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Alumni Update
August 2023
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From Dean Chris Makaroff
Dear Alumni and Friends:
This summer, I had the opportunity to meet and spend time with some of our alumni during my travels around the country, from Florida and Atlanta to DC, Cleveland, and New York. I am always impressed by the sheer variety and scope of their careers and accomplishments since graduating from CAS and Miami, and it's always a great reminder that there is no limit to what our graduates can (and very often do) achieve with their liberal arts education.
Jay Livingston '94, CMO of Shake Shack and our 2023 alumni speaker, put it this way last May in a video interview: "As an Arts and Science major, I got to explore a lot of different areas. [...] Many of the courses I took at Miami, but also the other things that I was involved in, kind of helped me hone in on what I was really interested in, what I liked and didn't like. And, you know, ultimately most successful careers are that combination of things you're good at with things you really enjoy, and if you can find that intersection, that's where the most fulfillment lies." The stories I hear from our alumni like Jay about the various paths they took to arrive at their career success are always fascinating. Many of them echo his statement that it took a bit of trial and error, while others were fortunate enough to define their way forward from the get-go. Whichever course you have taken, I'd love to hear from you so we can highlight more of our alumni in future newsletters and on our relaunched CAS alumni website. Be sure to contact us with your stories, as we are hoping to feature more alumni in the months ahead.
In terms of future alumni, we are in the midst of preparation for the incoming Class of 2027, expected to arrive on campus on Move-in Day, Aug. 24. As always, they are an excellent, high achieving, enthusiastic group who are poised to make their mark at Miami over the next few years. If you would care to play a role in their Miami and CAS experience by mentoring, networking, visiting, providing career advice, or anything else, please let me know. Best wishes as we close out summer and head into the fall. Please keep in touch.
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| CAS Student News and Spotlights
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| CAS Alumni News and Spotlights
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20 students from Miami's Inside Washington Program, led by Annie-Laurie Blair, held an in-depth discussion at the White House with Steve Ricchetti '79 (Western), counselor to President Biden, chairman of the Biden 2020 presidential campaign, and one of Miami’s most prominent alums working in politics today. Students also participated in discussions with:
- Courtney Subramanian ’07 (Journalism and History), the White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
- Courtney Cochran ’10 (International Studies), a top staffer to House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, D-MA.
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| CAS Faculty and Staff News and Spotlights
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Liz Wilson, professor of Comparative Religion, and Rodney Coates, professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, are the first two Miami faculty scholars to be published in The Conversation, a not-for-profit media outlet, since Miami's contract began in April. They were the top authors this May for their respective articles on:
Other CAS faculty members featured (or soon to be featured) in The Conversation:
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- John Bailer, professor emeritus and former chair of Statistics, gave the banquet address at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics (video, slides) and participated in an International Statistical Literacy Project webinar. He and associate professor of Journalism Rosemary Pennington also appeared on a recent episode of Practical Significance, the American Statistical Association podcast.
- Matthew Crain, associate professor of Media and Communication, was a featured panelist at the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication event, Democratizing the Internet: Platforms, Pipes, Possibilities.
- Mack Hagood, associate professor of Media and Communication, appeared on a new episode of Tapestry from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss his research on silence, listening, and noise-canceling headphones.
- Kimberly Hamlin weighed in on NPR's "Goats and Soda" program to discuss a new study that upends the assumption that men are hunters and women are gatherers.
- Katie Johnson, professor of English, is the author of “Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway” featured in Playbill’s “8 Theatre Must-Reads for July.”
- Denise McCoskey, professor of Classics and affiliate in Black World Studies, was interviewed about the recent controversy over the casting of Cleopatra in Slate magazine.
- Nik Money, director of the Western Program and professor of Biology, gave an interview with BBC Radio 4 in London about medicinal mushrooms.
- Michele Currie Navakas, professor of English, is the author of “Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America” published in July by Princeton University Press.
- Stephen Norris, the Walter E. Havighurst professor of Russian History, is quoted in the Business Insider about Putin's Victory Day speech.
- Anna Radke, associate professor of Psychology, was featured in an interview with CBS-Local12 on "Anti-Dopamine Parenting."
- Noriko Reider, professor of Japanese, wrote about the mythological oni of Japanese folklore, often depicted in popular media, for Discover Magazine.
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