critical theory, performance theory, feminist theory, comparative law and post- text. He is also working on a book tentatively cultural studies, visual studies and postco- colonial studies. titled “The Emperor is Dead: Trauma and lonial studies. She is especially interested in Nesiah is a board game aficionado and regularly Cultural Change during the Carolingian the interrelationship between aesthetics and hosts board game salons. Time of Troubles,” which explores a col- politics and in analyzing the role of cultural lection of Latin texts from the mid-ninth resistance in periods of political repression. Andrew Romig century. Her dissertation, Repertoires of Literary Resis- Ph.D. in History, Brown University, 2008 A chess player, Romig is also looking to join a base- tance, explores literary performances dur- Andrew Romig is a historian of medieval ball league, having played baseball since high school. ing the 1980s in Chile. She graduated from culture with teaching and research interests the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study from the late antique and early medieval Program and is an independent curator and period to the Renaissance. Before coming critic specializing in contemporary art with to Gallatin, Romig served as lecturer in the an emphasis on performance and transme- History and Literature Program at Harvard dia. She has curated a number of exhibitions, University, where he was also assistant including Chile’s first Performance Bien- director of studies and co-chair of the com- nial in 2006, Grotesques at Toronto’s A Space mittee on instruction. He teaches courses on Gallery in 2008, and most recently Writing the history and literature of “kindness” from Resistance in Crisis and Collaboration at the UCSC the classic to the contemporary moment, Library. Currently, she is in the process of and the history of Joan of Arc in memory editing a volume about the Chilean perfor- and myth. He has also taught and written mance collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis. on subjects ranging from comparative Latin

Faculty Achievements and Grants

Myles Jackson, Gallatin professor as well as five years. Focusing on the language that the Dibner Family Professor of the History great American critics have used to engage and Philosophy of Science and Technology the racial domination at the center of Amer- at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute, received the ican history, American Prophecy explores the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt Fel- relationship of prophecy and race to Ameri- lowship, presented by the government of the can nationalism and democratic politics. Federal Republic of Germany, to conduct re- search there. Jackson will spend next sum- Ben Steinfeld is making his Broadway mer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied debut playing the role of President James Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Monroe in the play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jack- to work on the application of mathematical son at the Jacobs Theater. He originated the models to skilled labor practices. The award role off-Broadway at the Public Theater and is granted in recognition of a researcher’s at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. entire work to date, and it is awarded to The New Yorker called Steinfeld a “standout” academics whose work has had a significant in its recent review of the play. impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting- Stephen Duncombe is the co-founder, with edge research in the future. Steve Lambert, a political artist and faculty member at Boston’s School of the Museum George Shulman received the David Easton of Fine Arts, of the School for Creative Award from the Foundations of Political Activism. The Power and Democracy Fund Thought section of the American Political of the Open Society Foundation awarded Science Association for his most recent book, the School for Creative Activism a grant American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in Ameri- of $45,000 for curricular development and can Political Culture (University of Minnesota organizer training. Press, 2008). The award is granted to the best book in political theory published in the last

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On View at Gallatin Galleries

rtwork by Rebecca Yale, Chelsey Pinke and Adam Uhl, artists and 2010 graduates of Gallatin, were fAeatured in two lively summer exhi- bitions in the Gallatin Galleries, the school’s recently re-designed ground- floor gallery space. Photographs from Uhl’s series “Breakfast and Lunch,” por- traits of people who regularly come to a Greenwich Village senior center, were in the first show. The second show included Yale’s luminous color photographs, called “Natural Manhattan,” focused on the city’s parks, and on the intersection between nature and people, particularly when those “natural” spaces are man- made. The show also featured Pinke’s series of gestural black-and-white paper cut-outs of hands.

Above: Natural Manhattan, Rebecca Yale. Far left: Hands, Chelsey Pinke. Left: Breakfast and Lunch, Adam Uhl.

