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The mission of the <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
is to serve the University of Virginia by<br />
identifying, attracting, and nurturing individuals<br />
of extraordinary intellectual range and depth<br />
who possess the highest concomitant qualities of<br />
leadership, scholarship and citizenship.<br />
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WILLIAM JOSEPH DIRIENZO (2008)<br />
EDWARD P. OWENS FELLOW<br />
Department of Astronomy<br />
University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S.)<br />
University of Virginia (M.S.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Bill has been busy researching the mysteries of star formation in<br />
the Milky Way galaxy. His major focus is the origin of the most<br />
massive stars because, even though they are rare, they have the<br />
greatest affect on their environment and their formation is the<br />
most difficult to understand. He has been preparing a paper for<br />
publication about the identification and analysis of triggered star<br />
formation in several regions. The presentation of this work won<br />
a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award for an outstanding<br />
graduate student poster at the 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical<br />
Society. Bill has begun to work in depth on his dissertation<br />
topic, the characteristics of Infrared Dark Clouds identified<br />
by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, and how that relates to<br />
the presence and type of star formation. This project will use data<br />
taken in the infrared, radio, and millimeter wavelength ranges. He<br />
has recently begun collecting data from the Combined Array for<br />
Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy in California to study the temperature, density, and chemical structure of<br />
IRDCs. Bill is involved with a program to mentor students at the Central Virginia Governor’s School for Science and Technology<br />
. He advised students working on the astrochemistry of a giant star’s wind and two star-forming regions, as well<br />
as the properties of Active Galactic Nuclei. Bill has also been advising an undergraduate <strong>Jefferson</strong> Scholar working on a<br />
project to identify Young Stellar Objects in a star-forming region and compare their infrared colors to their X-ray properties.<br />
This project is a continuation of a CVGS project from the previous year. Bill was the graduate student member of<br />
the Astronomy Department Admissions and Recruitment Committee for the past two years. He has recently completed<br />
the Teaching Resource Center’s “Tomorrow’s Professor Today” program, and successfully implemented teaching methods<br />
from the TPT program in his first solo taught course, Astronomy 1210: Introduction to the Sky and Solar System, last<br />
summer. Bill is excited to be the new Natural Sciences associate editor for the <strong>Jefferson</strong> Journal of Science and Culture.<br />
LAURA EMILY GOLDBLATT (2008)<br />
JOHN S. LILLARD FELLOW<br />
Department of English<br />
Wesleyan University (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
This past year Laura served as the president of the Graduate<br />
English Students Association. In addition to this departmental<br />
commitment, she delivered a paper at the South Atlantic Modern<br />
Language Association annual conference in Atlanta and at the biannual<br />
meeting of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists<br />
in Berkeley. This summer she will attend the Futures of American<br />
Studies Institute at Dartmouth University where she will workshop<br />
a prospective article drawn from the third chapter of her dissertation.<br />
She is also currently working on an article about representations<br />
of Native Americans on U.S. postal stamps at the turn of the<br />
twentieth-century which she is co-authoring with professor and<br />
director of Global Development Studies Program, Richard Handler.<br />
They plan to complete the article sometime in August.<br />
2012 FELLOWS SUPPLEMENT<br />
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MARY ELLEN HICKS (2008)<br />
NEWMAN FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of History<br />
University of Iowa (B.A.)<br />
University of Virginia (M.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Currently residing in Lisbon, Portugal, Mary is conducting her<br />
dissertation research on enslaved and free seamen of African descent<br />
in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Luso-phone<br />
Atlantic. Her current project expands upon recent scholarship of<br />
the African diaspora that conceptualizes the southern Atlantic<br />
Ocean as a space that united, not divided, the non-contiguous territories<br />
of Europe, West Africa, and Brazil. By focusing on seafarers<br />
and the commercial activities in which they labored and profited<br />
from, Mary hopes to reveal the sometimes surprising degree of<br />