Gallatin Galleries Draw Attention to Ciudad Juarez

or ten days in September, the Gallatin Galleries hosted the exhibition Dispos- able: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women, Fwhich focused on violence against women in the border city. Since 1994, hundreds of women and young girls from Ciudad Juarez, on the border of El Paso, Texas, have been raped and murdered, and hundreds more are missing. The drug war has also escalated in the city, making it the murder capital of the world. Photo: Adam Uhl Curated by Keith Miller, a professor at Gallatin as well as an artist, filmmaker and In addition to the exhibition, on Septem- spring. A panel discussion following her per- curator of the Gallatin Galleries, Disposable ber 15, Yadira De La Riva (MA ’10) performed formance included the visual artists as well included the work of eight artists who have the one-woman play One Journey: Stitching as Miller, De La Riva and Professor Sharon explored the conditions in the city through Stories Across the Mexican “American” Border, Friedman, who has written about gendered various media, from photography to video based on her own experience growing up violence in the theater of war. Friedman to installation art. These included Gallatin on the border between El Paso, Texas, and called the artworks on view as well as De La students Hayden Dunham, Chris Nolan, Tali Ciudad Juarez and on the experiences of her Riva’s performance “acts of intervention” Weinberg and Amia Yokoyama as well as family and friends. A performance artist and that call our attention to the plight of the artists Peggy Adam, Miller, Lina Pallotta and playwright, De La Riva performed One Journey murdered and disappeared women of Juarez. Patricia Yossen. in Gallatin’s Master’s Thesis Showcase last

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Renowned Critic Harry Berger Teaching at Gallatin

enaissance scholar and cultural critic Harry Berger, Jr., one of the founding faculty members at U.C. Santa Cruz, is a visiting faculty member this semester at Gallatin, where hRe is co-teaching a course with Dean Susanne Wofford on Plato’s Dialogues. A highly acclaimed literary and cultural critic, Berger has written books and articles on Renaissance literature, Shake- speare, Rembrandt, Dutch portraiture and art history, among many other subjects. Berger also presented a series of public talks during the month of October that were organized by the Gallatin Dean’s Office in cooperation with the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Initiative at NYU. Characteristically, Berger lectured on three different topics: One talk, on “The Mercifixion of Shylock,” treated Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and included a response from Barry Edelstein, the producer of the current Broadway production of the play star- ring Al Pacino. In another, he discussed the surprising presence of caterpillars, flies and butterflies in Dutch 17th-century still life painting. The respondent was John Walsh, former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. (Berger is about to release a book called Caterpillage on this topic.) Berger also lectured on Vasari, the Italian Renaissance art critic whose Lives of the Artists provides crucial information on the personal stories of such art- ists as Michelangelo and Raphael. Patricia Rubin, herself an art historian of the Italian Renaissance and director of NYU’s Insti- tute of Fine Arts, was the respondent. Many of Berger’s students and faculty colleagues at Gallatin attended his talks. Photo: Dina Scoppettone

Gallatin and Swiss Embassy Team Up for 250th Anniversary Celebration

Nicholas Dungan NYU President John Sexton, left, and Nicholas Dungan. Photos: Enrique Cubillo

n September 23, Gallatin hosted a reading just the first sentence of his intro- and Britain, and ultimately, the first presi- highly publicized gala book-signing duction: “Albert Gallatin, born in Geneva dent of the Council of New York University. for Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Fa- and raised in the Swiss and French-speaking Gallatin was a politician until the Other (NYU Press), written by Nicholas Dungan, tradition, came to America in his youth and, later part of his life, and it was not until he political commentator and former president in a lifetime of public service to his adopted was 70 years old that he came to New York of the French-American Foundation. The country, contributed to the welfare and inde- and began a new career as a banker and event kicked off the Swiss Embassy’s Galla- pendence of the United States as fully as any an intellectual. He helped to establish the tin 250 Project, to commemorate the 250th other statesman of his age.” American Ethnological Society, became an anniversary of the year of Gallatin’s birth. The idea for the book arose, Dungan told expert in Native American ethnology and The project includes events in Washington, Gallatin Today, when he was walking in front linguistics, and served as president of the D.C., San Francisco and New York, as well of the White House in Washington, D.C., one New-York Historical Society. In addition, of as an NYU Gallatin Dean’s Roundtable with day and noticed the statue of Albert Gal- course, he helped to found New York Univer- Dungan on February 2. (His actual birthday latin. “He was among the European found- sity. “He wanted to provide an education for is January 29, and Gallatin students will be ing fathers,” says Dungan (whose daughter, the expanding middle class, not just to the throwing a giant birthday party to celebrate Isabelle Dungan, graduated from Gallatin in aristocracy,” says Dungan, adding, “He was it.) In addition to Gallatin Dean Susanne 2006), “and he was instrumental in the birth a lifelong learner, a self-starter, and I think Wofford, NYU’s president, John Sexton, and and growth of the United States.” Albert Gal- the concept of the Gallatin School would have Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss foreign latin was raised in Geneva but immigrated satisfied him immensely.” minister, all spoke at the event. In lieu of an to the United States to become a U.S. senator, extensive reading, Dungan offered a teaser, Secretary of the Treasury, Minister to France

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Photo: Debra L. Rothenberg His Heart on His Sleeves

ames Branson Skinner, known as Bran- politics, and which he took (in Florence) with latin is “The Globalization of Public Health son, wears several hats: he is a Gallatin George Shulman, as “one of the best classes and Societies.” junior, a musician, an organizer and a I’ve ever taken in my life.” In addition, Branson is behind an idea J social entrepreneur. His Ghana-based ven- Branson was the recipient of a Catherine called Tuition for Peace: “The concept is ture Of Rags is a fair-trade fashion coopera- B. Reynolds Scholarship for Social Entrepre- to create an ROTC program for the Peace tive designed to contribute to sustainable neurship last year, which has afforded him Corps or other volunteer organizations, to community development. And it makes cool connections to other motivated students as get college paid for in exchange for national clothes—hand-painted t-shirts, dresses and well as access to business resources for Of service, but not military service.” The idea pants that incorporate Ghanaian textiles. Rags. Branson founded Of Rags (www.ofrags. is in a fledgling stage, but there is a Web “Of Rags,” he says, “is the perfect combina- com) in September 2009, when he went to site, tuitionforpeace.org, and a plan to move tion of my interests.” Accra with NYU in Ghana for the fall semes- forward within the next year. “It is some- Raised in Washington, D.C., Branson had ter. He met the artist and clothing designer thing that I view as vital in terms of creating originally applied to NYU’s Stern School of Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne, who goes a society that considers the two-way ebb and Business because, he says, “I wanted to learn by his initials, RAAM. Even before he met flow of culture and economics, so we see how how to run a nonprofit like a business and RAAM, Branson had thought about creating actions in the U.S. affect other places.” make business more socially conscious.” But a fair-trade cooperative that would give back As for post-graduation plans, Branson, during a year off between high school and to the community. As it happens, there is an who has also released four CDs, sees possi- college, during which he attended la Univer- extensive seamstress industry in Ghana, but bilities in politics, media or on-the-ground sidad San Francisco de Quito in Quito, Ecua- not enough demand for its services. Branson organizing. But in the near future, he says, dor, where he studied medical anthropology and RAAM set up a small-scale production “I want to keep working on Of Rags. It’s my and theories of development, among other facility in the Buduburam Liberian Refugee baby and I want to see it grow up.” things, Branson became more interested in Camp, about 30 miles west of Accra, with interdisciplinary approaches to problems. He four sewing machines and two teams of five decided Gallatin was where he would rather people each. The idea is to bring the clothes be. “I love Gallatin,” he says. “I would not go made there to a larger market, beginning to school anywhere else.” The professors are with college campuses. Forty percent of the incredibly accessible, says Branson, and the profits of each sale goes toward public health classes are excellent. He points to “Machia- and education initiatives, two areas of inter- velli’s Florence,” which combined art and est for Branson, whose concentration at Gal-

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King of the Kitchen

John DeLucie (BA ’89), co-owner and executive chef of the West Village hot spot the Waverly Inn, and, more recently, of The Lion, learned early on that good food was a sure route to popularity.

had a lot of friends because of my ber of sales jobs, played music and started mom’s cooking,” says DeLucie, who cooking on his own. He was working as an grew up on Long Island. “My friends executive recruiter when he decided to take “still Italk about my mother’s pasta fagioli.” a 12-week cooking class at the New School, But The Waverly Inn, the restaurant he the first and only cooking class he’s ever opened in 2007, is another level of popularity taken. “When I had all these sales jobs,” he altogether. DeLucie’s partner in the venture says, “I was not really fulfilled, so I took this is Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and many class and found out that I had an aptitude to of the restaurant’s clientele have appeared really do this.” in the magazine’s pages; it has become As The Hunger recounts, his first job— known as much for its celebrity diners as for chopping 40 pounds of onions for Dean & its top-shelf comfort food (most famously, DeLuca—was less than swanky. But from the $55 mac and cheese with shaved black there, he moved to a number of increasingly truffles). upscale restaurants until he and two busi- DeLucie wrote about his indirect path ness partners, along with Carter, bought Ye to becoming a chef and restaurant owner in Olde Waverly Inn and turned it into the Wa- his memoir, The Hunger: A Memoir of an Acci- verly Inn. Last spring, he moved on to open dental Chef, published last year by HarperCol- a second restaurant in the West Village, lins. Shortly after the book was published, The Lion. The menu ranges from familiar to he also spoke about his career to an intimate fancy, with a burger special blend to 28-day gathering of Gallatin students during a aged côte de bouef for two. DeLucie, who is Dean’s Roundtable last spring. When he primarily at The Lion now, says he wanted graduated from Gallatin, he told Gallatin to create something “special and different, Today, his plan was “to replace Jimmy Page with a nostalgic, comfortable feel.” in Led Zeppelin.” Instead, he held a num-