economic agency that enslaved and free African peoples exercised<br />
in the early modern Atlantic world. Her study will also address<br />
issues of violence and coercion, ethnicity, as well as other modes<br />
of identification and belonging, and the centrality of skilled labor<br />
preformed African peoples in Portugal and Brazil. Mary is planning<br />
to continue her primary research in London, Rio de Janeiro, and<br />
Salvador, Brazil in the upcoming semester.<br />
LINDSAY PARSONS O’CONNOR (2008)<br />
IRBY CAUTHEN FELLOW<br />
Department of English<br />
Tulane University (B.A.)<br />
University of Virginia (M.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
In the fall of 2011, Lindsay served as a teaching assistant for an<br />
undergraduate survey of modern and contemporary literature in<br />
English and presented a paper about William Faulkner’s portrayal<br />
of the 1927 Mississippi flood at the South Atlantic Modern Language<br />
Association’s annual conference. Her dissertation prospectus<br />
was approved in the Spring of 2012 so she has begun work<br />
on waste and disaster in 20th century American literature and<br />
culture. Lindsay was part of the 2011-12 class of Praxis Fellows at<br />
the U.Va. Library’s <strong>Scholars</strong>’ Lab, where she has been learning web<br />
design in a digital humanities setting. This summer Lindsay will<br />
again participate in the Futures of American Studies Institute at<br />
Dartmouth College and will continue to build design skills as part<br />
of the U.Va. Writing Program’s Batten Project.<br />
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HAROLD SMITH REEVES (2008)<br />
ERIC M. HEINER FELLOW<br />
Department of Classics<br />
Princeton University (B.A.)<br />
Brooksville, Florida<br />
Harold spent the past academic year preparing for his Ph.D.<br />
comprehensive exams, a collection of 4 written examinations<br />
on Latin and Greek language and literature, and a two hour oral<br />
examination. He passed all five examinations and is now beginning<br />
to define a topic for his dissertation.<br />
CAROLYN BEANS (2009)<br />
TERRENCE D. DANIELS FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Biology<br />
Penn State University (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
This past year Carolyn began her dissertation research through<br />
an investigation of the impact of an invasive species, Showy<br />
Jewelweed, on the evolution of the closely-related native species,<br />
Spotted Jewelweed. Her preliminary results suggest that the<br />
invasive competitor strongly out competes the native species for<br />
pollinators. The competitor also alters the evolutionary trajectory<br />
of floral traits such as shape and color in the native plant. Carolyn<br />
recently won a grant from the Scientific Research Society Sigma<br />
Xi to continue this work. She will present her current findings<br />
this summer at the microMORPH workshop at Harvard’s Arnold<br />
Arboretum as well as at the annual Evolution meeting in Ottawa,<br />
Canada. In addition to her dissertation work, Carolyn has also<br />
studied the spread of the invasive species Japanese Honeysuckle<br />
in the United States. Her work suggests that in areas of high human<br />
influence such as cities, Japanese Honeysuckle can survive<br />
even in suboptimal climates. She recently published this research<br />
in the journal Biological Invasions. Carolyn has also continued her<br />
volunteer work with U.Va.’s Women in Math and Science by teaching<br />
science lessons to kindergarten and first grade students at Red<br />
Hill Elementary School.<br />
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BENJAMIN KAGAN BRADY (2009)<br />
ERIC P. AND ELIZABETH R. JOHNSON FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of History<br />
Princeton University (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Ben has completed his final year of coursework and passed his<br />
comprehensive exams. He is beginning work on a dissertation<br />
examining Europe’s embrace of U.S. legal doctrines after World<br />
War II.<br />
GABRIELLE KATHRYN LEE MILLER (2009)<br />
D.N. BATTEN FOUNDATION FELLOW<br />
Department of History<br />
University of Notre Dame (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Gaby presented the paper, “In Defense of Motherhood: Merce<br />
Rodoreda’s La plaza del diamante” this spring at the Kentucky<br />
Foreign Language Conference. She also won the Spanish Department’s<br />
2012 GTA Outstanding Teaching Award. In June, she will<br />
be teaching an undergraduate Spanish course at U.Va. She looks<br />
forward to traveling in Spain in July. Gaby has one more year of<br />
coursework before she begins work on her dissertation. As part<br />
of her comprehensive exams in spring of 2013, she plans to work<br />
on a year long project, directed by Professor Randolph, which will<br />
focus on contemporary Spanish novels published in the past 20<br />
years.<br />