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Noah Kaplan and Rosalie Kaplan Gallatin Celebrates the Alumni Arts & Society Program

The Gallatin School created an initiative last spring for alumni interested in the arts, the Alumni Arts & Society program. The kick-off celebration was held in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts in May, with dance, musical and multi-media performances and an exhibition in the Gallatin Galleries.

lumni Arts & Society, which is adminis- photographer Dana Buckley (MA ’07), painter tered by Gallatin’s Office of Communica- Barbara Gray (MA ’96), photographer Jesse Dit- tions and Alumni Relations, is directed mar (BA ’08) and photographer and video artist bAy longtime Gallatin Professor Laurin Raiken, James Perry Walker (MA ’90). The performances who is also a founding member of the Gallatin in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Perform- School of Individualized Study. At the celebra- ing Arts included excerpts from Aquatic Informa- tion in May, Dean Susanne Wofford announced tion, a multi-media piece by Wendy Luck (MA the formation of the Laurin Raiken Fellowship ’03); an excerpt from Member of the Club, a docu- Fund, which will support M.A. students who mentary film by Phoebe Ferguson (MA ’10); and want to attend Gallatin. (If you are interested in a personalized rendition of You’ve Got a Friend by contributing to the fund, please go to www.nyu. alum and Gallatin professor Michael Dinwiddie edu/giving.) The program includes discussions, (BA ’80), who accompanied himself on the piano performances, art exhibitions and, ultimately, a and asked the audience to join in on the chorus. Web-based Alumni in the Arts Directory, which In addition, Ellen Cornfield (MA ’00) performed will showcase the accomplishments of Gallatin Title Tabled, a duet for a table and a dancer; and Alumni Arts & Society Director Laurin Raiken alumni in the arts. vocalist Rosalie Kaplan (BA ’09) and the classical A group of talented alumni displayed their quartet Dollshot performed several hauntingly accomplishments in tribute to Raiken at the beautiful pieces, including The Trees by Wes Mat- celebratory launch of the program. Visual art- thews, Galathea by Arnold Schoenberg, and Lune ists showed their work in the Gallatin Galler- d’Avril by Francis Poulenc. ies, including photographer Jessica Lee (BA ’09),

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Q & A with Ricardo Khan

he acclaimed co-founder We were exploring the emo- GT: Can you talk about the eration was about going in and and artistic director of the tional aftermath of this shifting Crossroads Theatre, which you being able to present positive Crossroads Theatre Com- ground. Out of our lab in Johan- founded in 1978? and honest images of black life, Tpany in New Brunswick, N.J., nesburg came a story by one of RK: Crossroads was part of the history and culture that would Ricardo Khan was in residence our writers, Sibusiso Mamba, second generation of black the- be of value. at Gallatin from September 16 that led to this play. aters. The first generation was to September 21, rehearsing the about breaking the doors open so play Train to 2010, in the Jerry H. GT: What happens in the play? we could go in. The second gen- Labowitz Theatre for the Per- RK: Two laborers are underneath forming Arts. The play follows the streets of Johannesburg two laborers digging the under- digging a tunnel that will make ground railway in Johannesburg way for the first underground as the city prepares for the World train in Johannesburg. As they Cup. It was written by Sibusiso dig this tunnel, it is also elec- Mamba and developed at the tion night in the U.S., and they’re World Theatre Lab in Johannes- listening to the election results. burg, an international writ- One of them sees this as the ers’ collective founded by Khan future of the world; the other and based in Johannesburg, one, who voted for Mandela and London and New York. Under was hopeful then, is now disil- Khan’s direction, Crossroads, lusioned, so between them there an African-American theater is this friction that comes from company founded in 1978, won idealism versus reality. As they the 1999 Tony Award for Out- dig, they hear this rumbling, and standing Regional Theater. He is it’s the train coming. They end a Director/Writer-in-Residence up on the train, moving toward at the Lincoln Center Institute in the World Cup. So what does it New York and a former co-chair feel like to be moving toward of the National Endowment for a future you’re not sure you’re the Arts’ theater advisory panel. ready for? In October, the Albert Gallatin Scholars went to see the produc- GT: What is the benefit, to the tion of the play at the Crossroads viewers and to the cast, of hav- Theatre. ing open rehearsals of the play? RK: Some of the students [the Gallatin Today: How was Train to Albert Gallatin Scholars] are go- 2010 developed? ing to South Africa in January, Ricardo Khan: It’s something and this gives them a contextual that we’ve been developing for understanding. In South Africa, five years at the World Theatre the artist’s view of the world has Lab, the international writ- been significant in the history of ers collective I started. In 2006, the anti-apartheid movement— Katrina had just happened, the the artist as revolutionary, the bombings in the London under- artist as mirror to a society. I ground had happened, and we think young people are hungry were within ten years of South and eager to be part of a discus- A scene from Train to 2010. Africa becoming a free country. sion larger than themselves.

Voltaire’s Mahomet on Stage at Gallatin

hristopher Cartmill, Gallatin pro- television in such shows as Law & Order and fessor and playwright, presented in films, including Trooper (2010). a concert reading on October 15 of With the ongoing furor over the pro- CVoltaire’s play Mahomet, which has stirred posed Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan, controversy since its debut in Paris in 1742. Cartmill (who is currently teaching “Philos- Cartmill edited and directed the play, weav- ophes and Follies: Theater in the Age of En- ing into the performance Voltaire’s own lightenment”) brought the play to Gallatin correspondence about the work as well as professor Sinan Antoon, who is teaching a accounts of the riots that accompanied a class on the Qur’an during the fall semester, 2005 French production of the play. Mahomet to discuss the play and its contemporary has been criticized by some as an attack on resonances. The concert reading of the play the founder of Islam, and by others as a sat- was followed by a panel discussion with ire of organized religion as a whole. When members of the cast as well as Cartmill, An- it debuted in 1742, the Turkish ambassador toon and Gallatin professor Kristin Horton, lodged a formal condemnation of Voltaire artistic director of the Gallatin Arts Festi- with Louis XV, but European religious lead- val, who directed the Gallatin production of ers also wanted it banned. the play 1001, by Jason Grote, in November. The cast of Mahomet included Gallatin The play is a reinvention of 1001 Nights, com- students as well as professional actors, in- monly known as the Arabian Nights. cluding Amir Darvish, who has appeared on

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Students In Print

The Literacy Review, which is funded by the NYU Office of Civic Engagement as well as a dona- tion from a Gallatin alumna, is an annual anthology edited and designed by Gallatin students through the Writing Program’s Literacy Project. It collects the best writing by adults in Basic Education, GED, and ESOL class- es throughout New York City. The most recent volume includes 74 pieces of writing by students who emigrated from 50 different countries.

A Gift is a collection of the best writing of the past two years from the Advanced Writing Class at the University Settle- Mosaic is an annual journal of The Journal of Global Affairs is ment Society, which is part of visual art and writing produced a student-run online and print the Writing Program’s Literacy by the Albert Gallatin Scholars publication that provides a forum Project at Gallatin. Gallatin stu- and based on the theme that the for NYU students to publish articles dents served as student-teachers scholars are studying. In 2009- and essays on global affairs. The for the class and copy-edited and 2010, the journal explored the most recent issue contained articles designed the book. theme “The Creation and Main- on South America, the Middle East, tenance of the Nation-State” fo- Africa, America and Europe as well The Gallatin Review is an an- cusing on Turkey and including as an article on the globalization of nual journal of portraits, photo- a 12-day trip the Scholars took food. In addition to serious analyti- graphs, drawing, poetry, fiction to Turkey in January. Entries cal articles on topics ranging from and creative nonfiction by Galla- included an essay on tourism, religion in Latin America to ethnic tin undergraduates, which are an article called “The Islamist clashes in the Côte d’Ivoire, the selected, designed and edited by Foundation of Turkish Political journal contains a photo essay on a team of Gallatin students. The Secularism,” a cartoon (Turkey the Western U.S. inspired by photog- most recent issue was the 25th Toons) and “Poems for Turkey,” rapher Stephen Shore, among other volume of the Gallatin Review. among many other pieces. pieces.

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Student Awards Presented at Graduation