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SARAH ANNE O’HALLORAN (2009)<br />
EDGAR SHANNON FELLOW IN MUSIC<br />
Department of Music<br />
University College Cork (B.A.)<br />
University College Cork (M.Phil.)<br />
Queens University Belfast (M.A.)<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
This fall Sarah began co-hosting The Listening Room on WTJU, a<br />
show focused on contemporary art music. In recent months her<br />
music has been performed by the Voxare String Quartet and the<br />
MICE Ensemble at U.Va. It has also been played at George Mason<br />
University as part of the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic<br />
Regional Conference and at Stony Brook University as part of their<br />
symposium Encountering Data. Sarah has presented her research<br />
on avant garde singer Tanya Tagaq at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of<br />
the Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference at College of<br />
William and Mary, College Music Society Mid Atlantic Regional<br />
Conference at George Mason University and International Alliance<br />
of Women in Music Congress at Northern Arizona University.<br />
JASON A. PAN (2009)<br />
TAYLOR-TYREE FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Law<br />
University of Virginia (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
As a triple Hoo Jason has spent this year trying to strengthen the<br />
linkages between various communities on-grounds. In particular<br />
he continues to build on his passion from college for mentoring<br />
and tutoring. He was elected to serve as vice president of Mentoring<br />
for Legal Advisory Workshops for Undergraduate Students<br />
Mentoring, which mentors undergraduates on their law school applications.<br />
He will help run the Darden U.Va. Mentoring program,<br />
which leverages the experience of Darden students to give career<br />
advice to other U.Va. students. Jason was elected to the board<br />
of the Asian and Asian Pacific American Alumni Network and will<br />
serve on the committee overseeing the alumni-student mentoring<br />
program. As a J.D./M.B.A., Jason enjoys his studies of the intersection<br />
between business and the law and seeks to apply it in a<br />
practical way. He joined Darden Capital Management and will help<br />
manage the Rotunda Fund, which has a sustainability focus and<br />
$800,000 assets under management. Jason finds the strong<br />
overlay of policy in this sector appealing and hopes this experience will refine the way he thinks about how policy should<br />
be crafted and implemented. This summer he will intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of<br />
Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation. He is very thankful to receive a grant from the Darden Non-Profit Internship Fund<br />
for living expenses. Jason also served as an assistant director of Operations for the E* Society, which promotes entrepreneurship<br />
at the Law School, and as a research assistant to Professor David C. Smith, a professor at the McIntire School of<br />
Commerce. He participated during the 2012 <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong> Selection Weekend as an essay reader and gave a talk on<br />
international investment law during the Fellows Symposium.<br />
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CORLETT WOLFE WOOD (2009)<br />
H. EUGENE LOCKHART FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Biology<br />
Swarthmore College (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Corlett spent the past year analyzing her first summer’s worth of<br />
field data for her dissertation. In the summer of 2011 she worked<br />
with an undergraduate collaborator to determine whether beetles<br />
specialize on a single food resource. Using genetic data from over<br />
600 beetles that were collected from three species of fungus,<br />
they found that beetles migrate freely among fungi, indicating<br />
that individual beetles do not specialize on a single resource. This<br />
summer Corlett is conducting a second study with another undergraduate<br />
collaborator to extend these results. They will measure<br />
the strength of natural and sexual selection on beetles living on<br />
each of these three species of fungi to determine whether there<br />
is an advantage to resource specialization in this species. Corlett<br />
recently received a Student Research Award from the American<br />
Society of Naturalists to fund this project. Finally, Corlett is looking<br />
forward to serving as co-editor-in-Chief for the <strong>Jefferson</strong> Journal of<br />
Science and Culture with Sarah O’Halloran this coming year.<br />
DANIEL ELLIOT FRANZ (2010)<br />
PAUL B. BARRINGER FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Mathematics<br />
Kenyon College (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Daniel successfully passed his qualifying exams in the fall and<br />
enjoyed his first year of teaching, finding it very enriching and<br />