small, select group studies as well as horror/ the sense of community among Gallatin’s of accomplished and monster studies into her students. Kleiman, who currently serves as dedicated students concentration, which was Gallatin’s Writing Program Director, orga- Awere ch osen by the faculty “The Philosophy of the Ab- nized the new Great World Texts Project. and recognized for their normal.” Her talk at the Se- contributions to Gallatin nior Symposium was titled Emma O. Sartwell and Cornelius Jones and NYU at the graduation “Of Monsters and Men.” received the Léo Bronstein Homage Award, ceremony in the spring: presented to a student whose work follows in Magogodi Makhene was the spirit of this great scholar of the history Jeongki Lim (right) was the Master of Arts Degree of ideas through art. Sartwell’s concentra- the School Banner Bearer, Representative. A Reyn- tion was “Towards a Subractive Art Practice,” leading the processional olds Scholar and a Jack Kent which tracks her journey from a desire to during the Commencement Cooke Graduate Scholar, add to the world towards attempts to relieve Exercises. President of the Makhene co-founded the it of some of its clutter. Jones has created Gallatin Student Council, he Zenzele Circle, a group that performance pieces rooted in African Ameri- started Just Is, an umbrella helps build Africa’s “miss- can culture, black gay male identity and HIV/ organization for human rights groups on ing middle” by linking start-up enterprises AIDS. campus, and Human Rights Life, a Web- in sub-Saharan Africa with global capital; based campaign to foster everyday forms of she also co-founded the Society for African Caroline Ross received the undergradu- human rights activism. Innovation. ate Alumnae Club Key Pin Award, and for the first time in 2010, Gallatin presented a Katherine Fritz received the Richard J. Kop- Zoe C. Abram was the Student Speaker, graduate Alumnae Club Key Pin Award, to penaal Award for Distinguished Interdis- delivering the student address at the New Martha Diaz. Ross, who studied economic ciplinary Study. Fritz’s concentration was in York University Commencement Exercises. theory, education theory and theories about environmental policy, political theory and Her concentration was “Agriculture and incarceration in America, founded the China studies. A Reynolds Scholar, a Udall Community Food Systems.” She was a Malcolm X Debate Program at Rikers Island Foundation Scholar, not to mention an ac- member of the Citizens Network of the UN prison while at Gallatin. A Reynolds Fel- complished fiddler, she focused on climate Commission on Sustainable Development, low, Diaz developed the Hip-Hop Education change and social justice in China and in working as a Program Assistant for the NYU Center for Research, Evaluation and Training other parts of the world, attending the cli- Sustainability Task Force. in partnership with NYU’s Metro Center for mate talks in Copenhagen last December. Urban Education. Molly Kleiman and Brad Powell received Emma Kaywin was the Bachelor of Arts the Special Service Award, given by the Degree Representative. Kaywin, who helped faculty and dean in recognition of outstand- organize the Senior Symposium last year, ing service to the Gallatin School and New integrated continental philosophy, psycho- York University. Powell worked tirelessly analysis, literature, sexuality and gender to improve the student council, enhancing

Newington-Cropsey Fellows Announced

Four Gallatin students—Andrew J. Marotta, Nicholas Morgan, Mir- press truth–through performance, language or image. She is interested in exploring iam Tobin and Desiree Mitton—have received Newington-Cropsey whether we understand the “self” and the Fellowships this year. The fellowships provide opportunities for “other” through the arts, or whether, as she emerging scholars and artists to participate in seminars, study trips puts it “we are condemned to use recycled and forums where they can present and develop their work and metaphors that do not capture the whole truth.” build connections with other artists and scholars. The fellowship also includes weekly access to the library at the Newington-Cropsey Undergraduate Nicholas Morgan’s con- Academy of Arts in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. centration is centered around art history, philosophy and literature, including courses on Dante, Shakespeare, the history of criti- After studying Dante in Florence, under- and physical theater. Her thesis project is an cism and medieval religious writing. He is graduate Andrew Marotta began working adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in researching the historical development of on an epic poem, called The Sorrowful, in terza which she is rewriting the story, using the aesthetics alongside literary criticism, the tima, which will be 33 cantos when com- philosophical ideals of Taoism and a tradi- place of ‘beauty’ in medieval art and the rela- pleted. Marotta also worked with filmmaker tional fairytale structure, as an anti-Taoist tion of classical aesthetics to the increas- Brandon Knopp while in Florence to make a fable to highlight the angst and despair ingly ‘modern’ art of the past centuries. In short documentary about the city and Dante of the sisters’ domestic situation. Tobin’s addition to his studies at Gallatin, he has that blended poetry, visual art and music. directing style is influenced by the physical worked with various contemporary artists, When Marotta completes The Sorrowful, the styles of Brecht, Beckett, Greek drama and including Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic two intend to make a full-length film with commedia dell’arte. and Robert Wilson. original music based on the witing of an epic poem in Dante’s terza rima. Undergraduate Desiree Mitton is studying art history, comparative literature, theater Graduate student Miriam Tobin is study- and French, and her concentration focuses ing directing, the adaptation of the classics on the various ways individuals seek to ex-

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Director Scott Elliott Speaks with Gallatin Students and Young Alumni

cott Elliott (BA ’93), founder that thirst for knowledge. He and artistic director of has developed and produced a The New Group, the Tony number of well-received plays SAward-winning New York- at the New Group, including based theater company, spoke David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, Wallace with members of the Gallatin Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon and community at an engaging Trevor Griffith’s Comedians. Elliott Dean’s Roundtable on October produced Avenue Q, which won 13. Gallatin Dean’s Roundtables three Tony Awards for Best Book, give students an unprecedented Best Score and Best Musical, and opportunity to speak with dis- he directed A Map of the World, tinguished alumni, parents and the film starring Sigourney friends of Gallatin from various Weaver and Julianne Moore. He fields and disciplines. Elliott is currently writing a screenplay was already working as an actor of Philip Roth’s novel American when he returned to Gallatin Pastoral, which he will direct for to develop as a director, and he Lakeshore Entertainment.

Photo: Debra L. Rothenberg attributes his success in part to

Alumni Notes

wrote and directed the play Black of a new trilogy based on a con- ent; her solo show Autobiography 1980s Flamingos. He gave a staged cept by the Duchess of Northum- of A Year was on view at the A.I.R. reading of the play on October 29 berland. Set in 1790s England, Gallery in New York. Her ongo- Jennifer Clement (BA ’82), the at A.N.M.T. in Hollywood under this gothic, supernatural thriller ing video-performance project, current president of PEN Mexico, the aegis of the Dramatists Guild weaves together a haunting love Self-Help TV, has been screened in was chosen as the Sandburg- Friday Night Footlights West story with the lore of poisonous New York, Philadelphia, Ver- Auden-Stein Poet-in-Residence series. plants. mont, New Mexico and Miami. at Olivet College for 2011. She was also included in the new Nicole Adelman (BA ’97) per- Victoria Kereszi (MA ’03) is a Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers formed in Skeleton Stories at the photographer, filmmaker, cura- and Their Work. 1990s Theatre of Note in Los Angeles in tor and media educator living in October. Troy, New York. Her video and Jay Goldberg (BA ’82) is the own- Erica-Lynn Huberty (BA ‘91) is photo portraiture explores the er of Bergino Baseball Clubhouse the author of Dog Boy and Other Jordan Eagles (BA ’99) is an artist ways women who live on the in Manhattan, which recently Harrowing Tales (iUniverse), a col- whose work is part of a group margins of society take control held a sold out TV viewing party lection of stories in the Gothic show in October celebrating the of their own representation. for Ken Burns’s new documen- tradition published in May. Krause Gallery, which has opened Her current portrait project tary Baseball: The Tenth Inning. For a new space on New York’s Lower documents elderly women living more information, visit: http:// Lorena Rodas-Ramirez (MA East Side. Eagles will have a their lives against the grain. She www.bergino.com. ’94) is a teacher at the Ethical solo exhibition at the gallery in co-curated a Women Filmmak- Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) March. A solo show of his work ers Night with Lili White at New Yvette Heyliger (BA ’83, MA ’87) in the Bronx. This fall, she is opens in November at the David York’s Anthology Film Archives is the author of What Would teaching three senior classes, in- Weinberg Gallery in Chicago. in October. Jesus Do?, a play with music cluding Spanish, Latin American about family, church, sex and Literature and a course called Jean Sung (BA ’04) is the coordi- HIV that has has received eight “Heritage Speakers.” nator of Day One’s Youth Voices AUDELCO (Audience Develop- 2000s Network, which partners with ment Committee, recognizing Peter Facinelli (Non-grad ’96) New York City youth to end dat- excellence in black theater). once again starred as Dr. Edward Daniela Mendelsohn (BA ’00) ing abuse and domestic violence Heyliger, whose daughter is Cullen in the Twilight Saga’s lat- is the founder of ArtWorks: through community educa- Gallatin senior Faith Heyliger, is est film: Breaking Dawn. Current- The Naomi Cohain Founda- tion, supportive services, legal a mentor to Gallatin sophomore ly, Facinelli is in production with tion, which provides children advocacy and leadership develop- Desiree Mitton. a film he wrote called Loosies. and young adults suffering ment. Jean received her M.F.A. in from chronic illnesses access poetry from the Rutgers-Newark Joyce Gold (MA ’88), an expert Emma McLaughlin (BA ’96) & to creative and performing Creative Writing Program. She and educator on New York City Nicola Kraus (BA ’95) are the au- art programs. ArtWorks offi- recently had poems published history, has given walking thors of The Nanny Returns (Atria), cially launched its “art carts,” in Philadelphia Stories, Salome tours of Manhattan neighbor- their widely publicized sequel to mobile carts designed to store Magazine, Cha: An Asian Literary hoods for more than 25 years. the New York Times best-seller The and transport art materials for Journal, Contrary Magazine and 322 The Joyce Gold History Tours Nanny Diaries. The Nanny Returns children, at the Hackensack Uni- Review. She was also published weave together facts, stories and picks up 10 years after The Nanny versity Medical Center in May. in the Gallatin Review at New personalities to bring New York Diaries ended, with Nan married The program, which is supported York University, where she was neighborhoods to life and con- and living in Brooklyn. by alumna Elana Sohn (BA ’95), awarded the Herbert J. Rubin nect the past to the present benefits children going through Award for Poetry. Maryrose Wood (BA ’96) is the treatment. Julius Galacki (MA ’89) gradu- author of The Poison Diaries, pub- Tommy Wallach (BA ’05) recently ated with an MFA from the Yale lished in March by Harper Col- Damali Abrams (BA ’01), is a received his MA in Journalism School of Drama in 1998 and lins. The book marks the debut 2009-10 A.I.R. fellowship recipi- from Stanford University. His