rewarding. This summer he will be doing reading on combinatorial<br />
group theory and p-adic analyticity to prepare for doing research<br />
in the fall.<br />
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ANNE MARIE GUARNERA (2010)<br />
JOHN A. BLACKBURN FELLOW<br />
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese<br />
Bryn Mawr College (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
At the beginning of this school year, Anne was appointed to<br />
serve as a preceptor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and<br />
Portuguese. In this leadership position she works to oversee and<br />
coordinate the work of all Spanish Teaching Assistants teaching<br />
the department’s Intermediate Spanish classes. She will continue<br />
to serve as a preceptor in the 2012-2013 school year as well. Anne<br />
presented a portion of her M.A. thesis at this year’s <strong>Jefferson</strong><br />
Fellows Symposium in February. She passed all eight of her M.A.<br />
comprehensive exams in March and finished her thesis, entitled<br />
“La mexicanidad reciclada de Pedro Ángel Palou,” in April. Her<br />
thesis examines Palou’s postmodern treatment of Mexican national<br />
identity as it emerges in his most recent trilogy of historical<br />
novels. Anne was awarded a Summer Language Institute Fellowship<br />
by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, which she will<br />
combine with a grant from Middlebury College in order to attend<br />
the Middlebury Language Summer Institute in Portuguese this<br />
summer. She is excited to expand her research to contemporary<br />
Brazilian poetry and fiction.<br />
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL IRWIN (2010)<br />
OLIVE B. AND FRANKLIN C. MAC KRELL FELLOW<br />
Department of Astronomy<br />
University of Pittsburgh (B.S.)<br />
Irwin, Pennsylvania<br />
This January Chris successfully passed his second qualifying exam<br />
and was admitted to PhD candidacy in the Astronomy Department.<br />
He has continued his research of supernovae--the extreme<br />
deaths of massive stars--which combines theoretical work with<br />
analysis of data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This year<br />
Chris co-authored two supernova papers in the Astrophysical<br />
Journal Letters: “X-Rays from Supernova Shocks in Dense Mass<br />
Loss” and “Strong Evolution of X-Ray Absorption in the Type IIn<br />
Supernova SN 2010jl.” A third paper on another X-ray bright<br />
supernova, SN 2006jd, was recently submitted to the Astrophysical<br />
Journal as well. In addition, Chris has worked with <strong>Jefferson</strong><br />
Scholar Eda Herzog-Vitto on a Fellow-Scholar research project,<br />
studying how pulsars interact with their surroundings. As part of<br />
his fall coursework, Chris had the opportunity to visit several major<br />
observatories in Arizona and New Mexico, including the Large<br />
Binocular Telescope, the Very Large Array, and Apache Point<br />
Observatory, where he received training on the 3.5-meter telescope. He also served as a TA for an astronomy lab course<br />
that introduces students to small telescopes and the night sky. This summer Chris will teach an introductory course<br />
about stars and galaxies, and plans to study gamma-ray bursts--the most luminous events in the universe--and their<br />
connection to the brightest known supernovae.<br />
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REED A. JOHNSON (2010)<br />
JOHN S. LILLARD FELLOW<br />
Department of Slavic<br />
Wesleyan University (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Since last year’s report Reed has continued pursuing his interest<br />
in literary translation, and this spring will see the publication of<br />
two of his own Russian-to-English translations along with a critical<br />
essay in the literary journal Meridian. As part of his goal of introducing<br />
American audiences to little-known Russian writers, he has<br />
focused on the work of the author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, an<br />
early Soviet writer whose work lay undiscovered in state archives<br />
for nearly a half century, and who is only now receiving critical<br />
and popular attention. Alongside these publications Reed has also<br />
presented on Krzhizhanovsky’s work, first at the Annual <strong>Jefferson</strong><br />
Fellows Symposium, and later at the Southern Slavic Conference<br />
in Savannah, Georgia, where he gave a conference paper entitled<br />
“Man Against Time: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of<br />
the Future.” Reed has concurrently been working on translating<br />
a more recent Russian author, a young writer named Vsevolod<br />
Benigsen, who has been nominated for numerous literary prizes<br />
and is one of the most intriguing writers working in Russia today. Reed has had the opportunity to work directly with<br />
Benigsen--who speaks fluent English--on a translation of a short story, and hopes their friendly collaboration will continue<br />