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song/video was recognized by the Gallatin Review award for best Activia Brand. This past summer, the Citizen Schools’ after school the YouTube Play/Guggenheim poem, and was editor in chief of she traveled extensively through program, and he’ll be teaching contest, which selected 125 the Literacy Review 7, has recently Japan, Hong Kong, the Philip- 7th graders a supplemental cur- videos out of 23,000 submitted. been published in Underwater New pines and China. riculum in English & Language Twenty videos will be chosen York. The published poem was Arts while working with them to from this group by a panel of part of a series of collaborative Cameron Farrell (BA ’10), who develop college and career readi- judges, including Laurie Ander- works called “Torch Songs.” studied philosophy and media ness and coordinating “appren- son, Takashi Murakami, Darren studies at Gallatin, was hired as ticeships” for the students by Aranofsky and Animal Collec- John Dietrich (MA ’09) wrote the a producer for Young & Rubicam, recruiting volunteer teachers. tive, to be part of an exhibition book and lyrics for the musical the advertising agency. at the Guggenheim. His video is Things as They Are, based on the Hilary Vreeland (BA ’10) founded currently showing at kiosks in life of documentary photogra- Dana Hamilton (BA ’10), who Hilary Vreeland Holistic Health all five Guggenheim Museums pher Dorothea Lange. The show studied writing and nutrition at in January 2010. She works with around the world. In addition, was one of five nominees for the Gallatin, was recently hired as individuals and groups, coach- he has a record deal with Decca 2009 Fred Ebb Award, and it was an editorial assistant at De- ing them around life goals and Records. one of 12 shows selected out of Fiore and Company. She plans to the nutritional lifestyle that will more than 400 entries for the travel to Kenya this winter. support them in achieving those Heather Arnson (MA ’06) par- 2010 New York Musical Theatre goals. She has incorporated her ticipated in the From the Hip Festival. Jade Hawk (BA ’10), associate Reiki energy healing practice Festival at the Wings Theatre in artistic director at Fabrefaction as well as studies of spirituality Greenwich Village in May. Morgan Silver-Greenberg (BA Theatre Company, completed and healing into her coaching ’09), an installation artist who Merchant of Venice with the Public practice. Keith B. Kirk (MA ’07) achieved works for a company called No Theater and Shakespeare in the candidacy in the Department Mas that makes sports-themed Park. In addition, the theater of Interdisciplinary Theatre and clothing, was recently featured company he co-founded just Drama at Northwestern Univer- in a July New York Times article, built its own theater complex in sity in June and was awarded a “Hot and Cold Running Mu- Atlanta, which officially opened Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from sic.” The article, which labeled in September with The 25th Annual the University of Houston Col- Silver-Greenberg a “young math Putnam County Spelling Bee. Jade lege of Arts and Social Sciences. genius,” goes on to identify performed as Chip. The fellowship includes teaching Bushwick, Brooklyn, as New a graduate level course on the York’s newest Bohemia. Rooney Mara (BA ’10) is starring influences of Greek Tragedy in alongside Daniel Craig in The Girl African American Drama dur- S. Kwesi Cameron (MA ’10), with the Dragon Tattoo. ing the fall 2010 semester and who studied dramatic writ- a teaching fellowship for the ing and journalism at Gallatin, Bradley Powell (BA ’10) is cur- 2011-2012 academic year. He also recently completed a screenplay rently working with Citizen recently presented a three-day for a short film through Primary Schools through AmeriCorps, seminar at the University of Stages Theater School (ESPA). which is a national non-profit Notre Dame on diversity in per- whose mission is to close the formance and casting practices. Victoria Fabiano (BA ’10), who achievement gap in education. studied consumer psychology at For the next two years, he’ll be Allyson Paty (BA ’08), who won Gallatin, has recently begun a working at Lowe’s Grove Middle Emma McLaughlin (BA ’96) and Nicola Kraus the Koppenall Award for Inter- marketing position at the Dan- School in Durham, NC, with (BA ’95) published Nanny Returns, the sequel disciplinary Study at Gallatin, non Company managing the eight other fellows facilitating to The Nanny Diaries.

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