into the future. Besides his translation activity Reed has been hard at work on coursework, and this year passed<br />
his comprehensive exams with distinction and will receive a master’s degree in May 2012. Along with his departmental<br />
colleagues, he organized U.Va.’s Third Annual Slavic Forum, where he presented a paper on a Soviet writer of the Gulag,<br />
Varlam Shalamov, entitled “One Thousand and One Kolyma Nights: Shalamov and Scheherazade.” In addition Reed has<br />
greatly enjoyed teaching undergraduates in second-year Russian classes this past year, and will continue teaching Russian<br />
language for his third year in the fellowship.<br />
STEPHANIE RACHEL BERNHARD (2011)<br />
GREGORY L. AND NANCY H. CURL FELLOW<br />
Department of English<br />
Brown University (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Stephanie is spending summer 2012 in Rome to study Latin<br />
poetry. She is a contributing blogger and features writer for Full<br />
Stop Magazine.<br />
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FRANK JOSEPH CIRILLO (2011)<br />
JOHN L. NAU III FELLOW<br />
Department of History<br />
Yale University (B.A.)<br />
Rye, New York<br />
In his first year as a graduate student in the History Department,<br />
Frank presented a recent paper regarding the memory of Abraham<br />
Lincoln at two graduate conferences, and he also had a book<br />
review published in a graduate history journal. Frank is currently<br />
working on exploring how abolitionists invoked the memory of<br />
Thomas <strong>Jefferson</strong> before and during the American Civil War. He<br />
will spend the summer as a research and reporting intern for the<br />
local public radio history program, BackStory with the American<br />
History Guys.<br />
ANNE ELAINE DUNCKEL (2011)<br />
PAUL T. JONES II FELLOW<br />
Department of Environmental Sciences<br />
University of Texas (B.S.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Anne is currently active in her National Science <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
Graduate Research Fellowship tenure for her Master’s thesis.<br />
Her Masters work is focused on environmental changes to the<br />
denitrification N2O/N2 ratio in agricultural stream sediments on<br />
the Eastern Shore of Virginia.<br />
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ASHLEIGH DAWN ELSER (2011)<br />
MARC AND NANCY SHRIER FELLOW<br />
Department of Religious Studies<br />
Prairie Bible College (B.A.)<br />
Yale (M.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
After spending the summer of 2011 studying at Tel Aviv University<br />
in Israel, Ashleigh stepped into her first year of coursework in<br />
the Religious Studies Department. She was selected as a Rachel<br />
Winer Manin Interdisciplinary Fellow of Jewish Studies in the fall<br />
and during the spring semester she presented a paper at the Mid-<br />
Atlantic Meetings of the American Academy of Religion.<br />
LAUREN K. REYNOLDS (2011)<br />
WILLIAM AND CAROLYN POLK FELLOW<br />
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese<br />
The University of Iowa (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
During the summer of 2012 Lauren will attend El Colegio de<br />
Mexico to study contemporary Mexican culture. A Summer Research<br />
Grant from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and<br />
research funds from the <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> made this<br />
opportunity possible.<br />
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LINDSAY MARIE ROBERTS (2011)<br />
THE SCHENCK LAW FELLOW<br />
Department of Law<br />
Edinboro U. of PA. (B.I.S.)<br />
University of Scranton (M.S.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Lindsay spent a portion of winter break working for Legal Aid<br />
Services in Charleston, South Carolina. She had the opportunity<br />
to work with and for current and prospective clients under the<br />
supervision of an experienced attorney. Lindsay also joined the<br />
Virginia Sports and Entertainment Journal this spring, and is enjoying<br />
the articles and content after being a collegiate athlete herself,<br />
while also expanding upon her legal writing skills.<br />
JOCELYN RACHEL ROHRBACH (2011)<br />
HARRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOW<br />
Department of Classics<br />
Catholic Univ. of America (B.A.)<br />
Washington University (M.A.)<br />
St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Jocelyn will be studying this summer for her Master’s exams in<br />
Greek literature, and in the preliminary stages of her master’s<br />
paper. She will also be working to increase her reading proficiency<br />
in German.<br />
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JESSE I. ROSENTHAL (2011)<br />
PETER AND EADDO KIERNAN DARDEN FELLOW<br />
Department of Darden<br />
University of Chicago (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
While also surviving his first year at Darden, Jesse was elected<br />
president of the Darden Health Care Club and was selected by<br />
his peers for a leadership position in Community Consultants<br />
of Darden, a student-led club which offers consulting services<br />
for small businesses and non-profits in Charlottesville. He will<br />
be interning this summer at the San Francisco office of Bain &<br />
Company.<br />
ROBERTO I. ARMENGOL (2012)<br />
JEFFERSON ARTS AND SCIENCES<br />
DISSERTATION YEAR FELLOW<br />
Department of Anthropology<br />
University of Delaware (B.A.)<br />
University of Virginia (M.A)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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CHARLES EDSEL COTHERMAN (2012)<br />
HILLIARD FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Religious Studies<br />
Grove City College (B.A.)<br />
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (M.A.)<br />
Knox, Pennsylvania<br />
ADAM JAMES FALLON (2012)<br />
LAURA S. BAILEY FELLOW<br />
Department of Physics<br />
University of Oklahoma (B.A.)<br />
University of Oklahoma (B.S.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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ROBERT BENJAMIN GORHAM (2012)<br />
EDGAR SHANNON FELLOWS IN ART HISTORY<br />
Department of Art History<br />
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.)<br />
University of Arizona at Tucson (M.A.)<br />
Durham, North Carolina<br />
JONATHAN GRINSPAN (2012)<br />
JEFFERSON ARTS AND SCIENCES<br />
DISSERTATION YEAR FELLOW<br />
Department of History<br />
Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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ASHLEY ROBIN HURST (2012)<br />
GROUNDBREAKERS FELLOW<br />
Department of Religious Studies<br />
University of Florida, Gainesville (B.A.)<br />
Yale University (M.Div.)<br />
New Haven, Connecticut<br />
KATHERINE ELENA KOOPMAN (2012)<br />
MELVILLE FOUNDATION DARDEN FELLOW<br />
Department of Darden<br />
Harvard (B.A.)<br />
Arlington, Virginia<br />
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ANDREW H. KRITZER (2012)<br />
JOHN L. COLLEY JR. DARDEN FELLOW<br />
Department of Darden<br />
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (B.A.)<br />
New York, New York<br />
MICHAEL CHASE LEVINSON (2012)<br />
HAROLD J. AND JACQUELYN F. RODRIGUEZ<br />
FAMILY FELLOW<br />
Department of Economics<br />
University of South Carolina -- Columbia (B.S.)<br />
Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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BENJAMIN W. MOHLIE (2012)<br />
W.L. LYONS BROWN III DARDEN FELLOW<br />
Department of Darden<br />
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - NY (B.S.)<br />
Belmont, Massachusetts<br />
ALICIA NOBLES (2012)<br />
OLIVE B. AND FRANKLIN C. MAC KRELL FELLOW<br />
Department of Engineering<br />
Georgia Inst Technology (B.S.)<br />
Atlanta, Georgia<br />
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SARAH G. NOLAN (2012)<br />
SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LAW FELLOW<br />
Department of Law<br />
College of William & Mary (B.A.)<br />
University of Wisconsin (M.A.)<br />
Madison, Wisconsin<br />
MATTHEW PAUL JULIUS ORESKA (2012)<br />
KENNETH L. BAZZLE FELLOW<br />
Department of Environmental Sciences<br />
College of William and Mary (B.S.)<br />
University of Cambridge (M.Phil.)<br />
Henrico, Virginia<br />
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FELLOWS IN RESIDENCE 2012-13<br />
AARON MICHAEL REEDY (2012)<br />
JAMES H. AND ELIZABETH W. WRIGHT FELLOW<br />
Department of Biology<br />
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (B.A.)<br />
National-Louis University (M.A.)<br />
Chicago, Illinois<br />
For the past seven years Aaron Reedy taught at Thomas Kelly High<br />
School in Chicago, where he used innovative projects to connect<br />
his classroom to the wider world of science. In pursuit of great<br />
education, he sea-kayaked down the Mississippi River, immersed<br />
kids in field studies of reptile reproductive biology and climate<br />
change, and carried out professional-level science in the classroom.<br />
Right now he is a team member on a National Geographic/<br />
Waitts grant to investigate the role that the sex ratio plays in evolution<br />
and population growth in island populations of lizards. At<br />
his blog,wideworldscience.blogspot.com, he helps bring field biology<br />
into classrooms and shares the work of his students with the<br />
world. Reedy recently spoke at TED 2012 on lines of evidence used<br />
by evolutionary biology.Together with legendary animator Candy<br />
Kugel of Buzz Co. studios, he wrote and narrated an animated<br />
video lesson on sex determination systems in the animal kingdom,<br />
for ed.ted.com, the new TED education website.<br />
JASON SCOTT REMER (2012)<br />
PETER AND CRISLER QUICK FELLOW<br />
Department of Engineering<br />
George Mason University (B.S.)<br />
George Mason University (M.S.)<br />
Fairfax, Virginia<br />
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